* In long withheld July 4, 2000 Email to former assistant Mara Linscott, Bruce Ivins is revealed to be closet scrabble player
Posted by DXer on January 19, 2018
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CASE CLOSED ... what really happened in the 2001 anthrax attacks? 
DXer said
I try to avoid emotionally charged debates — like whether the NYT’s “Spelling Bee” is superior to Wordscapes.
But can we please require actual honest-to-goodness evidence in accusing a man of murder — which requires that contrary documentary evidence be disclosed?
DXer said
In his new book, Mark Kortepeter writes:
“After his death four of his colleagues, all anthrax experts, wrote a tribute to Bruce in the scientific journal Microbe. In addition to citing his long history of scientific accomplishments, they noted that he was an “enthusiastic teacher, coworker, and mentor to his technicians, students and colleagues…. a skilled poet, songwriter, and musician; a dedicated volunteer…. His colleagues and friends will remember him not only for his dedication to his work, but also for his humor, curiosity, and great generosity.”
Getting those four scientific rivals to agree on anything was an accomplishment in and of itself.”
DXer said
The FBI felt that it could produce this email but cannot produce the emails that it does not want to produce.
For that, it wants to send Dillon back to the Army — where, as chronicled in this blog, we have been working with the emails for MANY years at producing emails. The emails at issue cannot be produced by the Army, the Army said, because it was told by the DOJ and FBI to cull them from production. That WRITTEN INSTRUCTION was by email to John Peterson of the USMRMC. (John, your sister says she’s all set on cranberry sauce for Thanksgiving.)
A Congressional Committee should subpoena all instructions by the DOJ and FBI to John Peterson to cull specific emails to and from Bruce Ivins from the FOIA production. Culling based on the investigation being open was no longer justified when the investigation was closed.
President Trump should fire Dave Hardy, head of the FBI’s FOIA operation, because he knows full well that what he is doing wrong by withholding these emails in Mueller’s biggest whodunnit is an abdication of the rule of law.
False narratives only continue to exist because the FBI is allowed to wrongfully withhold documents.
Anthrax, Al Qaeda and Ayman Zawahiri: The Infiltration of US Biodefense
http://www.amerithrax.wordpress.com
DXer said
David Hardy is also withholding a March 4, 2001 email that is especially dark and troubling. For any FOIA requestor, the adage “be careful what you wish for” comes to mind. Just as with the fellow who forged his PhD certificate and the fellow who forged a signature on a will, there are factual underpinnings of an Ivins Theory that make Ivins look really bad and make an Ivins Theory look very reasonable.
So the key short strokes to focus on — litigation-wise — are the emails from September 2001 and October 2001. For example, September 15, 21 and 26.
The key issue is to have a transparency that allows us to see how Ivins was spending his time during the period that the FBI speculates Ivins was preparing a deadly anthrax to mail.
DXer said
The FBI scientist did not appreciate that his hours analysis was garbage for several reasons — to include that the challenges and shifted from aerosol challenges in 1412 to injection challenges in 1425.
And looking only at 1425, he missed the hours Ivins was spending, for example in the summer of 2000.
He wrote Mara Linscott, his former assistant:
“Spending every possible moment here at work, including holidays, weekends and evenings (several times lately I’ve had to come in at night and work into the wee hours of the morning – no fun!) just to save BioPort’s skin – UGH!”
Now go ahead. Rewind the tape. Remember how US Attorney Taylor’s based his Ivins Theory on three reasons. One was the drying equipment that, it turned out, was not available for him to use in the B3.
Another was Ivins never worked weekends and evenings — but suddenly inexplicable was. (No mention at all of the numerous small animal experiments).
What is the name of the DOJ/FBI employee who asked that this email be pulled from production? It was very wrong to cull it in light of the FBI’s Ivins Theory:
“Spending every possible moment here at work, including holidays, weekends and evenings (several times lately I’ve had to come in at night and work into the wee hours of the morning – no fun!) just to save BioPort’s skin – UGH!”
R. Scott Decker, in his book, admits that they had a complete set of Ivins’ emails in their office.
So either they did not master the documents or the FBI has played — and is continuing to play — a game of hide the ball.
All the evidence points to it being a combination of both.
