Scientists Question FBI Probe On Anthrax
http://groups.google.com/group/omeganews/t/dffa5bcabf79ff57?hl=de
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Bruce Ivins: The movie
AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo
08/06/08
It sounds like a very bad made-for-television movie: a mad scientist — a violent sociopath, a ‘nerd with a dark side,’ who had already tried to kill several people, is obsessed with pornography, and is fixated on a particular college sorority — unleashes a strain of deadly anthrax through the U.S. mail, killing five, infecting 17 others, and terrorizing the country. His motive, aside from sheer antisocial vindictiveness: he holds the patent for an anthrax vaccine, and he also wants to direct the nation’s attention to the supposedly overlooked and underfunded problem of bio-terrorism. That’ll teach ‘em! It reads like some pretty execrable fiction, yet the FBI is peddling this farrago of shopworn cliches as the facts surrounding the alleged guilt of Bruce E. Ivins, whose suicide the other day ostensibly closes the 7-year-old anthrax terrorism case that has baffled investigators and shone a cruel light on the Bureau’s methods and standards of conduct...
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=13262
Anthrax suspect’s attorney chides FBI’s “evolving” case
WTOP News
08/19/08
While the FBI and federal prosecutors are confident the case against the sole suspect in the 2001 anthrax attacks would have been proven beyond a reasonable doubt, Bruce Ivins’ attorney says the government is not providing enough information to allow the public to judge for itself. Attorney Paul Kemp tells WTOP the FBI and prosecutors are tweaking the case against Ivins in a way that wouldn’t be allowed in court. … Top FBI officials and a handful of prominent scientists who aided the investigation presented more — but not all — of the scientific case against Ivins in a two-hour briefing Monday to try to quell suspicions of outside scientists, some of whom were friends of the suspect. At times, the officials and scientists contradicted themselves, even down to the number of flasks containing the anthrax Ivins had...
http://www.wtop.com/?sid=1462645&nid=25
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=anthrax
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/justin
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Bruce Ivins: The movie
AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo
08/06/08
It sounds like a very bad made-for-television movie: a mad scientist — a violent sociopath, a ‘nerd with a dark side,’ who had already tried to kill several people, is obsessed with pornography, and is fixated on a particular college sorority — unleashes a strain of deadly anthrax through the U.S. mail, killing five, infecting 17 others, and terrorizing the country. His motive, aside from sheer antisocial vindictiveness: he holds the patent for an anthrax vaccine, and he also wants to direct the nation’s attention to the supposedly overlooked and underfunded problem of bio-terrorism. That’ll teach ‘em! It reads like some pretty execrable fiction, yet the FBI is peddling this farrago of shopworn cliches as the facts surrounding the alleged guilt of Bruce E. Ivins, whose suicide the other day ostensibly closes the 7-year-old anthrax terrorism case that has baffled investigators and shone a cruel light on the Bureau’s methods and standards of conduct...
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=13262
Anthrax suspect’s attorney chides FBI’s “evolving” case
WTOP News
08/19/08
While the FBI and federal prosecutors are confident the case against the sole suspect in the 2001 anthrax attacks would have been proven beyond a reasonable doubt, Bruce Ivins’ attorney says the government is not providing enough information to allow the public to judge for itself. Attorney Paul Kemp tells WTOP the FBI and prosecutors are tweaking the case against Ivins in a way that wouldn’t be allowed in court. … Top FBI officials and a handful of prominent scientists who aided the investigation presented more — but not all — of the scientific case against Ivins in a two-hour briefing Monday to try to quell suspicions of outside scientists, some of whom were friends of the suspect. At times, the officials and scientists contradicted themselves, even down to the number of flasks containing the anthrax Ivins had...
http://www.wtop.com/?sid=1462645&nid=25
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=anthrax
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/justin
rudkla - 4. Aug, 15:26
