One more time ~ the FBI does not believe its own thesis; else they'd paid me off. That has not happened.
There are several things going on here. One is the anthrax source. Another is who done it. A third is where did they get that interesting address set in that format.
It was remarkably easy to nail down the address set ~ it came from the June 2001 issue of the Jews For Life newsletter/magazine. Doc Ivins wife appears to have been a member.
The FBI knows that.
This happens to have been a remarkable clue because, if followed (just look at the mailing list for the organization and start visiting everybody with a biochemist in the home) the FBI would have been ON THE SCENE of where they are now stuck way back in 2001.
Once there they'd either had the goods on Doc Ivins, or been able to get to some associate of his that may have been involved. If he'd taken the periodical to work and it'd disappeared, that'd be a clue. If the periodical was sitting on the dining room table that'd been another clue.
A vast number of false leads would have been discounted instantly ~ and that means the false leads provided by Barbara Hatch Rosenberg and her running dog lackeys on the Left at Columbia University would have not gotten in the way of the investigation.
I have no doubt the FBI could have done a better job without some folks running interference to protect their friends from investigation.
So, yeah, I remember this. And I'm still waiting for the FBI to let me know where to get my check.
I can still identify the guy in the middle hovered over the sink in 103 Ash House on the campus of Iowa State University on the day that the woman across the table got a package addressed to a Pakistani from Faisalabad. She thought it had seeds. That Pak never graduated but had a roommie who had worked on genetically engineered corn. The corn engineer had left the US and then returned to teach at a University in Michigan for fall semester of 2001.
I sent two Navy intel guys up to Iowa State to nose around and this corn guy was there at the time; the head of a plant genomics lab, and he split after that.
When the Postal Inspectors interview me in 2005, he had gone back to India and was selling seeds.
The sores that I saw were consistent with the runny sores from the mailing.
Muawiyah has done great work, he should have his share, but I'd like a few dollars for my eleven years of work too. I'll use it to take Muawiyah to dinner!
Yes, we are still here with the same story and one day....there will be a knock at the door....maybe they will just bust in and hand us those checks.
In Susan Smith's case, they assumed that the car would only float so far. So that is how far they looked under the water. They got the info out of some book that the car would float x distance. When in fact her car was a different make and was more water tight and floated much farther than they looked.
So when they couldn't find the car at distance x, they went off on the black male carjacker deal and it took them in a direction that was wrong.
In anthrax, since it was Ames or genotype 62, they wrongly assumed it came from USAMRIID. They needed to look at all the collections of anthrax to see who else had it.
But Iowa State University destroyed all their samples 2 days after it was determined to be Ames. Scientifically a huge no-no. I say they were destroying evidence that they held copies of it.
Now did the perp who stole it from ISU know which one he took? Probably not. Just reached in and Murphys Law took over.
They were trying to steal it and lo and behold they already had it. Someone is laughing.
If they had those testers that can pick up one spore or so, they should go to the ISU library and find out which books the woman with the sore checked out. There was a small stack of book sitting on the table. I can still see them. Some small little books, almost like children's books, but maybe monographs.
They also need to look at all the records of the students who lived in her apartment or in 103 Ash house. Did anyone else come down with it??
Physician thought it was a spider or bug bite.