Anthrax

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I don't know how closely anyone has been following the developments in this case, but I have. Now, I don't think I have ever bought into any sort of conspiracy theory in my entire life. I think that Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy. I think we went to the moon. I don't think that our government toppled the twin towers or destroyed the Pentagon. And yet, the more I learn about the recent events in the Anthrax investigation, the less I am believing the official story.

First, there is the reaction from co-workers, who don't believe that he is the guy.

"The labs were not equipped, for instance, with a lot of the equipment that would have been required to supposedly dry this material down and create the highly refined state that it was in," said Adamovicz, who worked with Ivins for 12 years.


Adamovicz also said Ivins showed no signs of being homicidal or suicidal, including when he saw him just three weeks ago.


"He seemed ... quite conversant, and he was his old self," Adamovicz said of his former colleague.

Then there is the fact that the only negative opinions that have been reported of this guy are from a social worker, who seems to have a questionable past.

There is also the problem that the DNA tests that were supposedly used to trace the strain, not to Ivins, but just to his laboratory, should have been able to have easily been performed 6 years ago, but were just done recently. Also, although Ivins was a prime suspect for at least a year, his security clearance was only yanked a couple of weeks ago. Oh, and let's not forget that the last suspect successfully sued the government for being falsely accused. Richard Jewell, anyone?

And on top of all of this are the possible motives of the Bush administration who were desperately trying to pin this on Al Qaida and/or Iraq. Plenty of questions there as well, such as why did ABC News receive information from 4 separate sources in 2001 that the strain found had to have come from Iraq. Who were those sources exactly? Today's NY Daily News reports the following:

After the Oct. 5, 2001, death from anthrax exposure of Sun photo editor Robert Stevens, Mueller was “beaten up” during President Bush’s morning intelligence briefings for not producing proof the killer spores were the handiwork of terrorist mastermind Osama Bin Laden, according to a former aide.

“They really wanted to blame somebody in the Middle East,” the retired senior FBI official told The News.

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On October 15, 2001, President Bush said, “There may be some possible link” to Bin Laden, adding, “I wouldn’t put it past him.” Vice President Cheney also said Bin Laden’s henchmen were trained “how to deploy and use these kinds of substances, so you start to piece it all together.”

By the time Bush and Cheney were making those statements, they should have been aware that this particular strain was produced in the United States.

Perhaps it is just me, but I find this whole thing very suspicious. There is a very interesting article over at Slate, but they are far from the only ones that are sharing my suspicion.