Bruce Ivins
Sean Sailor
March 2, 2010
After a 8 year investigation the FBI officially closed it’s “Amerithrax” case last month claiming deceased microbiologist Bruce Ivins “acted alone” in the October, 2001 anthrax mailings that resulted in the deaths of 5 people.
This however, is one “conspiracy theory” only an outright loon would believe, as it lacks any evidence linking Mr Ivins to the crime, even circumstantially.
A quick rundown of the facts are:
Nothing ties Ivins to the letters. Nothing ties the anthrax to Ivins either. He was one of over 100 others that had access the same materials. Material that was not of the type sent in the letters. Ivins did not have access to the type of weaponized anthrax used in the attack, nor was he able to make it himself.
“In my opinion, there are maybe four or five people in the whole country who might be able to make this stuff, and I’m one of them,” said Richard O. Spertzel, former deputy commander of USAMRIID
Indeed, an electron microscope, which costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, would be needed to manufacture such a highly refined product. Not to mention years of specialized training that Ivins also lacked.
There must be something that ties this crime to Ivins? the incredulous reader might be asking himself at this point. No and no again I will answer, there is none.
The FBI’ s released documents show there was no evidence, no testimony, no witnesses and no confession of guilt. These same FBI documents reveal that the majority of the investigation centered upon finding something sexual in nature to hang upon Mr. Ivins.
Lacking any evidence that he was somehow linked to the terrorist attacks, the FBI then targeted the investigation on Ivins’ sex life and preferences.
Hundreds of FBI man hours were then spent investigating what kind of magazines Ivins enjoyed, his sexual preferences and making calls to mail order purveyors of marital aids to see if someone might remember him.
Weeks of Special Agent time was poured into finding out if Ivins was the same man who played a few songs at a sorority house in Nashville decades ago.
Amazingly, no one could remember.
Ivins spent tens of thousands of dollars defending himself against a case that, in the end, centered around his sexual proclivities and had nothing to do with the capital crime for which he was “suspected” of.
A read through the available case documents shows a man many years active in his church and charities such as the Red Cross, with no criminal record.
A man who was, in the words of a colleague, “hounded” by the FBI with multiple raids upon his home, interrogations, surveillance and compelled grand jury appearances. He passed 2 lie detector tests, survived multiple audits of his workplace and went through an incredible amount of strain.
In the end however, the FBI was unable to link Mr Ivins in the Amerithrax attacks no matter how many panty sniffing FBI agents went into the field to investigate sorority houses.
The FBI would have had to give up, until a curious thing happened on July 27, 2008: Bruce Ivins killed himself.
In the end, the “dangerous” scientist killed himself with Tylenol, leaving no suicide note. Even though he had protested his innocence to the end and had recently emailed a friend that he had no intention of killing himself.
Just days after Ivins’ “suicide” the government stance changed from that of being unable to charge him, to that he did it. Not only that, but lacking any evidence that he did do it, they were never the less sure he acted had alone.
On August 6, just 10 days after Ivins death, U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Taylor, officially made a statement that Ivins was the “sole culprit” in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
That has been the official government line since that time, culminating in the FBI official closing of the case with the same pronouncement.
Again, lacking any evidence tying him to the terrorist attacks, they have instead accused Mr. Ivins of being a cross-dresser and point out that they found girly magazines when going through his trash.
The mainstream press in America, like the lap-dogs that they are, sensed the tone of how they were to cover it from that point and have obliged the government almost completely since that time. Ignoring the fact that no evidence exists to link Ivins to the crime, they smear him as the “anthrax letter scientist” cross-dresser that’s “into bondage”.
Fox News, whose commentators regularly accuse anyone that suggests 9/11 needs to be re-investigated as being a “nut” that thinks something as preposterous as ‘our own government” was responsible, has no problem saying the same with the Amerithrax case. They have to. Everyone knows the anthrax came from Ft. Detrick.
For some reason, instead of “our own government” its a Benedict Arnold amongst us. Something that must never have occurred to them concerning 9/11. Because they keep saying “own government” as if every single person in the government down to the lowest postal worker would have had to been in on it.
No problem with that in the Amerithrax case though. No mention of it being a “loony” idea that “our own government” did it, no commentators stating that the FBI position is “blasphemous”.
So much for an “inside job” being crazy: MSM loves the idea with the Ivins case. They don’t even need any evidence. Nor are they interested in any. It’s good enough for them to quote a FBI agent as saying that he heard Ivins himself say he was a cross-dresser, then proceed to list what the FBI found in their panty raids.
As to the Amerithrax crime? They covered that part in the headline Anthrax Letter Scientist ‘Obsessed’ With Bondage, Sorority. What more proof do you need?
As for myself, none.
I have all the proof I need to know that the MSM would get on the airwaves tomorrow and announce that the moon was made of cheese- if only they could be convinced that it’s the official government position on the matter.
Sean Sailor March, 2010
