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Archive for April, 2013
* a selection of posts from the CASE CLOSED blog making the case AGAINST the FBI’s assertions that Dr. Bruce ivins was the anthrax attacker
Posted by DXer on April 30, 2013
Evidence for the Source of the 2001 Attack Anthrax
New Documents Cast Doubt on Federal Anthrax Case
Bruce Ivins Maybe Didn’t Send the Anthrax, Government Admits in Court Papers
Frontline, partnering with McClatchy and ProPublica, has done important work in assessing the FBI’s conclusion in Amerithrax.
A detailed analysis of Laurie Garrett’s new book
The unsolved anthrax murder mystery
THE ANTHRAX ATTACKS OF 2001, AN UNSOLVED MYSTERY (pdf)
Colleague Says Anthrax Numbers Add Up to Unsolved Case
Nadler Renews Call for Independent Investigation of Anthrax Attacks
Widow Of Anthrax Victim Doubts FBI’s Conclusion
Derailing Justice Again
Ivins Minus the Technicolor
Al Qaeda anthrax lab tech says he had been part of Malaysian Armed Forces biological weapons program
Al Qaeda anthrax lab technician tells DXer that he realizes that by addressing these issues he may “jack myself up” but says that the “plan is on the way” — what does he mean when he says the “plan is on the way”?
Atta Was Coordinating With Jdey’s Associate Al-Hazmi, First In Fort Lee, NJ In Late August 2001 And Then In Laurel, MD in September 2001 ; Jdey’s Associate Nawaf Al-Hazmi Had Been At The Planning Meeting At Yazid Sufaat’s Kuala Lumpur Condo With Anthrax Planner Hambali And Anthrax Lab Director Yazid Sufaat And Yet The FBI Never Told The Public That Jdey Had Been Detained Along With Moussaoui In August 2001 (With Biology Textbooks) And Then Released
NSA ORCON: CIA and FBI Dropping the Ball In Anthrax Mailings and 9/11 Involved Same Failure To Track And Intercept Al-Midhar And Nawaf After Meeting At Kuala Lumpur Condo Of Anthrax Lab Tech Sufaat and Anthrax Planner Hambali
In today’s installment of a continuing series, Al Qaeda anthrax lab technician Yazid Sufaat defends his decision to go to Afghanistan to work on his “anthrax project” for Al Qaeda
Anthrax Lab Director Yazid Sufaat Wrote This Letter Of Introduction For Zacarias Moussaoui, Who Made The Cropduster Inquiries
On The Question Whether Yazid Sufaat Was Using Virulent Ames (see NAS Report), We Need One Of These Top-Flight Journalists To Succeed In Getting Substantive, On-The-Record Responses From Yazid
The “Hatfill Theory” was part of the same unstoppable train wreck as the “Ivins Theory.” There was a change of cars (investigators), but it was the same flawed train of reasoning and the investigators never overcame the earlier truncated emphasis of the investigation.
U.S. Senator Grassley … “There are no more excuses for avoiding an independent review and assessment of how the FBI handled its investigation in the anthrax case.”
Senator Grassley asks the FBI to explain why it retracted a Justice Department filing (in the Stevens case) that Dr. Bruce Ivins lacked access in his lab to the “specialized equipment” needed to dry wet anthrax spores into airborne powder
In a Sept 23, 2011 letter to Senator Grassley, the DOJ says that Dr. Ivins made the dried powder in B5 using the lyophilizer even though the DOJ has proved he was in B3 tending to the rabbits, not B5 (the BL-2 lab), at the time the DOJ alleges he made the dried powder. THAT is the contradiction.
Baltimore Sun/Frontline … if Ivins was not the person who sent the anthrax, then that killer is still on the loose … and we are left with an FBI that not only failed to solve such a huge case, but overstated and maybe lied about what it did accomplish.
Deposition Excerpt of USAMRIID Scientist Stephen Little: Bruce Ivins would not have had skill, equipment, or ability to decontaminate equipment
Deposition Excerpt of Patricia Worsham in Stevens v. United States: Product Could Not Have Been Made At USAMRIID With Equipment She Has Seen At USAMRIID
USAMRIID Scientist Susan Welkos deposition excerpt : No data suggesting Dr. Ivins is guilty
Ayman Zawahiri, Anwar Awlaki, Anthrax, and Amerithrax: The Infiltration Of US Biodefense
Justice Dept. takes on itself in probe of 2001 anthrax attacks
Was FBI too quick to judge anthrax suspect the killer?
Scientist Innocent of Anthrax Mailings, Former Colleague Says
Science falls short in anthrax investigation
Editorial
OPINION
Eric Nadler:
Anthrax Redux: Did the Feds Nab the Wrong Guy? | Wired Magazine
NPR: FBI Faulted For Overstating Science In Anthrax Case
Serious doubt cast on FBI’s anthrax case against Bruce Ivins – Salon …
NAS Panel Member Nancy D. Connell in new treatise: Amerithrax May Never Be Solved
“Tellingly, it was a target of the 2001 anthrax letters – Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont – who told Mueller at a 2008 hearing that he seriously doubted the findings of the FBI’s long and complicated anthrax investigation.”
