apparently, his psychiatrist or THE psychiatrist felt he didn't meet the criteria.

What a waste. I've read nothing to suggest he had a history of threatening or violence or homicidal behavior prior to recent months, and even that is vague ... sounds like genuinely scary threats, perhaps of the "going postal" variety or were they directed at individuals for cause?

In any case, he has been smeared without restraint ...

My thanks to Glenn and you fine posters here.

I have only read through 38 pages of the comments, but have not seen any references to the book, CROSSING THE RUBICON by Michael C Ruppert. There is much there on Biological Warfare and anthrax beginning page 505, Chapter 29.

Page 506, para 5: "The administration quickly rushed to promote Cipro. . . . Revelations that the White House staff had begun taking Cipro nearly a month before the anthrax attacks had sparked a dramatically sharp rise in Bayer's stock price."

Page 509: Part II - A Trail of Dead Bodies and legislation

"By the end of Feb. 2002, a statistically striking number of world-class microbiologists were starting to drop unnaturally dead all over the globe." . . .

[Ruppert states as many as 14 and a different report states 19].

Page 511: 02/28/2002 (FTW) - "In the four month period from Nov. 12 [2001] through Feb 11 [2002], seven world-class microbiologists in different parts of the world were reported dead. Six died of "unnatural" causes, while the cause of the seventh's death is questionable.

In the six weeks prior to Nov. 12 [2001], two additional foreign microbiologists were reported dead. Some believe there were as many as 5 more microbiologists killed during this period, bringing the total as high as 14."

Here on pages 511-512 the author names many of these dead and describes their credentials and work. The common denominator for them ALL was that their research relied heavily on DNA sequencing studies.

Page 518: "After three months of conflicting reports it is now official that the anthrax that has killed several Americans since Oct. 5 [2001] is from US military sources connected to CIA research. The FBI has stated that ONLY 10 PEOPLE COULD HAVE HAD ACCESS, yet at the same time they are reporting astounding security breaches at the biowarfare facility at FORT DETRICK, MARYLAND - - breaches such as unauthorized nighttime experimenting and lab specimens gone missing.

The militarized anthrax used by the US was developed by William C Patrick III. . .He has worked at both Fort Detrick and the Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah. Patrick is now (book pub'd 2004) a private biowarfare consultant to the military and CIA. Patrick developed the process by whichi ANTHRAX spores could be concentrated at the level of one trillion spores per gram. No other country has been able to get concentrations above 500 billion per gram. The anthrax that was sent around the eastern US last fall [[2001] was concentrated at one trillion spores per gram, according to a Jan 31 [2002] report by Barbara Hatch Rosenberg of the Federation of American Scientists."

I highly recommend this book, but going in you should know that the fear you experience will need to be converted to the steel of determination to know and overcome.

The author, Michael C. Ruppert, has a website at:

www.FromTheWilderness.com He paid a high price for his intelligent pursuit of Truth. "They" got to him in 2006 and he became very ill, nearly dying. Friends got him to Canada to medical care and he survived, but no longer maintains the website, however it will remain available with all past reports. I am very grateful for Michael, and wish him well.

Jean C. Duley worked for his employer. If he was fired, why would he be seeing her? Was she a therapist, as has been reported, or a human resources counselor? Was she there to explain his rights and benefits or to assess his mental condition? Under the circumstances, I'd be inclined to believe nothing that's been reported until the details have been confirmed.

I might make a few threats if, after working for 30+ years, my employer tries to fuck me out my pension. Wouldn't you?

Noone has ever said it better than Bill Moyers:

“…news is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity.”

To which I would add: “or propaganda”.

In the same interview he stated: “Hear me: an unconscious people, an indoctrinated people, a people fed only partisan information and opinion that confirm their own bias, a people made morbidly obese in mind and spirit by the junk food of propaganda is less inclined to put up a fight, ask questions and be skeptical. And just as a democracy can die of too many lies, that kind of orthodoxy can kill us, too.”

Ain't it the truth?

If the now-deceased Ivins really was the culprit behind the attacks, then that means that the anthrax came from a U.S. Government lab...

I'm sorry, but it's not true that whether or not the anthrax came from a this particular facility is reliant on whether or not Ivins is guilty of the attacks. Where the anthrax originated from is not in question -- it was the study of the anthrax, and learning which strain it was, that led to the facility in the first place.

Dear Mr. Greenwald,

For the most part I agree with the points you make. However, by repeating the statement several times that we KNOW the anthrax came from a government SCIENTIST, in my view you contribute to public misunderstanding and misperception. I see no evidence that the anthrax came from a government scientist, only that it came from a government LABORATORY. Please present the evidence, if there is more. That Ivin cleaned a desk with bleach is no basis for suspicion; more likely this was routine procedure for him, as it would be for me working in a hazardous environment. The "well placed sources" who knowingly fed false information to ABC, however, probably also had connections to this government laboratory, and it is not likely they wore white coats during the day. Given the scant FBI progress on this case in the last seven years, perhaps they should focus on those wearing darker colors.