Again I'm far from an expert, but in a case of this magnitude, and in the interest of being thorough, I would have expected to hear that one was performed.

Perhaps the same principle is at work here.

-- Derbig Mooser

No, I'm not as smart as Tom Sawyer. More like Huck Finn. But I can tell who among us is smart enough and objective enough to handle this fence. I'm just that smart. And I'll let Jim "I just want to know the truth" do it. I'd just be in the way and my eyes are no longer putting up with long hours of reading small print here or on paper. I need to see the optometrist.

;-)

OK. They say the silica or silicon was "within" the spores, and this had not been seen before.

So, did they test all sorts of other strains, or the Ames itself, to see if they also had silica within them, which science heretofore did not have the technology to test? That would seem to be absolutely necessary for the "science" of this case, and to allege the stuff in the attacks was not weaponized.

Archives of the Frederick News Post before 1997 are available online, but one would have to pay for them.

http://fredericknewspost.newspaperarchive.com/Default.aspx

click on signature

I tried an advanced search looking for

- the exact phrase Kappa Kappa Gamma

- with all of the words hazing

- between years 1981 and 1984

- all titles (not just the Frederick News Post

and the result was

We discovered 0 results for hazing AND "Kappa Kappa Gamma" AND between 1981 AND 1984

in newspaper articles found in our archive!

Maybe you'll have better luck!

Again I'm far from an expert, but in a case of this magnitude, and in the interest of being thorough, I would have expected to hear that one was performed.

-- General Zod

That really does seem odd but autopsies are not that common. Was he interred or cremated. If he was cremated that would be suspicious. A body can always be exhumed but in a case like this you'd think a necropsy would be indicated just to cross all the "i's" and dot all the "t's".

It's just that if there was a list of FBI talking points, and one compared it to your posts, they'd be almost identical.

I really think these kinds of accusations are very counterproductive. If for no other reason than, in my experience, those that accuse others of being spies tend to be spies themselves. It is an old FBI technique.

I am not accusing you of anything. Just pointing out that this type of crap leads nowhere but insanity.

TLNC --- spy

His statements are available here:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93333658

or click on signature.

I don't know how reliable this archive is but:

http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/8/19/201601.shtml

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AP summarized the reasons why the bureau would not let go:

# The anthrax letters contained a return address of a nonexistent Greendale School in New Jersey. Hatfill once lived in Harare, Zimbabwe, where there is a school named for Courtney Selous, the namesake of the Selous Scouts, who fought the communist terrorists who were murdering white farmers, their wives, children and their black farmworkers.

Because there is no "Greendale School," the FBI and its media stooges now claim that the school is "informally" known as the Greendale school. It doesn’t say by whom.

Investigative journalist Nicholas Stix took the trouble the rest of the media couldn’t bother themselves with. He contacted people in Zimbabwe and asked if anyone knew about the so-called Greendale school. Here are two answers he got:

"There was [and still is] only one school in the neighbourhood. In my day, it was called Courtney Selous primary school. ... I checked on a NGO website which listed all the name changes which the government is proposing presently and discovered that the school is, indeed, still called Courtney Selous [after a famous 'White Hunter,' Frederick Courtney Selous, who featured prominently in early Rhodesian pioneer history]. Although the school is located in Greendale, it has never been known as 'Greendale School.' No other schools have ever been built in the area."

"There isn't and never has been a Greendale School. There is a suburb in Harare called Greendale. The schools in that area were Courteney Selous School, which is a school for junior kids. The only other schools in that area were for high school, i.e Oriel Boys, Oriel Girls and Chisipite. There is a school that is called Greengrove but is not in the school zone in the area mentioned although it is fairly close."

TLNC, or whatever the acronym. The point about the silica is germane and especially critical to he "science" the FBI is trying to pass off--or going to alter to pass off, now that CargoCult drew the parallel for everyone to see between the two flawed cases.

I've probably missed the previous post(s) that answered this but why no comparisons between Ivins numerous letters taken from his home and the four known anthrax letters?

Seems like one of the standard opening acts of an FBI dog-and-pony show.

or show cause and get a court order ....

My guess is that if asked, the Ivins family told them to fuck the fuck off (or something similar) ... as I would have done ... and absent the authority or the evidence to push for custody of the "the body" ... they demurred.

God only knows how many scans and other tests the man had in his last days ...

JACHO and the AMA are pushing hard for more autopsies to confirm assumed diagnoses. In some families, they are "tradition" and automatic, as with my relative. Many folks really get squeamish and hate.hate.hate the idea.

In yet another job, I've been the one to ask for permission. In my experience, most families will agree if a reason is explained. Absent a "good" reason to disembowel their recently dead relative, it is often seen as almost unimaginable, abhorrent, verging on desecration, and, no, it's not okay.

I'm uncertain if Roman Catholics have a bias. Jews and Moslems have a serious time constraint on death to internment that can make autopsies problematic.