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• Wednesday, August 6, 2008 05:47 AM

  Bruce Ivins: The Movie

  Raimondo:

  It sounds like a very bad made-for-television movie: a mad scientist – a violent sociopath, a "nerd with a dark side," who had already tried to kill several people, is obsessed with pornography, and is fixated on a particular college sorority – unleashes a strain of deadly anthrax through the U.S. mail, killing five, infecting 17 others, and terrorizing the country. His motive, aside from sheer antisocial vindictiveness: he holds the patent for an anthrax vaccine, and he also wants to direct the nation's attention to the supposedly overlooked and underfunded problem of bio-terrorism. That'll teach 'em!

  It reads like some pretty execrable fiction, yet the FBI is peddling this farrago of shopworn clichés as the facts surrounding the alleged guilt of Bruce E. Ivins, whose suicide the other day ostensibly closes the 7-year-old anthrax terrorism case that has baffled investigators and shone a cruel light on the Bureau's methods and standards of conduct.

  The real topper has got to be the "sorority obsession" supposedly nursed by Ivins – a mild-mannered family man universally liked by his co-workers and neighbors. This is the sort of B-movie script beloved by Hollywood, wherein the upstanding bourgeois father of two and devoted husband is really a psychopathic slime-ball just beneath the surface, seething with resentment and even hatred of women who rejected his advances in the past – a male version of Carrie, who rises up in his true garb as the virtual incarnation of misanthropy to wreak vengeance on the female sex, and the world.

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  http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=13262

  And yet, my local paper is telling me that is the way it is. I don't watch Fox News so this is only a guess, but I suspect they have painted him as another Hitler. They love Hitler comparisons.

  I think we need an independent investigation; since the executive branch itself is suspect in this mess.

  We once had an independent council investigating things in Watergate, and that was only a cheap robbery. (or so it seemed at the time)

  —heru-ur Read heru-ur's other letters
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