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• Tuesday, August 5, 2008 01:24 PM

  Ivins and Greenwald

  Glenn: great job on this but I feel you will never get to the answer because you probably would not like it.

  A few years back a respected Catholic doctor in Norfolk County, MA, committed suicide because he was connected with a computer that had some porn on it. Rather than face the charges, he preferred death.

  I think you have to be a Catholic near Ivins age to understand how disgraceful it is for a person to admit to liking porn. Years of priestly preaching about how evil it is makes one never want to be publicly associated with it. I can understand the fear that was put into Ivins, who was a Catholic brought up with the fear, by the FBI as it threatened to expose his secret sexual fantasies to the public. Ivins personal torment must have been immense which caused him to fall into deep depression. The FBI did this to extract a confession from him. More than anything that proves his innocence since he would probably have preferred to confess than to be shamed.

  But now everything will be wrapped in a package called Ivins. Ross will come forward and state that Ivins was his source. Who can prove otherwise? The FBI will assert he was the source of the anthrax even though it knows this to be untrue.

  One thing that bothers me. The Bush Administration never jumped openly on the story the anthrax came from Iraq. It just let it float around in the public arena. This seems to indicate that Cheney and company knew the source of the anthrax was not from Iraq.

  The whole thing is very strange but we owe a lot to Glenn for staying on top of it.

  —llyonnoc Read llyonnoc's other letters
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