PR’s John Dankowsky interviews Stephen Engleberg, Paul Keim and David Relman … RELMAN: the evidence linking the anthrax material in the letters to the material in the flask in Bruce Ivins’ lab was consistent with an association but was not conclusive or definitive … KEIM: there’s no scientific test that can prove that it came from Fort Detrick, Maryland.
former USAMRIID scientists Jeff Adamovicz and Gerry Andrews … “The scientific evidence clearly shows that the (anthrax) wasn’t produced in our laboratory (USAMRIID).” … ie, IT WASN’T IVINS!!!
Richard Spertzel in WSJ: Bruce Ivins Wasn’t the Anthrax Culprit
Washington Post editorial (10/21/11) calls for independent review of FBI investigation of Dr. Bruce Ivins in 2001 anthrax attacks
NY Post editorial: a group of eminent scientists have found that the FBI’s Amerithrax conclusions may be shockingly wrong … (the FBI) clearly can’t be trusted to judge cases that reflect badly on its own conduct
an interview with David Relman, vice chair of the NAS review committee, reveals clearly that the science cannot prove that Dr. Bruce Ivins is the sole perpetrator or even involved … and, by the way, it seems Al Qaeda had Ames anthrax
Bioweapons expert Jonathan Tucker noted in his 2010 NATO briefing that skeptics had pointed out numerous holes in the FBI’s “Ivins Theory” (and see 2013 book)
Rutgers professor and Amerithrax expert Dr. Leonard Cole … there remain important gaps in the FBI’s evidence against Dr. Bruce Ivins
Jeffrey Adamovicz and Gerry Andrews, the people who knew Dr. Ivins and his lab capabilities better than anyone else, make powerful arguments that the FBI has not made its case … and Adamovicz says “he feels morally obligated to continue to pursue the case.”
Army microbiologist Dr. Henry Heine, until now forbidden to speak, says … Ivins is absolutely not the anthrax attacker … it was impossible that the deadly spores had been produced undetected in Dr. Ivins’s laboratory, as the F.B.I. asserts … whoever did this is still running around out there
International anthrax expert Dr. Hugh Martin-Jones challenges the government to test his team’s hypothesis in a lab instead of with “lawyer talk” … “I hope [the findings] will add to the pressure that the investigation be actively reopened.”
Doubts about anthrax story
Daily Journal Online-12 hours ago
Editorial: Decade after anthrax mail attacks, questions still remain
Justice Department Filing Casts Doubt on Guilt of Bruce Ivins, Accused in Anthrax Case
Posted by Lew Weinstein on September 4, 2012
New leads in anthrax case
Obama Obstructs Oversight of FBI in Anthrax Case
ProPublica, McClatchy Newspapers and PBS’ Frontline … the FBI’s case against anthrax suspect rife with questions
Laurie Garrett … the FRONTLINE program has convinced me that Dr. Bruce Ivins is innocent of the 2001 anthrax mailings
Frederick News Post: the FBI’s case against Dr. Bruce Ivins is in tatters … *LMW: we must support Congressman Holt’s call for a re-investigation … we must learn the truth
In Have We “Met the Enemy”?, Science 3 February 2012: Vol. 335 no. 6068 pp. 540-541, Dr. David Relman, who had been vice-chairman of the NAS Committee, explains:
Claire Fraser-Liggett: the genetic analysis of the spores in Ivins’ flask does not indicate Ivins is guilty
an article by Drs. Hugh-Jones, Rosenberg & Jacobsen highlights key unanswered questions in the FBI anthrax investigation … such as where and how were the anthrax spores in the attack letters prepared?
Melanie Ulrich: “Ex-colleague [assistant] questions government’s case against anthrax suspect”
Congressman Holt: the FBI’s “botched investigation” must be reopened … LMW: please write to your Congressman or woman and urge support for Holt’s Anthrax Commission bill
HOLT, ANTHRAX and JEOPARDY: “He mailed the anthrax-laden letters in Fall 2001. Who is _______?”
Congressman Rush Holt: The FBI repeatedly bungled the anthrax investigation … I have introduced legislation that would create a special committee to investigate the anthrax attacks
Hartford Courant: Anthrax Attacks Still A Mystery After 10 Years …
AP: statements by scientists in Florida court case raise doubts regarding the FBI conclusion that Dr. Bruce Ivins prepared the anthrax used in the 2001 attacks
Washington Post editorial calls for Congressional commission to probe all evidence in the anthrax case
Keith Olbermann interviews investigative reporter Gerald Posner … the FBI anthrax case is severely flawed
Frederick News-Post columnist Barry Kissin – the lynching of Bruce Ivins
selected extracts from the presentation of anthrax vaccine MD Dr. Meryl Nass at the Nov 29, 2010 anthrax seminar
Stephanie Yamkovenko of Frederick Gorilla summarizes elements of the FBI’s non-existent case against Dr. Ivins
Excerpts from “I Heard The Sirens Scream” by by Pulitzer Prize winning author Laurie Garrett
slide presentation at the Nov 29 anthrax letters seminar
Dr. Alan Zelicoff, the head of Saint Louis University’s Institute in Biosecurity, has serious doubts about the government’s official explanation of Amerithrax
Ken Dillon asks … Who Was the Real Anthrax Mailer? … the key people in the anthrax mailings were not Bruce Ivins or Steven Hatfill … instead, they appear to have been Ali al-Timimi and Abderraouf Jdey.