But we don’t expect public servants to be all-knowing and always right. (In our own lives, we certainly are not). We only ask that they not selectively present evidence while failing to comply with the Freedom of Information Act.
Scott Decker: Don’t just pay lip service to the rule of law. Live it — even if it might reveal that you were mistaken in your conclusions in a career-making (or breaking) true crime case. Even if it might cause you to make less money selling your $38 book.
Encourage your former colleagues to cough up the documents.
Give to Ken what y’all gave to David Willman.
DXer said
One of the many emails that FBI’s Dave Hardy is still withholding is dated July 23, 2000.
According to David Wilman in his book, Ivins writes:
“It’s been a really stressful week, from all stand points. Home, work, andante it’s not going well with the counselor I’m going to (She said she thinks I went up to see you to have an affair.) I’m going to have to ask to get put with another counselor or go into a group therapy session… Sometimes, I think that it’s all just too much.” Now David Willman interviewed Judith M. McLean on three occasions: April 30 and May 3, 2010, and January 9, 2011. But he apparently did not realize that Judith McClean had written a book in 2009 — that was readily available for David to read — in which she explains that she was nutters in 2000 and thought she was controlled by an alien who had implanted a microchip in her butt. She says she thought that there were murderous astral entities attached to her clients in her new part-time addictions counseling gig who were trying to kill her.
At night, after 911, she dreamt of flying to Afghanistan and Ground Zero and then returning to her home, barely escaping the murderous astral entities by going through a vortex.
So it is any surprise that her complaints about Ivins being a murderous fiend were disregarded by the police and the psychiatrist who was covering for someone on vacation?
At the time of Dave’s interviews, he had all the evidence he needed not to credit her account. Googling is a basic step to take in due diligence required in reporting such claims.
********But let’s look past all that. IT IS A VIOLATION OF FOIA FOR THE FBI TO GIVE WILLMAN THESE EMAILS AND LET HIM SPIN THEM WITHOUT ALSO GIVING THEM TO KEN DILLON ***********
It was outrageous enough that the psychiatrist Gregory tried to profit from the sale of his report until I called foul. There is just no end to the amount of profiteering that has gone on at the expense of Bruce Ivins — and the highly selective presentation of evidence.
David Willman relies extensively upon Dr. Ivins’ first therapist, Judith M. McLean, who writes of how she acquired her psychic abilities in her book available for sale on Amazon.com — from a being from another planet
Posted by Lew Weinstein on June 11, 2011
https://caseclosedbylewweinstein.wordpress.com/2011/06/11/david-willman-relies-extensively-upon-dr-ivins-first-therapist-judith-m-mclean-who-writes-of-how-she-acquired-her-psychic-abilities-in-her-book-available-for-sale-on-amazon-com/
Excerpts from David Willman’s key witness (from her book ASCENSION JOURNEY)
Posted by Lew Weinstein on June 18, 2011
https://caseclosedbylewweinstein.wordpress.com/2011/06/18/excerpts-from-david-willmans-key-witness-in-his-book-mirage-man/
the material on the CASE CLOSED blog about Judith McLean (see prior posts linked below) is relevant to an evaluation of the validity of David Willman’s conclusions in his recently published “The Mirage Man” … because Willman himself, in his publicity blurb (see below), shows just how much he relied on the psychic who says … she was granted her abilities by an extraterrestrial being … got sick in 2001 from doing astral recovery work at Ground Zero and in Afghanistan after 9/11 … and was pursued by nasty Taliban entities
Posted on June 12, 2011
https://caseclosedbylewweinstein.wordpress.com/2011/06/12/why-is-all-this-material-about-judith-mclean-relevant-to-an-evaluation-of-the-validity-of-david-willman%e2%80%99s-conclusions-in-his-recently-published-%e2%80%9cthe-mirage-man%e2%80%9d-because/
NYT interview of former lead Amerithrax investigator Richard Lambert: “a staggering amount of exculpatory evidence” regarding Dr. Ivins remains secret
Posted on July 16, 2016
https://caseclosedbylewweinstein.wordpress.com/2016/07/16/nyt-interview-of-former-lead-amerithrax-investigator-richard-lambert-a-staggering-amount-of-exculpatory-evidence-regarding-dr-ivins-remains-secret/