I had an interesting conversation last night. [View All]

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With a former colleague of Dr. Bruce Ivins. An ex coworker whom I knew worked at Detrick.
Apparantly she was a suspect in the anthrax case for awhile (number TWO on the list) and came within days of having the FBI publicize her name in order to get her to agree to a polygraph.
Her take is Ivins was actually much less strange than a bunch of other people there..the things she rattled off about people..icky! Including one colleague who accidently injected her with what would normally be a lethal dose of Rift Valley Fever (she had the vaccine and other protective treatments and after isolation was okay). Oh she also told them a possible method that Ivins could have dried out the anthrax..and apparantly they found the kind of stuff on him that she mentioned.
Anyway apparantly the big reason it sounds like the FBI screwed this up so badly is that the politicians at the top wanted so badly to have a suspect they focussed in on Hatfill to the exclusion of all else...The reason they suspected Hatfill? The polygraph profile they gave him..he answered all the questions wrong..My friend had the same profile polygraph done and they actually, after a few false starts..TOLD HER WHAT TO SAY TO GIVE THE CORRECT ANSWERS. Yoiks!
So it seems like to me it was idiocy at the top that screwed up this investigation from the beginning. But it was fascinating to hear this stuff! I can now confidently say, I have a UNIQUE perspective on this case.
Thought I'd share this with you guys, since I thought you guys would value an inside perspective on this...:yoiks: