* Why rely on unsupported assertions and speculation of a DOJ AUSA when you can read the NGAV Approved Minutes for the 28 September 2001 Meeting for yourself?

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* August 23, 2001 NGRAV PDT Meeting Minutes dated August 23, 2001: Produced today to this blog by USAMRIID FOIA

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* Bruce Ivins formaldehyde (rabbits) “Research Progress Report” dated August 30, 2001 : produced today to this blog by USAMRIID FOIA

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* Produced today to this blog: August 30, 2001 Research Progress Report Form by Bruce Ivins about monkey study ongoing in September 2001

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* LMW … reflections on the possibility that the Stevens’ $2,500,000 settlement was really “hush money” as part of a desperate ongoing attempt by the FBI to keep the truth about the 2001 anthrax attacks hidden from the American people

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the FBI has charged a dead man who could never defend himself in court ... without offering convincing proof

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There is no way to put a value on a human life, and it is hard to argue that the U.S. government, specifically the USAMRIID laboratories, was not negligent in allowing someone to take anthrax in its possession and use it to commit 5 murders and hundreds more attempted murders.

That is, if you believe the FBI and think it was USAMRIID scientist Dr. Bruce Ivins who was the sole perpetrator of the anthrax attacks, or even that Ivins was involved in any way.

The problem is the FBI has never made its case against Ivins, and many others, perhaps hundreds of labs and thousands of individuals who had contact with those labs, had access to the batch of anthrax identified as the source from which the attack powder was prepared.

So it is very important to note that the Stevens’ settlement

included the sealing and/or destruction of witness testimony

which may have added to the conclusion that it was NOT IVINS.

If it wasn’t Ivins, then perhaps the government should not be liable in the Stevens’ case, and that in turn raises the possibility that the $2.5 million was, from the government’s point of view, really “hush money” to keep important elements of the truth about the 2001 anthrax attacks and the FBI investigation of those attacks from the American people.

The FBI has asserted, with no physical evidence, no witnesses, and no science, that Dr. Bruce Ivins was the sole perpetrator of the anthrax attacks. The FBI has not proven that Ivins prepared the powdered anthrax or that he mailed the letters, or that he was involved in any way, let alone that he was the sole perpetrator. To my mind, this leaves only 3 possibilities …

1. the FBI has more evidence against Dr. Ivins that they won’t show us.
2. the FBI has not solved the case at all and after the largest investigation in the history of the FBI, costing $100 million (now $102.5 million), they don’t know who did it.
3. the FBI does know who the perpetrators were (not Ivins) but for some reason won’t say.

Any of these alternatives conceals a terrible truth, and the Stevens’ settlement continues what appears to be a desperate ongoing attempt by the FBI to keep that truth hidden from the American people.

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