* GAO Should Obtain From The FBI The Laboratory Chain-Of-Custody Form that has a space that identifies who destroyed the Feb. 02 sample submitted by Dr. Ivins and states the reasons it was not preserved (such as the others that were preserved using different slants)
Posted by DXer on January 7, 2012
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CASE CLOSED ... what really happened in the 2001 anthrax attacks? 
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‘Chinese Zodiac Killer’ sends letters to New York TV stations
FBI reportedly asks media to be on alert, preserve any evidence
https://www.foxnews.com/us/chinese-zodiac-killer-sends-letters-to-new-york-tv-stations
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Ivins sought instruction on preparation of the slant and got no response from the scientist working for the FBI. The NG’s “Hot Zone: Anthrax” treatment is pure fiction.
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Hey, if you want documentary evidence proving who threw out Ivins sample, pull the chain of custody form — and stop feeding your head with the mush from a fictionalized made-for-tv account spun by the compartmented, inexperienced FBI agents who botched Amerithrax.
Could anyone other than an FBI agent could have signed the form?
I am still looking for the email from Ivins to Ezzell asking for clarification about how to prepare the slant. Dr. Ezzell never responded.
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Hannity should resign if he is urging the destruction of evidence under these circumstances of witness tampering during the pendency of a known criminal investigation. We simply cannot countenance this sort of lawlessness where the destruction of evidence is publicly advocated by a close associate of the President of the United States and his personal attorney raided just weeks ago.
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Sean Hannity’s Advice To Mueller Witnesses: Bash Your Phones With A Hammer
By Harriet Sinclair On 6/7/18
http://www.newsweek.com/sean-hannitys-advice-mueller-witnesses-bash-your-phones-hammer-963460
Comment: Upon seeing the text of Hannity’s remarks, I think they were certainly fair comment under the First Amendment and his remarks were not anything that warrants his stepping down.
But I do think that any witness who destroyed his or her phone should seek the advice of counsel.
The Newsweek headline seems overly sensational — even misleading.
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Scott Stanley was involved in the collecting of the February 2002 samples and the instructions.
Dr. Stanley, who authorized the destruction of the submitted sample? Did you?
Why was the Ivins sample destroyed but others using the same type of slant not destroyed?
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The National Research Council explained in its 2014 report on Microbial Forensics:
“In all cases, the bottom line in sampling is that samples must be collected and preserved in a manner that prevents or minimizes degradation or contamination. This requirement makes sampling and preservation as important to the microbial forensic process as is scientific analysis.”
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FBI destroyed anthrax evidence
Official reason: The sample didn’t meet conditions for its collection
LARA JAKES JORDAN and SETH BORENSTEIN, Associated Press
Published 05:30 a.m., Tuesday, August 19, 2008
WASHINGTON — FBI scientists early on had — but destroyed — the unique strain of anthrax used in the deadly 2001 attacks that years later would lead them to Dr. Bruce Ivins, the government’s top suspect in the nation’s biggest bioterror case.
FBI Assistant Director Vahid Majidi said Monday the initial anthrax sample that Ivins took from his Army lab in February 2002 and gave investigators did not meet court-ordered conditions for its preparation and collection.
In a briefing for reporters, Majidi said the sample kept at the FBI lab was destroyed because the bureau believed it might not have been allowed as evidence at trial.
“Looking at hindsight, obviously we would do things differently today,” Majidi said.
Ivins, 62, took a fatal dose of acetaminophen last month as prosecutors prepared to indict him for murder.
He gave investigators a second sample of anthrax from his lab in April 2002 to comply with standards in a subpoena.
Comment: Why did Special Pathogens submit a sample in May 2002 on a “homemade slant” if that was the reason that Dr. Ivins was destroyed? The instructions expressly permitted an equivalent to be used. If the TSA slant made in the laboratory by Special Pathogens was permitted, why wasn’t the TSA slant made in the laboratory by Dr. Ivins’ lab permitted? The instructions expressly permitted a Remel TSA Slant OR ITS EQUIVALENT.