A lawyer not being entirely honest? You are kidding!
But, just for the heck of it, let’s parse what the lawyer actually said. Does “family” include only immediate family or parents and all siblings who were not living together with Bruce Ivins? And am I just not seeing the “whole” quoted in “his friends and family”? And is “estranged brother” that had not seen Bruce Ivins for 20 years and said he “was not sorry to see him dead” really a “family”?
And do we really need to be like some in FBI and nitpick a “family” to “prove” that his lawyer “isn’t being entirely honest”? I’ll take it as a given.
It’s not “some in the FBI” nitpicking his famly to prove a lawyer was lying, it was me.
I just made a comment that pointed out a fact, no need to get all emotional about it.
Of greater concern is an apparent relationship to Dr. Meryl Nass, and choice of lawyer. Ivins may have been responsible for putting some of the heat on Hatfill and others; that and a relationship with a peculiar leftwing Cuban-indoctrinated no-account anti-vaccine Dr. from Maine, who belongs to a little outfit called Physicians for Social Responsibility, [see Win Without War] an organization that was aiding the regime of Saddam Hussein on the matter of sanctions, should raise an eyebrow at minimum, particularly because while Nass’s friends on the left were taking potshots at other scientists, they overlooked both Ivins and al Timimi.
It may be Nass overstated her familiarity with Ivins. That’s what I thought at first, and I assumed he was getting the Hatfill treatment and she was just sticking her nose in to promote her website. But that may not be the case. I suggest taking a breath before automatically assuming he’s another Hatfill getting railroaded by the eeeeevil FBI. More than the FBI Hatfill was attacked by the left.
I’m not sure about Ivins and he shouldn’t be assumed to be anything at this point. One thing I don’t believe is that if he is guilty he was alone. I don’t think this was a one-person job, and I don’t think an anti-abortion stance was the motive, though if he is guilty that will be the press’s angle on it, rather than on his other politics. I have thought all along that the anthrax attackers were linked to the anti-vaccine effort, and a true link to Nass should- pardon the pun- raise red flags.