Ivins was fired, humiliated, followed, harassed, and abandoned. When he finds out his therapist is working for those who have tortured him and his family (it would piss off the Good Humor man), she has him committed but someone allows his premature release.

And now after he's been crucified someone asks if his accuser was credible, and you cry foul!?

The distance from Frederick Municipal Airport (right outside Frederick MD) to Trenton Mercer Airport (right outside Princeton NJ) is 128.7 nautical miles.

Duley's psychological evaluation of Ivins is the least interesting aspect of her testimony. Ivins' alleged statements at group counseling, presumably in front of other patients, is the obviously the most important issue. It isn't complicated. He either said those things at group or he didn't. Duley does not need a professional degree to testify to those facts. Duley's credibility is certainly an issue if you are challenging the truth of the matter. Is that what you are doing? Do you suspect that Ivins did not make those statements during group counseling?

You're just wrong about how her claims are being used. She's not only being held up as a witness for statements he made in group therapy (and thus far, she's the only witness to those alleged statements). She's being held up as a psychological expert who is in a position to assess his psyche and the likelihood that he is the killer.

Have you not been reading and hearing that? Here are the lead paragraphs from an article in the LA Times today:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-daschle4-2008aug04,0,5569575.story

WASHINGTON -- Bruce E. Ivins, the chief suspect in the 2001 anthrax attacks, was a "sociopathic, homicidal killer" who planned to kill his co-workers "because he was about to be indicted on capital murder charges," a Maryland court was warned shortly before Ivins committed suicide last week.

Jean Carol Duley, a psychotherapist who had treated Ivins for six months, told the court July 24 that the microbiologist had purchased a bulletproof vest and gun and boasted of roaming the streets hoping to stab someone.

Ivins claimed during therapy sessions that he had "attempted to murder several people" using poison, as long ago as 2000, Duley said in an audio recording of the hearing.

Duley could not be reached Sunday.

She described Ivins as a "revenge killer" who seemed especially sensitive to perceived slights from women.

It's honestly mystifying to me how anyone could think that her judgment, credibility and professional credentials shouldn't be examined, given how the media is using her alleged professional expertise to paint Bruce Ivins as a homicidal psychotic.

Chief accuser? Really? Is it your hypothesis that the grand jury is a figment of Duley's imagination?

There are two ways Ivins is being accused and convicted in the media -- (1) claims that the FBI has mountains of evidence against him and (2) depictions that underneath his mild-mannered scientist facade lurked a crazed, disturbed killer.

Jean Duley is absolutely the leading witness -- the only witness -- for proposition (2).

A friend of mine found an interesting blog by Larisa Alexandrovna that can shed more light on Duley.

I linked to that in this post. It was well-done.

Finally, some rebuttals to the B.S. in the press:

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26007186/?GT1=43001

"Anthrax suspect’s colleague blames FBI for suicide: He calls motives ascribed to Bruce Ivins in mailings that killed 5 ‘ridiculous’."

It is really kind of interesting to look at David Willman's reporting on this issue, especially when you go back and look at his previous article on the struggle for the anthrax vaccine contract, and even more particularly in light of the fact that he was the one who broke the Ivins story in the LA Times.

This quote, in particular, is a real stinker: "With new analyses showing that the admixture of anthrax could not have come from anywhere in the world but Ft. Detrick..."

That is the worst kind of pseudo-scientific bull, and the reporter doesn't even bother to call up Paul Keim, the Northern Arizona microbiologist who led the initial genetic analysis of the spores - he's an independent and reputable expert if there ever was one. For example, see http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/296/5575/2028

To reiterate: all you have are the words of an anonymous source - perhaps the same source that put all the effort into smearing Hatfill for four years?

Then, there is Willman's reporting on the anthrax vaccine:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-anthrax2dec02,1,7041424.story

Nowhere in the article is Battelle mentioned - it is all about Vaxgen and Emergent Biosolutions (Vaxgen was trying to make a recombinant vaccine, Emergent relied on growning anthrax the old way). The fact is, Battelle is the sole subcontractor for each company with respect to anthrax, as listed in Vaxgen and Emergent's SEC filings.

That brings us to Dugway Utah, where Battelle manages the U.S. biowarfare program (purely defensive, folks, honest!). In case you think I'm jut making this all up, check out the Dec 21 2001 story from Knight-Ridder:

Knight Ridder Washington Bureau

December 21, 2001, Friday

Anthrax investigation leads to U.S. Army research center in Utah

By David Kidwell, Lenny Savino and Seth Borenstein

WASHINGTON _ The investigation into the anthrax attacks on America keeps leading federal agents to a U.S. Army research center in the Utah desert, officials familiar with the investigation told Knight Ridder on Thursday.

The connections to the Dugway Proving Ground Army research center are still uncertain, said law enforcement officials and scientists. Dugway may be the source of the anthrax, with investigators trying to match the precise genetic fingerprints from the anthrax first found in the offices of a Florida tabloid to those used at Dugway. Or, officials said, Dugway could be the source for the know-how necessary to make the bacteria so deadly - 10 to 100 times more concentrated than the anthrax usually used in research.

Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge, in a Thursday interview with Knight Ridder, would not comment on specifics about what he called "a very intensive investigation." However, he did say federal agents had winnowed the scope of their investigation...

...Scientists and law enforcement officials close to the investigation told Knight Ridder that the refined powder used in the anthrax attacks bears striking similarities to U.S. military grade anthrax manufactured at Dugway.

Investigators are looking at two pieces of evidence: the precise genetic fingerprints of the anthrax mailed to locations in Florida, Washington and New York, and its highly concentrated physical qualities.

The anthrax in the letters was the Ames strain, used by the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) in Fort Detrick, Md. Caree Vander-Linden, an Army spokeswoman, said Fort Detrick has provided the strain to five places: Porton Down, a secret military research center in England; Dugway Proving Ground; Defence Research Establishment in Suffield, Canada; Battelle Memorial Institute, a research facility in Columbus, Ohio, and the University of New Mexico.

The Fort Detrick institute, said Vander-Linden in a written statement, "does not use dry powder preparations of anthrax. It uses liquid preparations of anthrax. Neither the skills nor the laboratory equipment required to make finely milled dry powdered anthrax are available at USAMRIID."

That kind of sophisticated delivery of anthrax, according to officials, has investigators looking intensely at Utah. The final tests of the strain isolated in Florida would be the link that investigators are seeking.

"The word in the scientific community is that they are very close to something," said Dr. Ronald Atlas, University of Louisville microbiologist and incoming president of the American Society of Microbiology. "The anthrax at Dugway is the only known sample they intend to check right now."

Then, the FBI lead team was fired, Richard Lambert took over, and all attention turned to Hatfill - and the media published barely a word about the anthrax attacks for the next three years, until they began parroting FBI claims about "the low-tech anthrax spores with no coatings." During the same period, Battelle pulled down close to a billion in biowarfare contracts linked to anthrax - and they were also awarded a management contract at Fort Detrick, MD, itself:

http://www.genengnews.com/news/bnitem.aspx?name=10567798&taxid=47

They must be desperate to close the case before the next administration comes in, and that's why you have all these "anonymous leaks" - it is a deliberate program of deception: a coverup of a major crime, being carried out by the FBI and Justice hand in hand, with the aid of a good chunk of the press.