Note that some of the Repubs are resisting closing for recess and are shouting about Pelosi not allowing a vote on offshore oil drilling. (Look, shiny!!)

Wonder which will be the top story on tonight's news?

Are we supposed to believe that a man that worked for 38 years at the top bio-weapons lab in the US was sociopathic for most of his life?

Got the question and the answer in one sentence!

From this page:

ABC News Articles About Anthrax

http://www.anthraxinvestigation.com/abc.html

The government's top labs have run the Daschle anthrax sample through a series of tests. An electron microscope study found the Daschle spores looked "virtually identical" to those found in Iraq by U.N. weapons inspectors in 1994. But after subjecting it to a sophisticated X-ray test last week, the Army concluded it contained no bentonite, a clay comprised of several minerals, including aluminum.

For the Army, no aluminum equaled no bentonite.

"One of its principal ingredients is aluminum," said Maj. Gen. John Parker, overall commander of the military laboratories doing the analyses. "And I will say to you that we see no aluminum presence in the sample."

That assessment may prove correct, but not based solely on the absence of aluminum. ABCNEWS has learned that at least two European chemical companies make a processed, aluminum-free bentonite. Mineralogist William Moll, who has mainly worked in private industry, says these synthetic bentonites are used as "free-flow agents" that give dry powders a "fluid" or "slippery" quality as the particles float through the air. The existence of such bentonite means further tests are needed to rule out the presence of the troubling additive.

One of America's leading experts on mineral clays, Hayden Murray, a professor emeritus of geology at Indiana University, says a company based in Munich, Germany, removes aluminum from bentonite to create a finer, more refined additive than one could make from the bentonite deposits found in Iraq.

Murray says at least two American companies mine such high-quality bentonite, but the German company has a much larger customer base in the Middle East.

Last week, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer confirmed the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology found another additive — silica — in the Daschle anthrax. Like bentonite, silica is used in pharmaceutical powders all over the world and would make the anthrax float through the air more effectively.

As near as I can tell, about one quarter of the population has a sociopathic and psychopathic dispositions.

http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/news/display.htm?storyID=78270

has some more details about the restraining order. It had to do with testifying before the grand jury. Leastwise, it brings some doubt about whether he was committed because he was a threat to himself or a threat to others.

I have some real difficulties with some parts of this article, so I don't know how much to believe of it, but if the court documents cited are accurate, it points to multiple people knowing what was about to happen in court.

Sorry, I shouldn't have posted that, I missed this, and thereby probably have now caused some confusion.

A Followup on Bentonite

On Nov. 1, 2001, ABCNEWS.com ran the report above regarding the U.S. Army's analysis of the anthrax material sent to the office of Sen. Thomas Daschle. The report included the U.S. Army's statement that the sample had been found to contain no aluminum and therefore could be concluded to contain no bentonite.

The story also reported on suggestions that an unnamed German company might make a processed, aluminum-free bentonite. That company has contacted ABCNEWS.com and said that while it does remove some aluminum from bentonite, it does not remove all aluminum.

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"No more man, no more problem."

The Bush regime would find it very convenient indeed if the anthrax problem was buried with Mr. Ivins.

My guess is this man made the anthrax in the normal course of his creepy and immoral job - working for the US government.He would have had no idea what use it would be put to. As for ABC 'knews': it's common knowledge that sections of the US media and for that matter Wall Street were in the 9/11 plan and/or the anthrax plan all the way up to their necks and possibly higher than that. This wasn't a simple case of a false lead - this was deliberate misinformation directed at the American public by most news organizations for a very particular reason. That reason was the invasion of Iraq,the overthrow of its government and the theft of its oil, (which is proceeding apace). As we know, God gave oil to all the wrong people and that neeeded to be corrected. As for this man's 'suicide' I'm afraid I can only see it as the old story of 'the man who knew too much'.Thomas Keans, head of the 9/11 Commission, referring to false evidence given to the commission by two US generals(they had to be subpoenaed), talked about 'loose ends' that just never got tied. This is one loose end that definitely got tied. People who get in the way of the Bush Administration's version of 9/11 and the anthrax letters are just too dangerous to live. This scientist certainly couldn't be allowed to testify in a court case. Unless it was held at Guanatanamo Bay where the magic button and Kafkaesque laws would have ensured a guilty verdict, imprisonment and silence. His death is just more evidence that the lunatics are indeed running the asylum and if most people knew the kind of biological and chemical weapons these maniacs have control of, they'd never sleep again. ABC 'knews' knows who is responsible for 'false reports' about Iraq's involvement in the anthrax letters? Well, so do I. Here's a clue: his name's Dick.