Ivins Lone Anthrax Man....Right.

[tekisui]

WASHINGTON - Bruce Ivins, a brilliant yet deeply troubled Army scientist, was solely responsible for the anthrax attacks that killed five and rattled the nation in 2001, the government declared Wednesday, alleging he had custody of the lethal spores involved and access to the distinctive envelopes used to mail them.

Ivins, who committed suicide last week, submitted false anthrax samples to the FBI to throw investigators off his trail and was unable to provide "an adequate explanation for his late laboratory work hours" around the time of the attacks, according to documents that officials made public to support their case.

Investigators also said he sought to frame unnamed co-workers and had immunized himself against anthrax and yellow fever in early September 2001, several weeks before the first anthrax-laced envelope was received in the mail.

Ivins killed himself last week as investigators closed in, and U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Taylor said at a Justice Department news conference, "We regret that we will not have the opportunity to present evidence to the jury."

link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080806/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/anthrax_investigation

[EFerrari]

1. These two AP reporters have carried the bulk of the water. n/t

[tekisui]

3. That's the problem with our media right there.

No more journalists. A couple of AP write the stories for the rest of the info-tainment to run with. We don't get sides, or investigative reports. Damn, it's frustrating trying to piece shit together from a home computer.

[EFerrari]

4. I know. Greenwald has been very good, though.

Amy Goodman has done all right. Posner has been good. The hometown paper in Frederick has been very decent.

Authorized Propaganda and its tributaries, not so much.

[Supersedeas]

14. there you have it -- one source for the regurgitation machine

[mrreowwr_kittty]

2. Yep. He was alone. Nothing to see here. Move along. nt

[whirlygigspin]

5. I beleive it

just click your heels three times and forget

[renegade000]

6. "Brilliant yet deeply troubled...scientist"

Geez, how much more cliche can you get? It annoys me when journalists (or what we call journalists these days) just tack on descriptors like this to sex-up their writing...pigeonholing people into nice little commonplace narratives. Never heard of the "brilliant, but deeply troubled scientist" before. Is he a "brilliant scientist" because he is more articulate, more well-published, more ingenious than his colleagues? Are those AP reporters well-versed enough in the field of microbiology and Dr. Ivin's own contributions to his field to be qualified to make that assertion?

[Junkdrawer]

7. One month from now, anyone who posts that Lee Harvey Ivins DIDN'T do it...

will have their posts moved to the 9/11 Forum immediately where trained volunteers will heap scorn all over it.

[Bolo Boffin]

8. Such optimism!

Let's all cross our fingers and hope! :D

[Junkdrawer]

9. You guys are getting ready. I can tell. n/t

[Bolo Boffin]

10. Now it's "you guys"? Really? Care to name a few names? n/t

[Junkdrawer]

11. Winkin', Blinkin', and Nod

Winkin', Blinkin', and Nod, one night sailed off in a wooden shoe;
Sailed off on a river of crystal light into a sea of dew.
"Where are you going and what do you wish?" the old moon asked the three.
"We've come to fish for the herring fish that live in this beautiful sea.
Nets of silver and gold have we," said Winkin', Blinkin', and Nod.

The old moon laughed and sang a song as they rocked in the wooden shoe.
And the wind that sped them all night long ruffled the waves of dew.
Now the little stars are the herring fish that live in that beautiful sea;
"Cast your nets wherever you wish never afraid are we!"
So cried the stars to the fishermen three - Winkin', and Blinkin', and Nod.

So all night long their nets they threw to the stars in the twinkling foam.
'Til down from the skies came the wooden shoe bringing the fisherman home.
'Twas all so pretty a sail it seemed as if it could not be.
Some folks say 'twas a dream they dreamed of sailing that misty sea.
But I shall name you the fisherman three - Winkin', Blinkin', and Nod.

Now Winkin' and Blinkin' are two little eyes and Nod is a little head.
And the wooden shoe that sailed the skies is a wee one's trundle bed.
So close your eyes while mother sings of the wonderful sights that be.
And you shall see those beautiful things as you sail on the misty sea,
Where the old shoe rocked the fishermen three - Winkin', Blinkin', and Nod.

[Bolo Boffin]

12. How special.

The main suspect being a right-wing activist with paranoid tendencies and a hate-on for the ACLU, you'd think some here would cotton to it. Why is always the right-wingers that seem to attack America for its own good?

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

13. What a steaming pile of BS...

...the FBI's story is absurd.