Steven Hatfill settled on June 27,2008.

On June 29, 2008 this article -- http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/news/display.htm?StoryID=76902

-- appeared in the Frederick News Post. The article is about Duley and how she uses suboxone, an anti-addiction, prescription-only treatment in her practice.

This article is interesting because it could represent an attempt to give Duley a public profile as a 'therapist'. Duley is referred to as the "program director at Comprehensive Counseling Associates in Frederick", although it does not say what her level of licensure is, or if she has a license at all. Moreover, as suboxone is available only by prescription, it seems odd that the reporter is discussing this treatment with Duley as an expert.

There's also nothing newsworthy about suboxone. It was approved by the FDA in 2002.

I'd like to know the genesis of this article. Who suggested it? Why did the paper consider it of interest to their readers? And how did Duley -- who is quoted and even appears in a photo holding a bottle of suboxone -- become a source for this piece?

Great work Glenn. Let's make the legs grow longer on this one.

It's worth noting that on June 29, 2008, the Frederick News Post ran an article about Duley and her use of the anti-addiction prescription drug suboxone in her 'practice' (specifically, her 'support groups') at Comprehensive Counseling.

There is nothing newsworthy in the article. Suboxone has been available by prescription since 2002.

The article featured a photo of Duley, holding a bottle of suboxone. Never mind that she's not a doctor and cannot prescribe suboxone or that any drug treatment is well outside her scope of practice. Yet the paper talks to her like she's an expert. Clearly, the FNP didn't do much digging on Duley -- if so, they would have discovered her own history of substance abuse, which would make her less credible.

Given that Steven Hatfill settled on June 27, 2008, it's very curious indeed that Duley is suddenly appearing in a newspaper as an expert therapist on June 29.

Whose idea was this article? How did Duley come to be the expert source? When did the FNP first contact Duley about an interview?

The only other source for Bruce Ivins's 'dark side' is his brother Tom.

Bruce Ivins's brother Tom hadn't spoken to him from 1985 but that didn't prevent him from cited in the LAT article as one of the key sources for the FBI's 'case.' In Tom Ivins's own words, he "sang like a canary."

From WCPO in Cincinnati:

"It was his own fault, I thought," said Tom Ivins. "What he did, he screwed himself up. He got involved with the wrong people."

(http://www.wcpo.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=d3774239-744f-4908-904c-d9cf8b55e154)

Meanwhile, Sunday's Baltimore Sun (http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/crime/bal-te.md.ivins03aug03,0,1282203.story) interviewed some of the neighbors from where Bruce Ivins grew up. In 2007 and 2008, the FBI gave neighbors the cover story that Bruce Ivins had faked his own death:

Barbara Weisenfelder didn't believe the FBI agents for one minute. They had told the director of this village's historical museum that they had come all the way from Washington to interview residents as part of an insurance fraud investigation.

The agents said Bruce Ivins, 62, the youngest son of the town's long-deceased druggist, had faked his death. And they wanted to know everything about him and his family.

Glenn, you wrote:

There are two ways Ivins is being accused and convicted in the media -- (1) claims that the FBI has mountains of evidence against him and (2) depictions that underneath his mild-mannered scientist facade lurked a crazed, disturbed killer.

Jean Duley is absolutely the leading witness -- the only witness -- for proposition (2)

The other witness is Tom Ivins, who told the LA Times and AP that Bruce "considered himself like a god" and claimed to have "sung like a canary" to the FBI, despite not having spoken to his brother since 1985.