There is indeed a lot to analyze in the Fox News email. For starters - the email implies that the total cast of unknown Detrick characters involved in some way in the email is at least 6. All of these people have an identity. 6 is a big number, and this secret is not going to remain secret for ever. And when the secret is out Ed can plan is next book “To Err is Human - Why My First Anthrax Book Was Completely Wrong”.
Cast of unknown characters:
(1) The sender of the email
(2) The recipient of the email (of course, could be more than 1 person)
(3) The person who looked at the samples the FBI had produced and said that the best match was to the powder made by Mr Redacted.
(4) Mr Redacted himself.
(5) The person whose knees got shaky when told by the person in (3) that the best match was to Mr Redacted’s powder.
(6) The Commander referred to as the “worst Commander”.
“Detrick characters” should be revised to be “linked to Detrick” — the three referenced in the text of the email are only “linked to Detrick,” not at Detrick. See FoxNews report. See also contract with USAMRIID involving NIH-supplied Delta Ames and both DARPA grants (then the biggest biodefense award in history).
One is leading anthrax scientist Ken. One is former deputy commander (Acting Commander for a few months) Charles. One is Ali. See recently unsealed memo in Al-Timimi prosecution.
Neither Ken nor Charles are suspected of being at all complicitous. They are a necessary and logical focus only because they are the victims of the theft of the biochemistry information. See Mueller November 2007 speech.