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GRASSLEY SEEKS ANSWERS TO FBI’S AMERITHRAX INVESTIGATION (Anthrax)
Grassley's office ^ | August 7, 2008

Posted on 08/08/2008 11:44:22 AM PDT by Shermy

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1 posted on 08/08/2008 11:44:23 AM PDT by Shermy
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To: TrebleRebel; jpl; Mitchell; Allan; Calpernia; Stentor; okie01; blackdog; The Invisible Hand; ...

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2 posted on 08/08/2008 11:45:14 AM PDT by Shermy (OOOOOOObama where the waffles come sweeping down the plains)
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To: Shermy
F.B.I. Presents Anthrax Case, Saying Scientist Acted Alone

Anthrax : a REAL investigation tells another story (peer reviewed study published in 2007)

3 posted on 08/08/2008 11:49:22 AM PDT by Shermy (OOOOOOObama where the waffles come sweeping down the plains)
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To: Shermy

Grassley has been on a witchhunt against the FBI for many years. I understand he has, in some cases had a detrimental affect on some sensitive cases

Why?


4 posted on 08/08/2008 11:51:23 AM PDT by elpadre (nation)
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To: Shermy

They paid Hatfill so they wouldn’t have to answer these questions.


5 posted on 08/08/2008 11:51:43 AM PDT by weegee (Hi there.)
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To: Shermy
According to family members, FBI agents publicly confronted and accused Dr. Ivins of the attacks, showed pictures of the victims to his daughter, and offered the $2.5 million reward to his son in the months leading up to his suicide.

Wow. This is disgusting.

Everything about the way this investigation has been handled since Day 1 has been reprehensible.

6 posted on 08/08/2008 11:52:57 AM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Best. Press Secretary. Ever. ~~ RIP, Tony)
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To: elpadre

“I understand he has, in some cases had a detrimental affect on some sensitive cases”

“Detrimental effect” - does that mean embarassment from incompetence being exposed?

I think people here could add numerous more questions.

For one, show us photos of the actual anthrax used in the attacks.

Two, state when Social Worker Duley first cooperated with the FBI.

Three, did Dr. David Irwin also cooperate with the FBI and starting when.


7 posted on 08/08/2008 11:56:57 AM PDT by Shermy (OOOOOOObama where the waffles come sweeping down the plains)
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To: weegee

If Hatfill had committed suicide, the case would have been closed and pinned on him.

It looks like Ivins was more cooperative. It’s a little smelly.


8 posted on 08/08/2008 11:58:10 AM PDT by swain_forkbeard (Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

That’s because the attack probably originated in Saddem’s Iraq and not in Maryland.


9 posted on 08/08/2008 12:00:23 PM PDT by CyberSpartacus
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To: Shermy
I'm really getting tired of the BS I'm getting from this government.

Between Muller and Hayden I'm starting to wonder, "Where's Larry?"

10 posted on 08/08/2008 12:10:10 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (Grovelnator Schwarzenkaiser, fashionable fascism one charade at a time.)
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To: TrebleRebel; jpl; ZACKandPOOK; drzz; Carry_Okie; Mitchell; Battle Axe

TR posted again yesterday the info how “Dugway” couldn’t reverse engineer the stuff over 18 months, etc. The recent news has Ivins’ superiors talking about “another” piece of equipment and that Ivins couldn’t have made it.

Got me thinking. What if the difficulties Dugway had in recreating the “process” was that the FBI restricted their research to use only equipment available at Ft. Detrick to Hatifll (or Ivins)? E.g., no use of a mill. IOW, the FBI was first interested in proving the stuff could have been made at Ft. Detrick?


11 posted on 08/08/2008 12:14:00 PM PDT by Shermy (OOOOOOObama where the waffles come sweeping down the plains)
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To: elpadre
Grassley has been on a witchhunt against the FBI for many years. I understand he has, in some cases had a detrimental affect on some sensitive cases

Did you even read the questions?

They were very detailed and in context to the situation.

I believe Congress has oversight on the FBI, is that not so?

So please explain why this is a witch-hunt?
12 posted on 08/08/2008 12:15:42 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (GOP: If you reward bad behavior all you get is more bad behavior.)
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To: Carry_Okie

How do officials believe Ivins made the anthrax? The FBI says Ivins used his lab to convert anthrax spores into powdered anthrax, but no proof has been presented that he had the equipment or the expertise to do so.

“I’m waiting for it to be shown that the quantity and the quality of the powders in the anthrax letters could have been produced in those suites” at Fort Detrick, said W. Russell Byrne, who retired from Fort Detrick in 2003 and was Ivins’ supervisor from 1998 to 2000. “I don’t know how to make the stuff,” he said.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation/bal-anthrax0807,0,4430001.story?track=rss


13 posted on 08/08/2008 12:25:21 PM PDT by Shermy (OOOOOOObama where the waffles come sweeping down the plains)
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To: Shermy
Sure.

And we are supposed to believe them after all the other FBI Lab false results !!

14 posted on 08/08/2008 12:27:18 PM PDT by brityank (The more I learn about the Constitution, the more I realise this Government is UNconstitutional !!)
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To: elpadre
Right... Grassley's the problem with this clustf**k of an investigation.

How much has he had to pay out in settlements for his incompetence/corruption anyway? How many perfectly innocent people has he destroyed.

15 posted on 08/08/2008 12:27:54 PM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Best. Press Secretary. Ever. ~~ RIP, Tony)
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Amazing, isn’t it? Virtually all the real experts in the field say that this was the most incredible product they had ever seen, it was so sophisticated our government couldn’t even reproduce it, yet this one guy supposedly did it by himself in a few nights of overtime after 9/11.


16 posted on 08/08/2008 12:28:50 PM PDT by jpl ("Present." - Barack Obama)
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To: Shermy
I haven't really followed this case. I was merely questioning the use of a ball mill strictly as an engineering problem when spray drying gives good particle size control albeit it is more difficult to contain.
17 posted on 08/08/2008 12:30:13 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (Grovelnator Schwarzenkaiser, fashionable fascism one charade at a time.)
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To: CyberSpartacus

That exactly right. That’s why this investigation has been completely politicized. Saddam’s WMD and terror ties are both confirmed if the truth ever gets out.

Ivins had as much to do with those attacks as you or I.


18 posted on 08/08/2008 12:32:22 PM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Best. Press Secretary. Ever. ~~ RIP, Tony)
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To: Shermy

Answers, Shmanswers, can’t you recognize the spoken truth for what it is.

Dr. Ivins be da “anthrax” man.


19 posted on 08/08/2008 12:43:18 PM PDT by swarthyguy (Osama Freedom Day: 2500 or so since September 11 2001! That's SIX +years, Dubya.)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

At this why would ANYONE want to cover up any purported ties of anthrax to Saddam. Who benefits from that.

OTOH, who benefits from another lone gunman being nailed as the anthrax perp after 7 years of mystery?


20 posted on 08/08/2008 12:45:49 PM PDT by swarthyguy (Osama Freedom Day: 2500 or so since September 11 2001! That's SIX +years, Dubya.)
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