Comments on: More Documents in the Case Against Bruce Ivins Released

By: El Dorkorino

El Dorkorino — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 12:48:21 +0000

Regardless of who did it (and I do think that the evidence is compelling for it being Ivins) the state of US bioweapon labs is unacceptable if this could happen. I agree that it should be very well protected and it sounds like there are too many holes in the guarding of weaponized anthrax. I really hope that it is not the same for something like the CDC’s smallpox sample! This is scary stuff!

Too bad it’s not as easy to keep from walking out the door as something like a radioisotope. You know, that gives me an idea. Maybe all the spore stock and breeding culture should have a gamma tracer added. That would make it a lot easier to keep it from leaving if they added some very sensitive portal monitors. They could make it easily traceable to a given lab and sample too with a unique signature. What do you think?

By: ERSNews.com

ERSNews.com — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:01:24 +0000

Interested in the Bruce Ivins/Anthrax case read this and pass it around the blogosphere ..

http://www.ersnews.com/permas_stories_updates/anthrax.htm

By: Mr Yuk

Mr Yuk — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:07:33 +0000

It is compelling. There was good science done to track down the origin of the spores, but I am not about to pat the investigators on the back too much. They worked on this a long time and in thge begining they were entirely down the wrong road. HE was there and should have stuck out like a sore thumb. Co-workers even were suspicious of him but it took them years to figure out that he was the one. It was only after they had traced the stuff to his lab and then basically eliminated everyone else.

More than anything else, I’m disgusted that there would be so lax security and checks and monitoring with something like weapons grade anthrax. How did this guy get high level clearance with his history of mental issues and continued disturbances? How did he keep it? Why did they ever let one person have the ability to have custody of the spores? Why is anyone given the freedom to come and go in the lab and potentially take the stuff as they want?

It seems obvious to me that something like anthrax spores of this type should be kept under better guard and with a paper trail for anyone who needs access to them etc.

By: Q

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:47:08 +0000

I’m not one to believe the government without doubt. I was skeptical of the investigation and this guy being the one but I read three or four of the documents posted and it seems to me like there is a mountain of evidence that points to this guy. He had a pattern of very disturbing behavior and the way he talked about the subject came close to an admission. He was also one of the only people who could have pulled this off.

I do still think there could be possibly others involved, maybe someone else knew something or helped him, but maybe or maybe not. There’s no evidence that anyone else was involved, but I’m just not convinced we can be sure there wasn’t. I am now 100% convinced he was behind it though. He probably acted alone because he seems the type that would, but I think they should continue to follow leads and not rule out there may be others out there involved.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:44:59 +0000

The man was as guilty as could be. The evidence is very compelling. Really for me though what seals it is that he killed himself. Okay, he might have been depressed and upset over the investigation but normally when someone is accused of something they did not do they want to defend themselves and proclaim their innocence. He didn’t even leave a suicide note. He didn’t leave anything saying that he was innocent but being forced to be the man who was at fault. He just gave no comment and ended it like he had nothing to say. Suicide is something that you don’t associate with false prosecution. It’s associated with someone who knows they have been caught and nothing is left to do. It’s over and they can’t defend themselves anymore. Jig is up.

That plus the evidence convinces me near 100%

There are some people who think it was a government conspiracy and he was murdered and it was made to look like a suicide to make him the fall guy. What I say to that aside from it being 100% unsupported by anything but speculation is “Why not blame it on someone more useful” They could have made Saddam Husein the fall guy. He’s also dead. It would have helped give some more argument to the war in Iraq and the WMD thing there.