 |
 |
 |
|||
 |
|||
 |
|||
 |
|||
 |
|||
 |
|||
 |
|||
 |
|||
 |
|||
 |
|||
 |
|||
 |
|||
 |
|||
 |
|||
 |
|||
 |
|||
 |
|||
 |
|||
|
|||
 |
|||
|
|||
 |
|||
|
Scientific impossibility: Did FBI get their man in Bruce Ivins?
- Text size
Deborah Rudacille
Examiner Correspondent
November 18, 2008
Bruce Ivins was a cold-blooded murderer, a deranged psycho-killer, who in the fall of 2001, cooked up a virulent batch of powdered anthrax, drove to Princeton, N.J., and mailed letters loaded with the lethal mix to five news organizations and two U.S. senators.
At least, that’s what the FBI says.
The letters infected 22 people, killing five, including two Maryland postal workers.
The sixth victim of the madness was Ivins himself, a 62-year-old biodefense researcher at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, who committed suicide rather than face charges.
Case closed? Neatly wrapped up? Not so fast.
Married for 33 years — and a father of two — with a 35-year career as a civilian microbiologist at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Ivins, a devout Catholic, worked as a senior research scientist and an expert in animal models of anthrax. In 2003 he received the Army’s Decoration for Exceptional Civilian Service for work on an anthrax vaccine — an assignment the FBI now says provided a motive for the attacks.
Ivins apparently was obsessed with the investigation. According to the FBI, on Sept. 7, 2007, he sent an e-mail to himself, claiming to have figured out who mailed the anthrax letters. “I should have it TOTALLY nailed down within the month,” he wrote. “I should have been a private eye.”
Ivins, who did not name anyone in the e-mail, died on July 29, 2008, at Frederick Memorial Hospital after overdosing on prescription Tylenol with codeine. The FBI says he killed himself. The presence of the drug was determined from a blood sample. No autopsy was ordered.
- A d v e r t i s e m e n t
Before his death, he was under 24-hour police surveillance, which included interrogations about his research and work habits, searches of his home and office, and intense questioning of family members and co-workers. Friends say that the FBI offered Ivins’ son $2.5 million and a sports car to hand over evidence implicating his father in the attacks.
The month before Ivins’ death, the federal government agreed to pay $5.8 million to another former Fort Detrick researcher, Steven Hatfill, for “improperly identifying him as a suspect in the case.”
When he learned the FBI was going to charge him with the crime after clearing Hatfill, Ivins swallowed a bottle of Tylenol.
Rush to judgment
In exclusive interviews with The Examiner, two former directors of the bacteriology division at Fort Detrick challenged the science underlying the case against Ivins. They argue it would have been impossible for Ivins to have produced the powdered anthrax in the contaminated letters in the time frame proposed by the FBI — the two weeks following the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001.
The BSL-3 (biosafety level 3) suite where Ivins worked at the Institute was composed of a series of laboratories and an office where access was restricted to trained personnel who were required to log in and out.
“Knowing the layout of the BSL-3 suite, the implication that Bruce could have whipped out [anthrax mixture] in a couple of weeks without detection is ridiculous,” says Gerald P. Andrews, director of the bacteriology division and Ivins’ supervisor from 2000 to 2003.
The first anthrax letters were mailed to the New York offices of ABC, NBC and CBS, the New York Post and the National Inquirer in Boca Raton, Fla., on Sept. 18, 2001. The second letters were mailed to Sens. Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) on Oct.
9.
Infectious disease specialist W. Russell Byrne, who preceded Andrews as the division’s director, said he “never believed Ivins’ could have produced the preparations used in the anthrax letters working in the bacteriology division area of Building 1425.”
Departmental policy prohibits Institute employees from speaking with the media. But one researcher, speaking anonymously, told The Examiner: “It would have been impossible for Ivins to have grown, purified and loaded the amount of material in the letters in just six days. It simply could not be done.”
-
- Social bookmarks
- Email this article
-
- Print this page
- Share on Twitter
November 18th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
http://gangstalkingworld.com/
The gangstalking Feds give you a choice:
- kill yourself
- go crazy
- or maybe we will get you whenever we want
November 18th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
ok – we have a start
1. stop paying bills beyond the murder of JFK
2.make a one sided copy of a treasury note (any denomination) put it on your mailbox- (Identification to others)
3.carry a novelty bullet type keychain (identification to others)
4.?
please continue the list with smart non compliance ideas
lets get to 10 ideas and then crank up the volume – Patriots Unite!
November 18th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
AGAIN,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, THE DIRTY ROTTEN BASTARDS…………………………DID IT AGAIN……………..GOD’S SPEED,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
November 18th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
we have to get away from these nuts.
we almost have to start the system over.
i am trying to get my neighbors and family to grow gardens so we can exchange healthy produce.
e
http://www.aniboom.com/video/301279/obama-plan/
November 18th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
I think it’s interesting to note, the FBI used brownshirt intimidation and harrassment techniques to push him over the edge into a gov’t mental facility. Once there, they simply used their operatives (contracter and otherwise) to eliminate the liability and make him a convenient scapegoat for the Anthrax attacks. This is why they constantly provocateur certain American citizens, so they’ll eventually snap and wind up in either a mental facility or a prison, where the corrupt gov’t parties flourish, and they can have their way with you..
November 18th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
It’s pretty incriminating when you look at the targets and the timing of the anthrax attacks. My money is on the same people who carried out 911… Those letters were nothing more than blatant intimidation telling Daschle and the media that they better keep their mouths shut on what they saw and knew. Does anyone know anthing about Marc Cuban releasing Loose Change in theaters? Is that still on his agenda? Anyone?
November 18th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
I can’t believe this, Well yeah I can
November 18th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
Sounds like Mr Hatfield sold his soul to Satan…..if he hadn’t already working in a freakin’ BIOWEAPONS LAB!!!
