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    My Conversation With a Ft. Detrick Scientist

    2001 Anthrax Attacks | anthrax | Anthrax attacks | weaponized anthrax

    Today (August 9), I spoke with a PhD scientist who works at Ft. Detrick. The scientist knows Dr. Bruce Ivins very well and has worked with him for many years.

    The scientist is an acquaintance of mine who I've known for about five years.

    The scientist is a specialist in infectious diseases, including airborne diseases.

    The scientist does not want their name given out. The FBI has told all the scientists at Ft. Detrick they cannot speak with the media or they will be fired.

    [Its interesting to note that scientists at Ft. Detrick can't exercise their first amendment rights, but the FBI can illegally leak confidential investigative information to the media. Its also interesting that some of the info leaked to the media by FBI informants is not legitimate investigative material, but instead, material meant to character assassinate Dr. Ivins. Its also interesting that the FBI leakers can avoid detection, given the Patriot Act.]

    The scientist's eyewitness statements and expert opinions are based on personal knowledge, not media reports, and the scientist has not read hardly any news articles about Dr. Ivins. The scientist has heard media reports that have character assassinated the good name of Dr. Ivins. I will be sending some important news articles regarding the anthrax case to the scientist today.

    The scientist's political views tend to lean on the right side, while the views of Dr. Ivins tend to lean on the left side. This is based on the fact that the scientist tends to vote republican or conservative libertarian, while Dr. Ivins was a regular voter in democratic primaries. Therefore, the statements of the scientist have nothing to do with politics, and everything to do with the facts.

    The scientist says that "Dr. Bruce Ivins is innocent and that all the scientists who worked with him know he is innocent".

    The scientists says that "Dr. Ivins doesn't have a motive to kill anyone", and was instead, "dedicated to saving lives by making anthrax vaccines". "Dr. Ivins has 30 years of service in protecting human life".

    The scientist says that "Dr. Ivins did not make weaponized anthrax, does not know how to make weaponized anthrax, and does not have the equipment to make weaponized anthrax".

    The scientists says that this holds true for every scientist at Ft. Detrick, and "none made weaponized anthrax, none know how to make, nor do any have the equipment to make it".

    The scientist says all the scientists at Ft. Detrick have been harassed by the FBI. The scientist says that the "FBI harassment has been totally awful and disgusting the way the scientists were treated".

    The scientist says that "two doctors who came over form the Soviet Union and work at the facility think the FBI's behavior is worse than the KGB".

    The scientist says that "Dr. Ivins was driven crazy and racked with fear from the FBI harassment which amounted to psychological torture".

    The scientist says the "FBI essentially murdered Dr. Ivins by driving him crazy".

    The scientist says that "Dr. Ivins innocent and doesn't know who sent the anthrax".

    http://www.911blogger.com/node/17058#comment-194263

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    I also spoke with a PhD scientist that works there. He said Ivins did it.

    I have just as much proof of the conversation as this .

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    The scientist says that "Dr. Ivins innocent and doesn't know who sent the anthrax".
    What the kind of quote is that? Did he interview Dr. Tonto?

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    I also spoke with a PhD scientist that works there. He said Ivins did it.

    I have just as much proof of the conversation as this .
    so that means you never read all the bull leaked by the FBI?

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    What the kind of quote is that? Did he interview Dr. Tonto?
    what's wrong with the quote?

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    so that means you never read all the bull leaked by the FBI?
    I have read all the bull posted by you.

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    what's wrong with the quote?
    Do you say "I doesn't" and not use verbs?

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    Fort Detrick Scientist: Ivins Innocent, FBI Worse Than KGB!
    http://www.barrettforcongress.us/

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    Everything is a conspiracy!!!!

    No -- Really.

    Everything is a conspiracy!!!!

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    Everything is a conspiracy!!!!

    No -- Really.

    Everything is a conspiracy!!!!
    Not everything. Defending an innocent man is NOT a conspiracy.

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    Q: If Dr. Bruce Ivins was the anthrax killer, why didn't he kill himself with anthrax?

    Huh?

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    Sounds like your conspiring to conspire

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    Not everything. Defending an innocent man is NOT a conspiracy.
    But surely there's some massive governmental conspiracy to target an innocent man -- of all people in our nation, this innocent man! -- and allege that he's responsible for killing a half dozen people.

    Q: If Dr. Bruce Ivins was the anthrax killer, why didn't he kill himself with anthrax?

