Thanks for your article Mr. Greenwald. I hope you are free to continue your investigation with vigor. Perhaps three of the people you might want to talk with concerning the source of ABC's reporting on Bentonite might be Phillip Zack, Ken Alibek and William Patrick. They might shed some light on this misinformation and on the character of Dr. Ivins. Good Luck!

Say, Woods, do you listen to "Lunch with Folks" on our wonderful local Public Radio Station KBCS-91.3 FM? I'm gonna look and see if it's on their playlist. I'll bet it is, I bet.

"Lunch with Folks" is sort of a dumb name, but the program is great. It's out of Bellevue, Washington but it's streamed live and archived on the Web.

They cover vintage Jazz, too, to an extent I could not believe.

Remember that Colin Powell discussed Iraq's anthrax capability at the United Nations on Feb. 5, 2003. (Who can forget the vial of white powder he held aloft?)

Has anyone else noticed that Duley said she had worked with Ivins for six (6) months; and had been working with the FBI regarding Ivins for six (6) months. . . .hmmmmm.

Was Duley an undercover agent? or "asset"?? Did FBI pay her to frame Ivins? Was her court "testimony" scripted by FBI?

Also, a reporter for Bloomberg.com, Robert Schmidt, called the Comprehensive Counseling Associates where Duley had been a program director and worked with Ivins. His call was reported 08/02/2008 and "a woman who worked there told him that she (Duley) no longer worked there". [take the money and run??]

There's lots of very thought-provoking comments about all this at EmptyWheel. Many comments there are by a psychiatrist/psychologist and they are really good.

Don't believe I have but I am looking for it on the site right now. There it is! Lunch with folks, weekdays 12-3

I'll check it out.

I grew up on vintage jazz.

My dad would listen to Ellington, Sinatra and Basie quietly on the hi-fi late into the night and I often went to sleep to the sound of that or Dad one-fingering the piano in the living room and crooning along. He wasn't a musician, he was an army medical clerk, but he had a good ear and understood timing which is why he appreciated Sinatra.

He took me to see Count twice and the Duke once many years ago.

-Was Duley an undercover agent? or "asset"?? Did FBI pay her to frame Ivins? Was her court "testimony" scripted by FBI?-

The question has also arisen at Emptywheel.

BTW, plenty of mental health professionals over there.

Some interesting technical and procedural observations.

http://tiny.cc/0HIP4

When a person is broke, socially undesirable and sexually repulsive they get to be a sort of expert on Public Radio.

I'm so bad off the commercial broadcasters won't even broadcast to my house- they say there's no return in it, it's not worth the electricity.

But if you can find any time out of your whirlwind schedule to listen to KBCS- 91.3 I think you might find it rewarding. The Hawaaian program at Saturday is like a trip to the islands.

"Caravan" -fantastic coverage of ME and other Asian, and the coverage of South American and Mexican is also great, Gospel on Sat from 7-9, and much more.

It's one of the best, most musically varied radio stations I have ever heard. And I've spent a lot of evenings "home about Eight, just me and my radio", as Fats said.

The following may sound trivial, but that's because it is. The DNA of the strain that was used in the bombs should have been compared long, long ago against all known strains from l known lab-made sources. Simple analysis of the same type used routinely in courts would have established within no more than a couple of weeks precisely where those spores came from. The fact that this doesn't appear to have been done, or if it was done, was completely buried, is in itself rather telling. Suicide? Bah, humbug.

I think you might want to try to see the case as the people who are doing the examinations see it. This case may or may not be incredibly important to everyone worrying about the anthrax whodunit, but it might be very straightforward from where the Medical Examiner is. As I said, he was unconscious in his home (Sunday), then he was treated in the hospital for 2 days before he died (Tuesday), there are more medical facts about what was causing his condition from when he was still alive, while he was being treated for his failing liver (and probably the effects of the codeine initially). He may or may not have been unattended when he took the pills, but his death was certainly not unattended, it was in the hospital.

I guess what I was trying to say is that how to deal with his death may not be much different from when EMS was called to his house: They saw an unresponsive 62 y.o. male, not a major player in some vast puzzle involving duplicity and lawlessness in government and secret agents in the closet.

As for the therapist, and the psychiatrist, everything about the case suggests that he had a psychiatric hold written on him by a police officer on July 10, and he would have been under observation by a psychiatrist at that time, too, and that would have been after, not before, the group therapy sessions -- he called the therapist from the hospital, in fact. The therapist has already been asserted to have been connected to his employer. There was an earlier incident at work, and an earlier incident in which he was found unconscious, in March.

I have serious problems with the therapist writing the guy's psychiatric history or alleged psychiatric history into a public court document. That sounds unethical at the very least, given that it then becomes available to the press and anyone else who wants to look it up. Maybe you can shed light on that. People I've talked to in public mental health thought that looked incredibly unorthodox and very wrong.