* NAS anthrax panel meetings – links for audio provided by NAS

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Here’s what readers say about CASE CLOSED  …

“Case Closed reads fast and well. It could have happened just the way the author said. Full of intrigue mixed in with almost current events. The real people are just behind the fictional ones.”

“An action/thriller that makes you think … The writing is sparse, driven by a plausible plot that allows the reader to think through the crime/mystery along with the protagonist.

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NAS panel meetings 9/24/09 & 9/25/09

links for audio provided by NAS …

http://nationalacademies.org/newsroom/nalerts/20090925.html

The NAS is to be congratulated for the speed with which they provided these links

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Agenda for September 24, 2009 Open Session

• 2:00 Use of Preliminary Validated Assays in Exigent Circumstances, Steven Schutzer, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
• 2:30 Overview of the Scientific Investigation, Rita Colwell, University of Maryland College Park and Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health
• 3:00 Identification of Bacillus anthracis Ames Strain, Paul Keim, Northern Arizona University
• 3:45 Identification of Morphological Variants, Patricia Worsham, USAMRIID
• 4:15 Genetic Analysis of Bacillus anthracis Ames Strain, David Rasko, Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine
• 4:45 – 6:00 … Discussion

Agenda for September 25, 2009 Open Session

• 9:00 Microscopy/Weaponization of Bacillus anthracis, Joseph Michael, Sandia National Laboratory
• 9:40 Nano-scale secondary ion mass spectroscopy, Peter Weber, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

* Adam Behsudi (FrederickNewsPost.com) … the CASE CLOSED blog keeps questioning the FBI’s anthrax case

WHY did the FBI fail to solve the 2001 anthrax case?

WHO had the power to divert the FBI from the truth?

CASE CLOSED offers a fictional scenario that answers those questions

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the CASE CLOSED blog keeps questioning the FBI’s anthrax case

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Adam Behsudi wrote several stories about the anthrax case in today’s (7-26-09) FrederickNewsPost.com. The story excerpted below, headlined Anthrax Case: Amerithrax debate lives online, shows the important role our CASE CLOSED blog is continuing to play in raising relevant questions about the FBI’s anthrax investigation …

• For the past year, government officials have remained quiet on the case accusing Fort Detrick scientist Bruce Ivins of the deadly anthrax letter attacks.
  • Not so on the Internet, where a handful of people have turned Amerithrax into an ongoing discussion.
  • … bloggers have been filing Freedom of Information Act requests and working sources just as any experienced reporter would.
• “I think it’s kept it alive. Its provided a place for reporters and others to go from time to time and look for facts and opinions,” said Lew Weinstein, who wrote a fictional novel based on the Amerithrax case titled “CASE CLOSED.”
• Weinstein said the facts, or what he perceives as a lack thereof, infuriated him to the point of writing CASE
  

  Lew Weinstein

  CLOSED. He maintains a blog with the same name, trying to debunk the FBI case against Ivins.

• Weinstein, who splits his time between Key West, Fla., and Collioure, France, was once a congressional candidate, has degrees from Princeton and the Harvard Business School and retired in 2005 as the CEO of a biomedical research organization.
• “I am amazed at the level of scientific discourse that’s taking place on my blog,” said Weinstein, who called from a trip he was taking with his wife to Lithuania. “This is not simply a crime story. There’s more to it than that,” he said.
• Ed Lake has been studying the case since 2001. Eight years ago he started a website to compile facts, documents and his own analysis. Unlike Weinstein, Lake has found the FBI case against Ivins solid.
• Despite opposing viewpoints, Lake and Weinstein share an interest in the Amerithrax case that goes beyond the curiosity of most people.

read the entire article at … http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/news/display.htm?StoryID=93061