    Huh?
    Perhaps because he wanted to take an easier way out and not have to wait a long time for death to occur. That, or, there would be the crazy possibility that he had been immunized from anthrax, given the nature of his work . . . .

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    Q: If Dr. Bruce Ivins wasn't the anthrax killer, why did he kill himself with Tylenol?

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    Conclusive evidence of means, motive and opportunity are missing
    Case Analysis in a Nuts

    1. Ivins cannot be placed at the Princeton mailbox at either of the two times he would have to have been there.

    2. There are additional hoax letters that have not been discussed by FBI in the information released Wednesday; may we assume Ivins could not be placed at those mailbox locations during the requisite windows of opportunity?

    3. No official evidence has come forward indicating the nature of the Daschle/Leahy spore preparation, nor whether Ivins possessed the knowledge regarding its production, or access to the necessary equipment.

    4. No convincing motive has been presented, although a variety of implausible motives have been suggested.

    5. Although many other people with a strong motive can be identified, there is no evidence they were investigated by FBI and exculpated.

    6. "The FBI sought out the best experts in the scientific community and, over time, four highly sensitive and specific tests were developed that were capable of detecting the unique qualities of the anthrax used in the 2001 attacks." However, details about the microbial forensic analysis have not been released, and may not be available for months or years pending publication. Scientists doubt that any forensic analysis can do more than identify the precise strain of anthrax.

    7. The pre-franked envelopes could not be identified as coming from Ivins' post office, as initially claimed, but were instead sold in multiple post offices, none of which was definitely in Frederick.

    8. Ivins was not the "sole custodian" of the RMR-1029 strain; over 100 people had access to it and they may have shared it with others. How was Ivins selected as a suspect and the others exonerated?

    9. Handwriting analysis has not linked him to the crime.

    10. He could not be linked to the Quantico letter that fingered Dr. Assaad. He could not be linked to any efforts to finger Dr. Hatfill.

    11. No physical evidence links him to the crime: this includes the tape on the letters, fibers, human DNA, spores in his car, home or personal effects, evidence of any kind he travelled to the areas where the letters were mailed, including purchasing enough gasoline for a 7 hour trip to Princeton, twice.

    12. He passed two polygraph examinations at Fort Detrick.

    13. Since the FBI has been unable to build a convincing case against any one individual in the 7 years since the letters were sent, why didn't it focus on identifying a conspiracy of individuals who together may have been able to perform the complex actions required to send the anthrax letters and hoax letters?

    Posted by Meryl Nass, M.D. at 9:45 AM
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    Open Questions on a Closed Case



    by Gerry Andrews



    ON Wednesday, the United States Justice Department revealed its evidence that Dr. Bruce E. Ivins, on his own, committed the worst act of bioterrorism in the country’s history. This 18-year veteran scientist of the United States Army Medical Research Ins ute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Md., is accused of killing five people and sickening 17 others in the fall of 2001. Dr. Ivins died on July 29 of an apparent suicide without a chance to give his side of the story.



    After reading the affidavits and listening to the Justice Department briefing, I was both disheartened and perplexed by the lack of physical evidence supporting a conviction.



    Dr. Ivins was a friend and colleague of mine for nearly 16 years. We worked together at Fort Detrick. He was a senior scientist, and I was, first, a bench scientist and, from 1999 to 2003, the chief of the bacteriology division.



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    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/10/op...=1&oref=slogin



    Gerry Andrews is an assistant professor of microbiology at the University of Wyoming.



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    But surely there's some massive governmental conspiracy to target an innocent man -- of all people in our nation, this innocent man! -- and allege that he's responsible for killing a half dozen people.
    The guy is innocent, you figure it out.

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    The guy is innocent, you figure it out.
    No, you tell us why the FBI made all of this up to frame an American instead of Iraq and/or Al Qaeda and why they didn't make up more to have a less ambiguous case against the American they had no reason to frame.

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    Anthrax Attack Was State-Sponsored Terror (But the State Was America)
    The chief biological inspector for the U.N. Special Commission from 1994 to 1998 - who describes himself as one of the "four or five people in the whole country" who could make the type of anthrax used in the 2001 attacks - noted in testimony to Congress:


    "I have maintained from the first descriptions of the material contained in the Daschle letter that the quality appeared to be such that it could be produced only by some group that was involved with a current or former state program in recent years. The level of knowledge, expertise, and experience required and the types of special equipment required to make such quality product takes time and experimentation to develop. Further, the nature of the finished dried product is such that safety equipment and facilities must be used to protect the individuals involved and to shield their clandestine activity from discovery."
    Similarly, a manufacturer of specialized anthrax equipment said:

    "You would need [a] chemist who is familiar with colloidal [fumed] silica, and a material science person to put it all together, and then some mechanical engineers to make this work . . . probably some containment people, if you don't want to kill anybody. You need half a dozen, I think, really smart people."
    The U.N. biologist mentioned above also said that the equipment to make such high-tech anthrax does not exist at Fort Detrick, where Ivins worked. People who work at Fort Detrick have confirmed this.

