The US government formally ended all investigations into the anthrax attack case against Dr. Bruce Ivins in early 2010, trying to attribute his claims of innocence to the idea that he “forgot” and insisting the case was solid. Continued media investigations suggest the case had more holes than swiss cheese.
The latest round of investigations, conducted by McClatchy and ProPublica, including aspects of his cooperation with the case that the government simply didn’t tell his lawyer about. Though there is a massive amount of circumstantial evidence, the prosecutors never had actual proof, and that what evidence they did have was very selectively interpreted.
Of course this is unsurprising, since much of the same “evidence” was presented by officials as proof that Steven Hatfill was the culprit. It was only after they abandoned the Hatfill theory that they became equally convinced that it must be Ivins, who committed suicide in the face of the allegations.
Still, prosecutors shrugged off the latest flaws in their case, insisting that they were confident in being able to convict Ivins, if it ever came to a trial. Of course as with many other allegations, it never came to a trial.
This was biggest lie in american history as a chemist or biochemist I know that Anthrax is microbiological product and have to kept in cold storage and can,t work if we send through post. This is simple for biologists or microbiologist.
Only through such FBI agents Muslims were accused and undoubtedly they were FBI agents.
Money is very sweet and lies an option to carry out such accusations for money.
The important factor about this case is that it was "an inside job", meaning, that DOD supplied both the weapons and manpower on the only attack on the US with WMD. Whether it had been a one man job or a conspiracy, we don´t know for yet. What the FBI is sure of, is the fact that it was an inside job – made by the very organization that is suppose to defend Americans, our DOD.
DOD is very consistent in its inability to defend our country´s largest city and capital (it´s own headquarters) from foreigners using our commercial aircraft armed with box cutters, but to produce a WMD attack against its own citizens is a little too much. DOD couldn´t account for $2.3 trillion over a ten year period prior to 9-11. They can´t defend us, they can´t control their own budget, they attack us – what good are they providing? Who are the clowns running that organization, and why haven´t they been fired or put on trial for criminal negligence?
Only in America can you get rewarded for failure. In fact it's job one in DC.
Good point by MoT…. Not only were those NORAD guys responsible to defend us on 911 NOT fired, they get promoted…….. &&&&& Our [N?S?A} agency, responsible to gather information from the net, radio, TV…& telephone… Somehow they missed the $1OO,OOO.OO that Gen. Mahmud Ahmed hijacker Atta… And what happens to ?N?S?A> director ?Hayden??? He gets TOP intelligence Job… DIA!! That is HEAD of the CIA…!!
Dr. Ivins is yet another American hounded to death by his own government for their convenience. Once again the actual criminals walk free just like Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice and the gang who brought us the Iraq War.
If they really were so "confident", they wouldn't be vehemently resisting an independent review of the case and their handling of it, now would they?
Absolutely. It's the old argument that tyrants always use on everyone else turned on themselves: If you've nothing to hide you have nothing to worry about.
Let's say for the sake of argument that the FBI is right and Ivins really did do it "on the job". Well this poses the obvious question: Why the hell wasn't his boss fired? If a guy can go to work and instead of doing what he's supposed to be doing, he pursues a formidable, highly risky, illegal manufacturing operation and then launches a deadly bio-terror attack against the United States, causing the United States to launch a war against an innocent country, and his boss is so irresponsible and/or incompetent that he knows nothing about what his people are doing, shouldn't his boss be at least reprimanded?
How does the "government" get to have it both ways?
If there will be no independent investigation of the anthrax affair and the FBI's handling of it, and the "official" version is to stand as is, then I demand that the whole supervisory staff at USAMRIID be fired if not also charged as accomplices.
"…How does the "government" get to have it both ways? …" Seriously? They write the rules and then decide which ones they are going to apply to themselves. And most of the time they rule that those pesky laws don't apply to them. They decide whether there will be an independent investigation and guess what, there isn't. Surprised?
And it is becoming more and more obvious that they also don't care whether anyone knows how the system works now. They really don't care what the American people think.
Well my question was in part rhetorical. Yes, I know the corrupt "government" will never challenge itself, but why is *nobody else* challenging them on the very basic issue of the implied dereliction of the management staff at USAMRIID? Not even 9/11 truthers and other skeptics have raised the issue, as far as I know.
It stands to reason that if Ivins was able to use the facilities at USAMRIID to make a bio-weapon with which to attack the United States, management at the facility was negligent in their responsibilities. There's no other way to look at it. Can you imagine if something similar happened in a private laboratory setting somewhere? There'd be all kinds of lawsuits filed and people getting fired, etc., heads would roll. Yet in this case, nothing? And there's not a peep out of anyone?