Congressman Mike Pence & Pulitzer prize winning science writer Laurie Garrett agree on Anthrax Mailings.. Pence: “I don’t know who sent it” — I am afraid we may have missed the off-ramp to the truth.” … Garrett: “I get outraged because the FBI completely botched the investigation on the anthrax.”
Doubts Persist About FBI’s Anthrax Investigation 10 Years Later …
4-page summary of analysis
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged: * Congressman Holt & anthrax, ** NAS anthrax study, *** Dr. Bruce Ivins, *** FBI anthrax investigation, GAO review of FBI anthrax investigation | 8 Comments »
* Rep. Rush Holt is still trying to use the powers of government to review the FBI’s flawed investigation of the 2001 anthrax attacks.
Posted by DXer on April 27, 2013
Palm Beach Post, April 16, 2013:
“(the 2001) anthrax attacks took place at the U.S. Senate, in New York City and in Connecticut (and in Florida).
… And we still don’t know who did it.”
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Rep. Rush Holt (D, NJ) served as Chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence from its start in 2007 until it was disbanded in 2010. The Panel was charged with strengthening oversight of the intelligence community by ensuring that policymakers receive accurate assessments, civil liberties are safeguarded, and the intelligence community is protecting Americans at home and abroad. Holt is also the Congressman who initiated the request for a GAO review of the FBI’s anthrax investigation, a review is is still ongoing.
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged: *** 2001 anthrax attacks, *** FBI anthrax investigation, Congressman Rush Holt, GAO review of FBI anthrax investigation | 47 Comments »
* evidence which contradicted the FBI’s spin was held for years AFTER Dr. Ivins committed suicide (2008) and the FBI one week later asserted he was the sole perpetrator of the 2001 anthrax attacks
Posted by DXer on April 26, 2013
The FBI has no case against this man … but meanwhile he is dead and the real perpetrators are still out there.
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USAMRIID eventually uploaded thousands of Dr. Ivins’ emails.
Produced months, even years, after Dr. Ivins committed suicide,
they contradicted the government’s assertions.
But by the time the Ivins exculpatory correspondence was produced,
Dr. Ivins was long buried and forgotten,
and interest in the FBI contradictions was virtually non-existent.
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Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged: *** Dr. Bruce Ivins, *** FBI anthrax investigation, exculpatory evidence withheld, FBI withholds evidence, Ivins' suicide | 5 Comments »
* there is apparently no evidence to support the arrest of Paul Curtis in the recent Ricin mailing … just as there is no evidence against Dr. Bruce Ivins in the 2001 anthrax case
Posted by DXer on April 24, 2013
Maybe it’s time to recollect that, although the FBI asserts Dr. Bruce Ivins was the sole perpetrator of the 2001 anthrax attacks, they have presented absolutely NO EVIDENCE to support that assertion, or even any evidence that Dr. Ivins was involved in the attacks at all. Specifically, there is …
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no physical evidence of any kind linking Dr. Ivins to any aspect of the crime, other than that he had access to the anthrax (as did hundreds of other scientists)
- no scientific evidence linking the attack anthrax to Dr. Ivins (as confirmed by an NAS review)
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no witnesses who ever suggested that Ivins was the culprit
We can only hope that the on-going but long-delayed GAO review of the FBI’s investigation will eventually be completed and will lead to an understanding, not only of the deficiencies of the FBI’s case against Dr. Ivins, but also the reasons the FBI has stuck for so long to such an untenable position.
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Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged: *** Dr. Bruce Ivins, *** FBI anthrax investigation, GAO review of FBI anthrax investigation, ricin & anthrax attacks | 144 Comments »
*GAO review of the FBI’s anthrax investigation due the same month FBI Director Mueller’s term is up … what a coincidence!
Posted by DXer on April 23, 2013
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The word is that the GAO review of the FBI’s anthrax investigation
is now expected in September 2013.
In 2011, President Obama had asked Director Mueller
to continue at the helm of the FBI
for another 2 years beyond his current term,
until September 4, 2013.
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What a coincidence!
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Maybe then, finally, with Mueller gone,
the truth will be known
and Dr. Ivins’ reputation can be restored.
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Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged: *** FBI anthrax investigation, FBI Director Mueller, GAO review of FBI anthrax investigation | 32 Comments »
CASE CLOSED ... what really happened in the 2001 anthrax attacks? 