It is clear that Ivins is being set up as a patsy for an operation that more than likely had roots in the criminal false flag government activities of the Bush administration. It is also difficult to believe why the American people have not risen up and thrown the bum out of office.

About the use of SpeedVac lyophilizer.

I am a biomedical Researcher. A SpeedVac is such a common staple equipment in any microbiology, immunology, molecular biology laboratory that I seriously doubt any research lab could function without one. Most labs have one or two, hardly evidence in itself.

Now: Ivins using a SpeedVac to concentrate highly lethal material such as weapons grade Anthrax without killing himself and every one else in the lab?. . .

That is another story.

I dreamt of lyophilizers last night. They were a lot like the larger Kitchen-Aid models, but way sexier. Then a Speed-Vac got into it.

I woke up very thirsty and cold.

Puts a new slant on the case, huh?

yet another example of the importance of doing your homework before you run your mouth.

Homework is cool, kids.

Glenn (and unfortunately not enough others, yet) prove it every single damn day.

Hey, we can clone Glenn!

Should be required reading.

this administration and the FBI and the CIA have zero credibility. It seems to me that in most cases the truth turns out to be the exact opposite of whatever story these guys are telling. There needs to an outside independent investigator. This whole railroading of Ivins smells very fishy.

GLENN:

How does the FBI get access to Ivins emails to include them in an affidavit. Does that mean they had access to the emails of everyone in the lab and then decided they had a guy with some type of mental problems so they figured he did it? So much for the rights of privacy, we don't even know if they are reading our emails.

The principal search warrant affidavit deepens the questions about Matsumoto - while I want to be careful about pre-judging Matsumoto, we've got to look at the very intriguing evidence. Before the affidavit, we had this:

1. Ivins was described by Dr. Nass in her 1999 report to Congress as "the leading anthrax vaccine researcher" at Fort Detrick.

2. Matsumoto blamed Ivins for causing Gulf War Syndrome with his work on the anthrax vaccine in the period prior to 2001.

3. After the anthrax attacks, Matsumoto joined ABC News' Brian Ross and others in the bentonite story blaming Iraq on October 26.

4. Matsumoto backed off this story only slightly in another story on November 1, but continues to emphasize the Iraq connection.

5. During the run-up to war in October 2002, Matsumoto continued to point squarely at Iraq in his Washington Post article, while shifting from bentonite to silica as the additive in his Washington Post article.

6. In late 2003, Matsumoto wrote a big article for Science Magazine - still looking at Iraq - and claiming that the spores were coated with silica, which proved military engineering from an "industrial source".

7. Ed Lake seriously criticized Matsumoto for ignoring the findings of Professor Matthew Meselson and former "bioweaponeer" Ken Alibek, who looked at the Daschle anthrax and said that there was NO coating of the spores.

8. Matsumoto didn't consider what Meselson and Alibek had seen, relying solely on a graph from a spectrograph.

9. FBI forensic scientist Beecher's article in 2006 named Matsumoto as the man who had it wrong that there was any coating with silica. This would indicate that almost any microbiologist could have done it, rather than military engineering by either Iraq or Dugway or Battelle. This marked a big shift in the FBI's handling of the case, and I believe new chief investigators came into play at about the same time. (I do realize that Beecher was later criticized in the same journal for not adequately sourcing his statement). I'm still waiting to see real evidence of "coating".

Now, the search warrant affidavit shows that Matsumoto was working with NBC in August, 2001, and that Ivins was furious at Matsumotio in August 28, 2001 for attempting to ferret out details about his vaccine work. Keep in mind that both ABC and NBC were two of the five media outlets known to have received anthrax in the first wave of mailings dated Sept. 18, 2001:

“Beginning shortly after the first Gulf War and through 2001, USAMRIID and Dr. Ivins was the focus of public criticism concerning their introduction of a squalene adjuvant (or additive) to the AVA anthrax vaccine, which was blamed for the Gulf War Syndrome. In 2000 and 2001, as evident by the e-mails above, that same anthrax vaccine was having problems in the production phase at Bioport, a private company in Michigan responsible for manufacturing the vaccine. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had suspended further production of Bioport, and the U.S. government, specifically the Department of Defense, was running out of approved lots of the vaccine. The situation placed pressure on select staff members at USAMRIID, including Dr. Ivins, who were part of the Anthrax Potency Integrated Product Team (IPT). The purpose of the IPT was to assist in the resolution of technical issues that was plaguing Bioport’s production of approved lots of the vaccines.

“In the weeks immediately prior to the attacks, Dr. Ivins became aware that an investigative journalist who worked for NBC News had submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests on USAMRIID seeking detailed information from Dr. Ivins’s laboratory notebooks as they related to the AVA vaccine and the use of adjuvants. On August 28, 2001, Dr. Ivins appeared angry about the request providing the following response in an e-mail: “Tell Matsumoto to kiss my ass. We’ve got better things to do than hsine his shoes and pee on command. He’s gotten everything from me he will get.”

In early 2002, shortly after the anthrax letter attacks, the FDA re-approved the AVA vaccine for human use, production at Bioport resumed, and anthrax research at USAMRIID continued without interruption. As mentioned previously, one of the anthrax letters postmarked on September 18, 2001 was addressed to Tom Brokaw, NBC News in New York. Dr. Ivins thereafter received “the highest honor given to Defense Department civilians at a Pentagon ceremony on March 14, 2003" for his work in “getting the anthrax vaccine back into production”.

Someone should get Matsumoto's side of these stories - that date both before and after the crucial events of late 2001. You can see my analysis and sources (and my call to support Glenn) at my article in Truthout http://www.truthout.org/article/the-anthrax-attacks-sunlight-is-best-disinfectant