    In other words, a lone scientist couldn't have done it without the support of a whole government laboratory. And Fort Detrick was not one such potential laboratory.

    What Does the FBI Say?

    Until 2006, the FBI seemed to support this conclusion, but then suddenly and inexplicably changed its mind. According to the New York Times, the FBI changed its mind and took the position that the anthrax was not high-tech -- and thus could have been produced by a "lone nut" -- based upon a single paper published by one of its scientists.

    The new theory was shown to be unsupported by any evidence in a various scientific papers
    (see this and this). And even the editor of the journal in which the new FBI hypothesis was published later criticized the article:

    "The statement should have had a reference. An unsupported sentence being cited as fact is uncomfortable to me. Any statement in a scientific article should be supported by a reference or by do entation."
    In other words, the FBI scientist just made up the new claim that the anthrax was not so high-tech that it had to have been made by a government-sponsored bioweapons program.

    So why did the FBI change its tune, based upon an unsupported statement by one of its scientists?

    Well, if the evidence pointed to state-sponsored terror, ruled out states the U.S. government wanted to blame the attack on (such as Iraq), and actually pointed towards America as being the "state sponsor", the government might want to distract people from the true culprits, right? Especially given that producing weaponized anthrax violates laws to which the U.S. is a signatory, and could cons ute war crimes, right?

    Indeed, on September 4, 2001, the New York Times revealed that the government was going to produce a highly-potent anthrax strain at a military lab in Ohio.

    And Dugway Proving Grounds had been producing high-grade, dry, weaponized anthrax for quite some time before the attacks, and had shipped Ames strain anthrax "back and forth" with Fort Detrick.

    Since 16 labs and many hundreds of people had access to the exact strain of anthrax used in the attacks, a state-sponsored operation could have been set up almost anywhere in the U.S.

    They needed a patsy to pin the attacks on and deflect the fact that this was a false flag operation which also implicated an illegal bioweapons program.

    The anthrax attacks was a crime in search of a patsy.

    And see this.
    Posted by George Washington at 9:35 AM
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    http://georgewashington2.blogspot.co...sponsored.html

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    Well, if the evidence pointed to state-sponsored terror, ruled out states the U.S. government wanted to blame the attack on (such as Iraq), and actually pointed towards America as being the "state sponsor", the government might want to distract people from the true culprits, right? Especially given that producing weaponized anthrax violates laws to which the U.S. is a signatory, and could cons ute war crimes, right?
    Since they made up all the evidence, they could have just made up evidence pointing away from US sources and towards Iraq, right?

    Right?

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    And Dugway Proving Grounds had been producing high-grade, dry, weaponized anthrax for quite some time before the attacks, and had shipped Ames strain anthrax "back and forth" with Fort Detrick.
    So, wait -- either my feeble mind is misunderstanding this sentence or it would seem that this sentence indicates that the sort of anthrax that Fort Detrick couldn't produce was, in fact, available at Fort Detrick. Am I missing something?

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    So, wait -- either my feeble mind is misunderstanding this sentence or it would seem that this sentence indicates that the sort of anthrax that Fort Detrick couldn't produce was, in fact, available at Fort Detrick. Am I missing something?
    you are missing something, read the whole article.

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    Since 16 labs and many hundreds of people had access to the exact strain of anthrax used in the attacks, a state-sponsored operation could have been set up almost anywhere in the U.S.
    Since Ivins had access to the exact strain of anthrax used in the attacks, a single-person operation could have been set up at Fort Dietrick.

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    you are missing something, read the whole article.
    I've read the article. It says to me that it would take all sorts of people and equipment to make that strain of anthrax and that none of those things existed at Fort Detrick. But it also says that the strain of anthrax in question was shipped to Fort Detrick from another lab, ostensibly one that was capable of producing that strain of anthrax. As such, the article would seem to suggest that the Ames strain of anthrax was available at Fort Detrick, despite the limitations of the labs at Fort Detrick.

    Rather than this coy routine, why don't you explain where I'm incorrect.

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