Scientsts Continue To Question Anthrax Investigation And Case Against Bruce Ivins

[deminks]

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/08/scientsts_continue_to_question.php

Scientists are stepping up among those most skeptical of the FBI's evidence implicating military microbiologist Bruce Ivins in the 2001 Anthrax attacks.

In yesterday's New York Times, microbiologist Gerry Andrews wrote an op-ed describing himself as "both disheartened and perplexed by the lack of physical evidence" against Ivins. Andrews worked with Ivins for 16 years and served as the chief of the bacteriology division at the military lab at Ft. Detrick in Maryland.

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The American Society of Microbiologists, the primary professional association for the field, has not issued any public statements on the case, but is prepared to provide experts for testimony on Capitol Hill if asked, spokeswoman Barbara Hyde told TPMmuckraker.

Meanwhile, virtually nobody with a science background in microbiology has stepped forward in support of the FBI's conclusion that Ivins was likely the one and only person involved in the 2001 attacks, said Gigi Gronvall, a senior associate with the Center for Biosecurity at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

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[panader0]

1. The whole thing reeks of a cover-up

like all the rest we've seen since bushco arrived.

[jimshoes]

2. Several years ago there were a number of microbiologists

turning up dead seemingly regularly. I wonder if there is any connection to the anthrax killings or to this Ivins guy? Were people being silenced who knew something?