November 18th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
Pete, you work for the bad guys? haha. Hey, I forget the timing but it was all bundled in with the Enron, 9/11 and the trying to terrorize the public anthraxically without starting with the public bombings and such. I allways figured they must have regretted not getting the senators, especially Leahey as he’s been a real prick when he could be over the last few years. He definately knows who did 9/11. Truth serum anyone…
November 18th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
GOD IS THE ULTIMATE JUDGE AND WILL HOLD THOSE ACCOUNTABLE.
REPENT FOR YOUR TIME IS NEAR.
November 19th, 2008 at 12:28 am
#12 THE SECOND COMING (ejaculator)
It’s a physical impossibility for a deluded thought…to judge and hold people accountable!
Therefore…you fall into either one of two categories of delusion “ejaculator”:
A} Your parents brainwashed you from birth…with the deluded beliefs that their parents bestowed upon them…so on and so forth!
B} Your a recent convert to the mysteries of delusion…as a former fucked up drug user or through personal tragedy…you have seen the light, heard Gods voice or felt his power…as a result of your deluded revelation you now attend one of the many “new age” religions…that cater specifically to “and target”…the unstable mind of the deluded!
Whether your delusions stem from category A} or category B}…is irrelevant…what’s important is that you get professional help…as soon as is humanly possible. That you are “off your rocker” is beyond doubt…though a small consolation i guess is the fact that 75% (approx) of the worlds population…are as deluded and fucked up as you are!
Have a nice day…P.S ~ sorry to depress you…further!!!
November 19th, 2008 at 1:11 am
To Aussie (#13). You are dillusional from having been ejaculated on too many times. You from down under have it ass backwards, just the way you like it.
November 19th, 2008 at 1:57 am
#14 Bill
I’m afraid your not sounding too “all loving” there Bill…i got the impression, that your “figment” God was a belief in your deluded mind…and that it was “all loving”???
In order to get the help that you need Bill…first recognize that you have an illness…only then can you break free of the delusion…and become a true “free thinking individual”
There are a great many people that have excorsised their delusions Bill…a great many. May the knowledge that others have gone on to lead lives free of control and fear…be of some comfort to your sick mind!
Have a nice day Bill…P.S ~ don’t be frightened of being in control of your own mind!
November 19th, 2008 at 2:12 am
These administration murderers say a lot of things to cover a preconceived conclusion.
November 19th, 2008 at 4:32 am
American Patriot to physicly remove these bastards is because nobody wants to be that one guy made to laugh at on youtube getting tasered or trampled by horses.Even the demanded I.D. documents are infact ILLEGAL under the constitution.Yet nobody knows that and they all think it’s to stop crime.Show me where in the 2nd Ammendment it even limits those SAID ARMS to guns?Letalone the one that demands we have Permits to carry at all?Balistics and fingerpint tracking all the old methods of evidence should suffice to stop crime.What stops it most is less unarmed victims.Even your Drivers’ License is illegal under the constitution,but that’s why way back when they stopped teaching you Government and your rights in the school system.Now we have the brainwashed including ME when I was younger ignorantly binding themselves for the criminals.So we have to one locate eachother, and 2 Build reliable communications with EACHOTHER , before we can effectively wake people up.If Alex is too radical with his ranting then send them to sites they can digest.Babysteps and somebody PLEASE Setup a repository for downloads of all thiese criminal document with The criminal parts edited with reasons WHY they are invalid under the constitution.ACTUAL GOV. Documents WORK.Provide the Link where said document was found so they have no choice,but to wake up and FACE the TRUTH!.
November 19th, 2008 at 7:08 am
Let’s retrace the anthrax events:
Senator’s Daschle and Leahey received the anthrax letters right after they refused to vote on the Patriot Act 1 without reading it first. Bing! They changed their minds and voted for it right away. That ended their defiance of Bush.The puplisher/editor of the Enquirer tabloid received an anthrax letter right after publishing pictures of Bush’s two daughters in a drunken brawl at a Frat house at college. Bing! That ended his defiance of Bush. The postal workers died from handling the anthrax tainted letters. The others that died were innocent victims that were targeted to make the whole attack more personal to all of us. You people really have to stop all this personal crap and OPEN YOUR DAMN EYES!!!! MOTIVE, MOTIVE MOTIVE!!!!
November 19th, 2008 at 10:38 am
Lets face it, only the US govt is capable of this attack.
November 19th, 2008 at 11:06 am
18 +19 and Aussie are right but what are we going to do eh?… At least 2 years ago someone on ‘Overgrow’ was documenting all the bush bad stuff(such as Fitz had sealed indictments on bush,cheney,gonzales…all of them as I recall, then poof, that all went away and ‘Overgrow’ website was busted and shut down) and anyway it don’t look like Obama is too hot to go after ‘em…As we write +write and…
November 19th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
IF bush and his cronnies aren’t charged for war crimes then it just goes to show that the UN and Obama are nothing more then a pack of bastards, how many millions have been killed,mamed or injured in this war that should never have happpend, lets face it its only been because of the Oil anyone can see that, Bin Laden is probably been secretly looked after by the CIA and he is nothing more then a puppet,
Take all these muslim racidicalists and hang them,
November 19th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
LOOK WHO HE WORKED FOR. TALK ABOUT SOME DERANGED PSYCHO KILLERS
November 28th, 2008 at 2:42 am
6 sick n tired
mark Cuban?
Is that why he got bum rushed?
Curious
March 19th, 2009 at 5:25 am
b
March 19th, 2009 at 5:27 am
u
March 19th, 2009 at 5:28 am
Crockett has it right
March 19th, 2009 at 5:28 am
/
March 19th, 2009 at 5:28 am
172