Anthrax Attacks: Inside Job says FBI (& History Channel)

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[quote=“Vorkosigan”]Jscholl, you should spend an hour reading it. [/quote]Pondering one of his points…[quote]They have no proof of Dr. Ivins’ innocence[/quote]Same applicability to the previous two accused suspects, with the same conclusiveness/reliability of guilt.

[quote][ul][li] The FBI may have concluded Fort Detrick scientist Bruce Ivins was responsible for the 2001 anthrax attacks, but many others aren’t convinced.[/li]
[li] Jeffrey Adamovicz, former chief of bacteriology who supervised Ivins’ work at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, said he found little new information in the FBI’s final report.[/li]
[li] “The evidence is still very circumstantial and unconvincing as a whole,” Adamovicz wrote in an e-mail. “I’m curious as to why they closed the case while the (National Academy of Science) review is still ongoing. Is it because the review is going unfavorable for the FBI?”[/li]
[li] “There is an assumption by the FBI that the spores could have only been prepared in the week before each mailing. This is a fatal error in logic,” Adamovicz wrote in an e-mail … focusing on Ivins’ September 2001 hours was irrelevant, since the anthrax spores that were mailed out could have been made as early as 1997.[/li]
[li] Adamovicz said no forensic evidence — such as fingerprints or strands of hair — was ever found that links Ivins to the letters.[/li]
[li] The evidence in the report is less convincing, such as a section about a hidden message in the anthrax letters. Some of the As and Ts appear to be bolded; the letters spell out the genetic code for three proteins, whose names could be abbreviated to PAT or, using the proteins’ single letter designators, spell FNY. Investigators said Ivins was obsessed with a coworker named Pat and had a well-known hatred of New York.[/li]
[li] “While I admit this is an interesting theory, that is all it is,” Adamovicz said.[/li][/ul]

compiled from here[/quote]
Maybe Ed’s lists of /facts/ “The facts say that Dr. Ivins was the anthrax mailer” may see revision in the future. No big deal.

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As I said, spend some time there.

Vorkosigan

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More from the man who supervised Ivins, explaining how Ivins could not have been the Anthrax murderer we’re told to believe.

[quote]A microbiologist who supervised the work of accused anthrax killer Bruce E. Ivins explained to a National Academy of Sciences panel Thursday why the arithmetic of growing anthrax didn’t add up to Ivins’ mailing deadly spores in fall 2001.

“Impossible,” said Dr. Henry S. Heine… told the 16-member panel that Ivins would have had to grow as many as 10 trillion spores, an astronomical amount that couldn’t have gone unnoticed by his colleagues.

According to FBI calculations, Ivins accomplished this working after-hours… Ivins logged 34 more hours in the B3 suite than his combined total for the previous seven months.

“That’s more than 8,000 hours (close to a year) short of what he would have needed to grow the anthrax,”…
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Because of an FBI gag order, Heine said he was unable to discuss these details until he left his job…
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That doesn’t exonerate Ivins, Heine conceded, but he said Ivins’ guilt is also far from certain. The spores in the anthrax letters were in a dry powder form that spread easily.

“When you dry spores, they fly everywhere and you can’t see 'em,” said Heine. “Had Bruce made it during all those late nights in the hot suite, we would’ve been his first victims.”

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More info in the article, making pretty good reasons to flush the FBI’s (and Obama’s?) conclusion that the case should be closed, blaming Ivins who ‘reportedly’ committed suicide by Tylenol overdose (I’m probably not the only one still wondering why an autopsy was avoided).