* Who was the figure working alone on the dried powder project at USAMRIID in Building 1412? Who did that person receive all direction on the project from?

* Microbiologist Robert J. Hawley, Chief of USAMRIID’s Safety Office, in his deposition produced today, testified that prior to 2002, security check of foreign nationals accessing B3 labs at USAMRIID was not a responsibility of the safety office.

* The Second Circuit Court of Appeal To Hear Oral Argument In Case Which Involves Fact That US DOJ And USAMRIID Hid The Fact USAMRIID Made Dried Powder Out Of The Ames Strain; Should Plaintiffs Be Time-Barred And Charged With Knowing What The USG Actively Concealed From Them?

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* More on dried aerosol project: Was it Southern Research Institute that was considered for the contract? Who thought he was above the investigation?

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* From first 11/5/2001 meeting, it was lab of the FBI anthrax expert that was an identical genetic match to mailed anthrax. Didn’t this lead to the tremendous game of hide-the-ball that ensued over the fact that Flask 1029 had been used to make a dried powder?

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* FBI Special Agents took special care to make sure that no one learned that the FBI’s expert at USAMRIID had made a dried powder out of Flask 1029 … why?

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LMW COMMENT …

When the FBI keeps vital information secret, it behooves us to know why they have done so. In particular, what connection is there between the withholding of this information and the FBI continuing to assert their unproven conclusion that “Dr. Ivins was the only person responsible for these attacks.”

* more about USAMRIID’s dried anthrax powder

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The samples were received by Terry Abshire, who had been thanked by the DARPA researchers using the dried powder that the FBI’s anthrax expert had made from Ivins’ Flask 1029.

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* why did the FBI keep evidence of John Ezzell’s dried powder from the NAS?

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Throughout the investigation the FBI kept secret that the FBI’s anthrax expert at USAMRIID, John Ezzell, had made a dried powder out of RMR 1029 (which was the flask used for all wet aerosol challenges with Ames at USAMRIID from 1997 until 2002).  In the 9600 pages provided to the NAS, the FBI withheld all documents relating to this from the NAS.  Did the FBI scientists do this for national security reasons — or to cover their ass?

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* The Ames that Dr. Ezzell’s lab used to make the dried powder was from Flask 1029. Was that the only time dried powder was made for the DARPA researchers out of Ames?

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CASE CLOSED is Lew Weinstein’s novel about the FBI’s “botched” investigation

of the 2001 anthrax attacks

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read the CASE CLOSED opening scene …

* CASE CLOSED – opening scene … the DIA re-investigates the FBI’s failed case

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* Was the dried powdered Bacillus anthracis given Dr. Ivins to test really from Iraq? (Or was he just told that?).

The FBI’s case against Dr. Ivins is bogus: no evidence, no witnesses, an impossible timeline. The real question is why the FBI persists in sticking to such a pathetic story. What are they hiding? I offer one “fictional” scenario in my novel CASE CLOSED, judged by many readers, including a highly respected official in the U.S. Intelligence Community, as “quite plausible.”

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