Tuesday, January 05, 2010

More questions about the Anthrax letters

Michael Barone notes:

Here’s some news I missed.Edward Jay Epstein reported on December 21 that the FBI’s anthrax case has fallen apart. ... Epstein reports, it turns out that Dr. Ivins did not have access to the sophisticated form of anthrax used in September 2001.

and even in 2008, NYTimes reporters noted that even if he had access to this strain of anthrax (which was a common barnyard strain used to make vaccines), he lacked expertise in weaponizing the anthrax...

(Technical note: Anthrax tends to clump up...to weaponize it you have to grind up the spores, and then add something to stop the clumping...all in an environment that protects you from inhaling the spores, something that is a bit expensive to do.)

Of course, if you are an insomniac, you already "know" about this...LINK2...

Of course, one doesn't have to be a conspiracy theorist to wonder if the investigation hounded an innocent scientist to his death.

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