Anthrax

[Not Afraid]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

I was thinking of this one.

No, that's not a theme song, rather the theme band.

[BarTopDancer]

This just doesn't sit right.

Fed's say Ivins alone was responsible.

[Alex]

I haven't much opinion and since a full trial will never be held everybody will get to pick and choose whatever they want without much official record to counter any story.

But assuming that the information in the released documents today isn't just fabricated out of whole cloth then while maybe he didn't do it he certainly wasn't the great nice person others have been saying.

[Motorboat Cruiser]

My main concern has never been how nice a guy he was. Statements from many in his life did claim that he was though. Still, I'm not sure, at least in what I've read today, that there is anything to suggest that he was unstable back in 2001. Opinionated, sure, but they seem to be relying on the statement of one lone individual as to his recent stability, and she seems pretty unstable as well. Not to mention, what if this mental instability was the result of the investigation?

Regardless, I didn't see anything in the case they laid out today that wasn't circumstantial, and even that has holes.

But Richard Spertzel, a former colleague of Ivins at Fort Detrick, said no one working at a U.S. government lab could have produced such high-quality anthrax in secret.

[Alex]

Of course you didn't see anything that wasn't circumstantial. The DoJ explicitly said "this is a circumstantial case." He also said he felt it was a strong enough circumstantial case to have won in court.

We'll never know.