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Tuesday, August 5, 2008 12:00 AM

The FBI's emerging, leaking case against Ivins

The more revelations there are in the Bruce Ivins case, the more questions there are.

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  • Tuesday, August 5, 2008 05:21 PM

    I suspect they settled on "venality" because the other most-popular "deadly sin" motives didn't pan out ...

    ... and I suspect that "profit" motive applies to virtually all of the lab members IF they were fingered... who couldn't use a few extra hundred thousand to pay off the mortgage, help with kids' college tuition, plan for retirement, right?

    More "lowest common denominator" one-size-fits-all bullshit ... maybe he was pissed about his co-pay rates or that dental work that his insurance refused to cover ...

    Again, they are attempting to make the "profile" fit the suspect ... this is "assumption of guilt" and why it must be avoided like the plague (no pun intended) -- imho, it's part of the danger of FISA data trawling ... the "facts" are then selectively fitted around the dominant paradigm or theory ... how did Tony Blair and company put it??? Same blinking, ER, blinkered problem ....

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