Having read various articles quoting the "estranged brother," it occurs to me that Bruce Ivins wasn't the sibling with the god complex. To wit:

"They [his brothers] grew up with that attitude — I didn't — that they were omnipotent," Tom Ivins says.

...

Tom says he is a much stronger man than Bruce was — proven by the way Tom says he handled questioning about the case by the FBI.

"They asked me a few questions, like 'What were you like growing up,' like family history questions, and I didn't buckle like the walls of Jericho coming tumbling down under their questioning, but it seems my two brothers did," he says. "Charles was not as strong as I am, nor was Bruce."

When asked if there's anything he liked about his brother, Tom replies, "No, I didn't."

He says he isn't sorry his brother is dead.

Wow. No issues there. Maybe Ms. Duley can fit him into her schedule. There should be an opening on her calendar now.

Your point about the role of Emergent BioSolutions connection and the fact that they have and stand to make a lot more money on Anthrax needs further investigation. If we had an M$M that cared enough about our country and their profession to take on the job, rather than how much money they can make, we wouldn’t have to do the job for them. So be it. The great people that comment and take action here can do a better job than they could. Collectively, we can really help Glenn and possess far more knowledge, ideas and leads that can continue to embarrass the M$M.

So far, we are doing a great job of questioning the possible role and abuse of power of our FBI and the government. Although, this anthrax scare clearly helped build the political case for attacking Iraq, the corporations stand to and have tremendously benefited financially since 9/11. It is entirely possible that these biotech firms have been major contributors to much of what has happened in the anthrax scenarios that we are striving to unsleuth.

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=13251

Justin Raimondo

... It seems to me a stretch to divorce motive not only from context, but also from important physical evidence in this case, i.e., the letters themselves. Other equally important evidence has been completely ignored. Over the years, I've presented much of this neglected-albeit-fascinating aspect of the anthrax mystery in a series of columns – here, here, here, here, here, and here – in which I related the story of what happened to another Ft. Detrick scientist, Dr. Ayaad Assaad.

Assaad, an American citizen born in Egypt, worked for USAMRIID in the early 1990s and was involved in a conflict with a group of Ft. Detrick employees who dubbed themselves the "Camel Club." As detailed in a series of eye-popping pieces by Dave Altimari and Jack Dolan of the Hartford Courant, this cabal was engaged in systematic harassment of Assaad and other Arab-American employees at the facility, including putting obscene and racist poems on his desk and presenting him with a rubber camel adorned with a sex toy. The Camel Club's harassment of Assaad had a distinctively ideological edge, one that pre-dated the "invade their countries, bomb their cities, and convert them to Christianity" meme that later became so popular with post-9/11 neocons of a Coulterish stripe ...

The "camel club" sounds like suspects to me. The past articles that Justin wrote over the years have hyper-links in the original for easy navigation to them.

All in all, this article is a wonderful recap by someone who has written about this episode many times. I recommend it. As always with Justin, the article is long and fact-filled.

As often happens, Justin Raimondo links to Glenn Greenwald for his analysis and work on the case. note, this was posted at the very end of last thread --- I missed that Glenn was on the job with a new posting at the time I posted it before.

I am not certain if anyone has previously posted this link....

Ivins colleague rejects therapist’s description

Arthur O. Anderson, a medical doctor and scientist at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease at Fort Detrick, said Duley's description of Ivins doesn't match his impressions of a man with whom he worked for many years.

Ivins, who was about to be indicted by the FBI in the anthrax mailings that killed five people and injured 17 others, was described by Anderson as a hard-working individual with a high level of integrity and pride in both his workplace and his individual work.

The only perceived weakness that Anderson could discern, and not all people would consider it a weakness, he said, was that Ivins "had relatively thin skin."

"His personality style was such that he was sensitive to public opinion," Anderson said Sunday. "There are individuals in our community whose lives are centered around protesting government programs. They're not necessarily interested in facts, but pushing an agenda."

http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/news/display.htm?storyID=78365

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.