- Hello Jeff -- I still believe that Ivins is a patsy.
Israel was one of the countries that had the Ames strain of anthrax, as
did Italy, France, UK and across the US. We do know that the perps wanted
to blame an Islamic perp. Israel would have no qualms about releasing
anthrax. I still think that it was a conspiracy and those in power knew
and even ordered it.
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- Ivins made a really good patsy. He did have mental problems
that were compounded by the FBI harassment. Dr. Nass also mentioned that
the FBI was monitoring and watching Ivins at the time he killed himself.
They had his house bugged and probably had hidden cameras. They knew
exactly what Ivins was doing and probably even knew what he took. As Dr.
Nass points out, the FBI could have notified the doctors about the tylenol
and they could have given him an antidote. Dr. Ivins death was convenient
for the FBI. Who knows if they didn't lace his drinks or food with
it.
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- Then there was the therapist. Dr. Ivins therapist, herself,
under multiple charges of DUI was accompanied by the FBI to get a restraining
order against Dr. Ivins. After that, she is never heard from again. Who
knows, maybe she was killed also.
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- In any event the FBI closed the case...but a week later
Congress demanded the FBI continue the investigation. Dr. Nass' investigation
of this case is remarkable...
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- Patty
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- Federal Bureau Of Invention?
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- Microbiologist Meryl Nass Responds To The FBI 'Closing'
The Anthrax Case
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- By Dr. Meryl Nass, MD
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- The FBI's report, documents and accompanying information
(only pertaining to Ivins, not to the rest of the investigation) were released
on Friday afternoon. which means the FBI anticipated doubt and ridicule.
The National Academies of Science (NAS) is several months away from issuing
its $879,550 report on the microbial forensics, suggesting a) asking NAS
to investigate the FBI's science was just a charade to placate Congress,
and/or b) NAS' investigation might be uncovering things the FBI would prefer
to bury, so FBI decided to preempt the NAS panel's report.
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- Here are today's reports from the Justice Department,
AP, Washington Post and NY Times. The WaPo article ends,
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- The FBI's handling of the investigation has been criticized
by Ivins's colleagues and by independent analysts who have pointed out
multiple gaps, including a lack of hair, fiber other physical evidence
directly linking Ivins to the anthrax letters. But despite long delays
and false leads, Justice officials Friday expressed satisfaction with the
outcome.
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- The evidence "established that Dr. Ivins, alone,
mailed the anthrax letters," the Justice summary stated.
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- Actually, the 96 page FBI report is predicated on the
assumption that the anthrax letters attack was carried out by a "lone
nut." The FBI report fails to entertain the possibility that the letters
attack could have involved more than one actor. The FBI admits that about
400 people may have had access to Ivins' RMR-1029 anthrax preparation,
but asserts all were "ruled out" as lone perpetrators. FBI never
tried to rule any out as part of a conspiracy, however.
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- That is only the first of many holes in FBI's case. Here
is a sampling of some more.
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- 1. The report assumes Ivins manufactured, purified
and dried the spore prep in the anthrax hot room at US Army Medical Research
Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID). His colleagues say the equipment
available was insufficient to do so on the scale required.
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- 2. But even more important, the letter spores contained
a Bacillus subtilis contaminant, and silicon to enhance dispersal. FBI
has never found the Bacillus subtilis strain at USAMRIID, and it has never
acknowledged finding silicon there, either. If the letters anthrax was
made at USAMRIID, at least small amounts of both would be there.
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- 3. Drs. Perry Mikesell, Ayaad Assaad and Stephen Hatfill
were 3 earlier suspects. All had circumstantial evidence linking them to
the case. In Hatfill's case, especially, are hints he could have been "set
up." Greendale, the return address on the letters, was a suburb of
Harare, Zimbabwe where Hatfill attended medical school. Hatfill wrote an
unpublished book about a biowarfare attack that bears some resemblance
to the anthrax case. So the fact that abundant circumstantial evidence
links Ivins to the case might be a reflection that he too was "set
up" as a potential suspect, before the letters were sent.
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- 4. FBI fails to provide any discussion of why no autopsy
was performed, nor why, with Ivins under 24/7 surveillance from the house
next door, with even his garbage being combed through, the FBI failed to
notice that he overdosed and went into a coma. Nor is there any discussion
of why the FBI didn't immediately identify tylenol as the overdose substance,
and notify the hospital, so that a well-known antidote for tylenol toxicity
could be given (N-acetyl cysteine, or alternatively glutathione). These
omissions support the suggestion that Ivins' suicide was a convenience
for the FBI. It enabled them to conclude the anthrax case, in the absence
of evidence that would satisfy the courts.
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- 5. The FBI's alleged motive is bogus. In 2001, Bioport's
anthrax vaccine could not be (legally) relicensed due to potency failures,
and its impending demise provided room for Ivins' newer anthrax vaccines
to fill the gap. Ivins had nothing to do with developing Bioport's vaccine,
although in addition to his duties working on newer vaccines, he was charged
with assisting Bioport to get through licensure.
