I agree and I don't either, but the majority of people who don't follow this sort of stuff as closely as we do here at F.R. will generally swallow most of what they hear.
Most people are just going to assume that this guy was guilty all the way. But had Hatfill given up and committed suicide years ago instead of deciding to stand and fight, would people have believed the same thing about him? Almost certainly so.
Already, friends and colleagues of Ivins are beginning to come out to say that they don't believe he had anything to do with this.
They'll swallow what they hear and, worse, they'll dismiss what they don't hear on the nightly news out of hand.
Try telling your Average Joe/Jane that Mohammed Atta tried to get a $650,000 loan from the Department of Agriculture to turn a twin-engine passenger plane into a crop-duster, or that he lived within three miles of the American Media building in Boca Raton, or that he was prescibed Cipro after going to a doctor with red, swollen hands. Try telling them that Ahmed Alhaznawi was treated for cutaneous anthrax in Fort Lauderdale in June, 2001 (Alhaznawi had also attempted to get a crop-dusting plane that summer). They'll look at you like you're talking about some fabled swamp monster.
I think it's pretty obvious the hijackers were trained at Salman Pak and given Iraqi anthrax. And if that truth is ever known, the case against the Iraq war and the entire democrat left crumbles like a house of cards. That's why this is the most politicized murder investigation since the Kennedy assassination. An entire political party's fortunes are dependent on one, and only one, outcome.
A counselor filed court papers last week saying Ivins had threatened her, and had had homicidal tendencies since graduate school, and described him as sociopathic as well. Now being reported in the media, and Smoking Gun claims to have a copy ,which is viewable on their site.