The AnthraX Chronicles Part 7| Burying Truth & Dead(ly) Agents
The secret world of anthrax is deep, dark, and dirty.
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The AnthraX Chronicles Part 1| Spills of the Fort Detrick Kind
The AnthraX Chronicles Part 2 | Pakistan, Rabbit Fever & Duct Tape
The AnthraX Chronicles Part 3 | Anthrax Letters Revisited| Deliberate Deception
The AnthraX Chronicles Part 4 | Hero In The Morning, Bio-Terrorist By Night
The AnthraX Chronicles Part 5 | Bruce Ivins: Deep Into The Dust
Banking On A Memory Hole
Bruce Ivins may be dead, but the mystery behind the anthrax letters is not. It was memory-holed and then in February 2010, the FBI shut down its investigation. But many contend Ivins was railroaded by a flimsy web of lies.
A year after later, in February 2011, a separate panel from the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) found that prosecutors had overstated the certainty of their findings. It had been a decade since the anthrax letters. Committee members said newly available testing methods could prove the FBI’s case much more definitively or lead to other potential suspects. And that the scientific picture remained incomplete.
“Taken on its own, the science doesn't prove Ivins did it,” the panel stated. The new report also prefaced that it was limited to an evaluation of the scientific evidence and did not assess the guilt or innocence of anyone connected to the case.
"We have to decide ... how important this case is to us as a society, and I’m not presupposing it is," said David A. Relman, vice chairman of NAS and a professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
Sadly, the truth behind this case didn’t seem to be that important.
With that said, a re-examination of the anthrax case by PBS Frontline, McClatchy, and ProPublica also raised new questions about some of the evidence against Ivins.
The reporting uncovered previously undisclosed tensions between researchers who were trying to create a new form of forensic science and criminal investigators whose boss was under intense pressure from the president to crack a case that had few leads and hundreds of plausible suspects.
Additionally, many in the community, including scientists and support staff at USAMRIID, past and present ‘knew’ that Ivins was innocent.
“Bruce Ivins had nothing to do with preparing or sending the anthrax letters,” Sheila Casey wrote in a 2008 piece for Dissident Voice. “If this guy was such an obvious nutcase going back to his college days, how did he get a security clearance to work with biological weapons?”
By early July 2008, Ivins and his lawyer were aware that they were going to indict him. The walls were closing in. According to some, he was gang-stalked by the people who had billions to gain from his anthrax vaccine innovations. Later that same month, Ivins was admitted to a psych ward. After he was discharged, he supposedly picked up Tylenol on his way home before he committed suicide.
US Attorney Jeff Taylor characterized a flask in Dr. Ivin’s possession as “the murder weapon.” But a Dec. 12, 2001 article in the Baltimore Sun stated:
For nearly a decade, U.S. Army scientists at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah have made small quantities of weapons-grade anthrax that is virtually identical to the powdery spores used in the mail attacks that have killed five people.
Dugway was “the only site in the United States where weapons-grade anthrax has been made in recent years,” according to an article in the Dissident Voice. There were secret projects there that involved the CIA, and Battelle Memorial Laboratories in West Jefferson, Ohio.
The need to keep such projects secret was a significant reason behind President Bush’s recent rejection of a draft agreement to strengthen the germ-weapons treaty circa the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention, which was signed by 143 nations.
To critics, the DOJ-FBI news conference on August 6, 2008, was a deliberate attempt to divert attention from the secret anthrax weaponization projects by pinning the crimes on a dead man.
The distinguishing feature of the anthrax letters was not related to its genes. What made this anthrax unique was that it was highly weaponized. It wouldn’t become lethal unless produced in such a way that it behaves like a gas, floating easily in the air and deep into a victim’s lungs.
Ivins was an immunologist, Casey added. He had neither…