* Stephen Little provided a sworn statement at his deposition held at Ft. Detrick that Dr. Ivins was coming into the lab late and on weekends in late September of 01 and into early October 2001 to check the animals

* Susan Welkos testified at civil deposition that “We don’t have any way to produce the massive amount of material that would have been necessary to grow up and dry in a way that wouldn’t have killed everybody in the institute.”

* Dr. Gerard Andrews, Chief of Bacteriology, testified at deposition that lots of scientists worked after hours during that September – October 2001; Dr. Andrews has even pulled all-nighters

* Dr. Gerard Andrews, Chief of Bacteriology, explained at his civil deposition why the silicon signature in the anthrax was exculpatory of Dr. Bruce Ivins

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* Colonel Eitzen, the Commander, testified at civil deposition that a two-person rule prior to October 2001 would have been impractical because of the need for work on weekends and nights

 

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* At his civil deposition, Dr. Jahrling explained “I think there’s some questions to be asked about if that was a lyophilized powder how come the lyophilizer wasn’t contaminated.”

* Although the corrections to the Stephen Little transcript are not actually work-product or attorney-client — they are corrections to the transcript (in the nature of addendum) — USAMRIID is free to redact the changes made that it doesn’t want anyone to see

* Leading anthrax expert Arthur Frieldlander viewed the reported genetics evidence as definitive only as to the strain being Ames

 

* Dr. Patricia Worsham in her civil deposition said that RMR 1029 had been stored previously in Bldg 1412 and that in Bldg 1425 foreign nationals would have been in the containment suite on an escorted basis