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- 6. FBI's report claims, "Those who worked for
him knew that Nass was one of those topics to avoid discussing around Dr.
Ivins" (page 41). The truth is we had friendly meetings at the Annapolis,
Maryland international anthrax conference in June 2001, and several phone
conversations after that. Bruce occasionally assisted me in my study of
the safety and efficacy of Bioport's licensed anthrax vaccine, giving me
advice and papers he and others had written. I wonder if I was mentioned
negatively to discourage Ivins' other friends and associates from communicating
with me, since they have been prohibited from speaking freely? Clever.
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- 7. The FBI's Summary states that "only a limited
number of individuals ever had access to this specific spore preparation"
and that the flask was under Ivins' sole and exclusive control. Yet the
body of the report acknowledges hundreds of people who had access to the
spores, and questions remain about the location of the spore prep during
the period in question. FBI wordsmiths around this, claiming that no one
at USAMRIID "legitimately" used spores from RMR1029 without the
"authorization and knowledge" of Bruce Ivins. Of course, stealing
spores to terrorize and kill is not a legitimate activity.
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- 8. FBI says that only a small number of labs had Ames
anthrax, including only 3 foreign labs. Yet a quick Pub Med search of papers
published between 1999 and 2004 revealed Ames anthrax was studied in at
least Italy, France, the UK, Israel and South Korea as well as the US.
By failing to identify all labs with access to Ames, the FBI managed to
exclude potential domestic and foreign perpetrators.
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- 9. FBI claims that "drying anthrax is expressly
forbidden by various treaties," therefore it would have to be performed
clandestinely. Actually, the US government sponsored several programs that
dried anthrax spores. Drying spores is not explicitly prohibited by the
Biological Weapons Convention, though many would like it to be.
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- 10. The FBI report claims the anthrax letters envelopes
were sold in Frederick, Md. Later it admits that millions of indistinguishable
envelopes were made, with sales in Maryland and Virginia.
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- 11. FBI emphasizes Ivins' access to a photocopy machine,
but fails to mention it was not the machine from which the notes that accompanied
the spores were printed.
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- 12. FBI claims Ivins was able to make a spore prep
of equivalent purity as the letter spores. However, Ivins had clumping
in his spores, while the spores in the Daschle/Leahy letters had no clumps.
Whether Ivins could make a pure dried prep is unknown, but there is no
evidence he had ever done so.
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- 13. FBI asserts that Bioport and USAMRIID were nearly
out of anthrax vaccine, to the point researchers might not have enough
to vaccinate themselves. FBI further asserts this would end all anthrax
research, derailing Ivins' career. In fact, USAMRIID has developed many
dozens of vaccines (including those for anthrax) that were never licensed,
but have been used by researchers to vaccinate themselves. There would
be no vaccine shortage for researchers.
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- 14. Ivins certainly had mental problems. But that does
not explain why the FBI accompanied Ivins' therapist, Ms. Duley (herself
under charges for multiple DUIs) and assisted her to apply for a peace
order against him. Nor does it explain why Duley then went into hiding,
never to be heard from again.
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- 15. FBI obtained a voluntary collection of anthrax
samples. Is that the way to conduct a multiple murder investigation: ask
the scientists to supply you with the evidence to convict them? There is
no report that spores were seized from anyone but Ivins, about 6 years
after the attacks. This is a huge hole in the FBI's "scientific"
methodology.
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- 16. FBI claims it investigated Bioport and others who
had a financial motive for the letters attack, and ruled them out. However,
FBI provides not a shred of evidence from such an investigation.
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- FBI gave this report its best shot. The report sounds
good. It includes some new evidence. It certainly makes Ivins out to be
a crazed, scary and pathetic figure. If you haven't followed this story
intently, you may be convinced of his guilt.
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- On the other hand, there are reasons why a conspiracy
makes better sense. If the FBI really had the goods, they would not be
overreaching to pin the crime on a lone nut.
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- JFK, RFK, George Wallace, Martin Luther King, all felled
by lone nuts. Even Ronald Reagan's would-be assassin was a lone nut. Now
Bruce Ivins. The American public is supposed to believe that all these
crimes required no assistance and no funds.
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- Does the FBI stand for the Federal Bureau of Invention?
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- Dr. Meryl Nass, MD is a leading expert on anthrax and
anthrax vaccine. She has offered her research and expert testimony at several
Congressional hearings in the U.S. Dr. Nass's website anthraxvaccine.org
offers in depth insight into anthrax, anthrax vaccine, biological warfare
and related topics.
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- Patricia A. Doyle DVM, PhD Bus Admin, Tropical Agricultural
Economics Univ of West Indies Please visit my "Emerging Diseases"
message board at: http://www.emergingdisease.org/phpbb/index.php Also
my new website: http://drpdoyle.tripod.com/ Zhan le Devlesa tai
sastimasa Go with God and in Good Health
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