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@L.W.M.
You're way behind the times. We've read Ivins' letters in the Frederick News Post AND the articles that Ivins was responding to.
e.g., click on my signature.
-- macgupta
No. You've read them and from your point of view "anybody who read them might think amity wrote them". Other people see with their own point of view. You may have more of an attachment to a certain preconceived outcome. Most of us do. Somehow I doubt Ivins was a big fan on satire but that is just a hunch.
Dry or paste, don't all "teh experts" agree the water used in the process came from the northeastern U.S. Whether that was employed in some reconstitution process only, I don't know and cannot say.
"Radiocarbon dating conducted by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in June 2002 established that the anthrax was cultured no more than two years before the mailings. In October 2006 it was reported that water used to process the anthrax spores came from a source in the northeastern United States."
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/government/84/8449gov1.html