Richard G. Rappaport, an associate clinical psychiatry professor at the University of California, San Diego, who examined the court papers at the request of The New York Times, said Dr. Ivins appeared to exhibit psychotic characteristics. It was possible, Dr. Rappaport said, that he was faking his mental ailment, in an effort to draw attention to himself. But he said he wondered why Dr. Ivins had been allowed to continue to work for so long in a high-security biodefense laboratory.
And there will be repercussions for that in the lab bureaucracy -- when?
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And he went on what he called "mindless drives" to mail gifts and letters anonymously, the document said, and then "set back the odometer in his car" to fool his wife.
O.k., now we're getting somewhere.
Posted by Jack Bog | August 7, 2008 4:29 AM
I'm skeptical of a case built largely on emails, which can be spoofed. Dr. Ivins was an eccentric man, and maybe also mentally ill, which would have made him very vulnerable and easily framed. Perhaps the FBI should be looking at the recipient of the emails which purportedly were written by Dr. Ivis. This unidentified co-worker has a lot of explaining to do, such as why he or she did not report Dr. Ivins to supervisors. Or if he or she did report Dr. Ivins, then the supervisors should explain why Dr. Ivins was allowed continued access to the lab.
Posted by Grumpy | August 7, 2008 7:46 AM
The Washington Post has done a better job of laying out the evidence against Dr. Ivins, although it is still circumstantial.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/06/AR2008080604020.html?hpid=topnews
There were reports to the police about Dr. Ivins made in 2000, before the anthrax attacks in 2001. Why did the FBI focus its investigation on Hatfill?
Posted by Grumpy | August 7, 2008 8:30 AM
Hey, I get to use one of my favorite Dr. Strangelove quotes: "Well, I, uh, don't think it's quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up".
Posted by Rainfollower | August 7, 2008 12:40 PM
"Mistakes" by Justice Department in Ivins affidavits highlighted. Newsweek says anthrax case not closed. -- from Wayne Madsen Report .COM
Which is bad enough.
ANTHRAX - The Case Still Isn’t Closed.
But it gets worse when Newsweek quotes the actual documents unsealed by the court, using the actual FIB words:
Here. (pdf) Where there is 08-496 affidavit, dated Aug.7 (Ivins already dead) saying back in 2001, after 9/11 and before the anthrax mail murders happened, Ivins sent an email which is quoted, to sound like the scrawled 'notes' which were (later) in the envelopes.
How conve-e-e-e-e-enient.
There was traces of the 7-years old email on his computer, I guess.
What is totally unbelievable about EVERYthing the FIB says about Ivins, iS; first, that they say it, and second, that the massmind media reports it. When, for 8 years, the official government has NOT said ANYthing official, and the media has investigated NOTHING to report. Now all of a sudden, presto!, there's a whole-cloth pre-fab storyline and everyone is on the same page.
I don't even know which factual detail(s) is false, I just know none of it is true.
Since they disappeared the body and never did an autopsy, the first thing I think is not true is that he committed suicide.
And presuming I expect to see that, zut alors!, when I look at his astrology chart, guess what? I see it. Ivins horoscope is not suicidal. It is, however, impetuous and hot-tempered, even vengeful ... which is stronger than the suicide -- it is so important to the wrathful native (horoscope) that he isn't going to quit (i.e. suicide) before he gets it, vengence. (This is Leo Mars square Taurus Sun, and a Capricorn Moon at the foundation of it, for those who are follow such things -- 4/22/46, 75-days older than Chimp-in-Chief, same declasse vintage, same anti-sociology.)
Posted by Tenskwatawa | August 10, 2008 10:50 PM