The Brad Blog notes that the WaPo is doing strange things with their anthrax stories:

While their top story on page A1 today is headlined "Scientists Question FBI's Probe of Anthrax Attacks" and sub-titled "Ivins Could Not Have Been Attacker, Some Say," the paper nonetheless managed to scrub from their website --- or at least completely replace --- a story they ran originally on Friday afternoon questioning the same points (whether Ivins had the means, ability or access to the dry, weaponized anthrax used in the attack letters against senior Democratic Senators and other perceived "liberals") with another that greatly softened concerns about those questions.

No retraction or correction notice --- unethically, in our opinion --- was given for WaPo's odd swaperoo. The Friday WaPo story we linked to that day --- which was dated "Friday, August 1, 2008; 5:46 PM" and reported that that the purported "Anthrax Killer", Bruce E. Ivins "had no access to dry, powdered anthrax" at his U.S. Army bioweapons lab in Fort Detrick, MD --- was simply swapped out with a completely different story in its place on the matter, dated Saturday, August 2, 2008. The same URL was used for both stories, but the Saturday story didn't have the bulk of the reporting which quoted named experts and colleagues questioning Ivins' ability to even carry out such an attack.

And the FBI just seized a couple of PCs from Ivin's local library (apparently without a warrant):

http://wtopnews.com/?nid=598&sid=1452848

That New York Post story has this very interesting bit:

A former senior official at the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases - the high-security lab in Maryland where Ivins worked for 36 years - believed the mad researcher mailed the anthrax-laced letters to move government resources to his field.

"It had to have been a motive," the official told the LA Times. "I don't think he ever intended to kill anybody. He just wanted to prove 'Look, this is possible.' He probably had no clue that it would aerosolize through those envelopes and kill those postal workers."

First of all, who is this "former senior official"? Was he a member of the Camel Club or one who turned a blind eye to it? Was he one of the people responsible for the supposedly lax security? And why is he talking anonymously if he no longer works there and Ivins is dead?

Secondly, what is this about anthrax (or 'thrax, as NYP calls it) "aerosolizing" through an envelope? Is that meant to explain why something that wasn't a powder could act like a powder? Any scientific evidence of that?