from the npr transcript:

He (the lawyer) also added that Ivins cooperated with the investigation every step of the way.

False Samples Cited

That is a far cry from the picture Justice Department officials painted Wednesday. They say Ivins not only dodged their inquiries but tried to outright "mislead" investigators. They say Ivins submitted false anthrax samples from his lab to throw off investigators.

In one instance, the documents say, investigators asked Ivins for a specific sample of anthrax they needed. Ivins gave a sample, but when they went to the lab themselves and took the sample, it did not match what Ivins had given them. When they confronted Ivins, the documents say, he denied it was true.

Kemp says when investigators asked Ivins for an anthrax sample, he though they were asking for a pure culture sample. It wasn't until six weeks later that they called and said they had wanted something else.

Kemp says Ivins never denied to the FBI that the anthrax could have come from his batch.

Ivins was restricted from the lab on Nov. 1, 2007, some six years after the attacks, according to an Army spokesperson.

Yeah, that fits what I suspected had happened ...

now, about that "framing someone else" rumor....

oh, and those peculiar ideas about women ...

(Apparently the case has been declared closed .... we are no "safer" than we were before... we are also probably in no more danger... )

macgupta --thanks for the link to statements being made by Ivins' attorney, Paul Kemp.

it gets kind of dizzying reading so much nonsensical crap from the US gov'ment as though it were being released due to some monstrous emetic taken by the FBI.

nice to hear a sane voice hiccuping through the shitstorm

i find it hard to imagine how difficult it must be for Paul Kemp to push back against this monumental avalanche of utter crap and evident bad faith on the part of the FBI

for example: how do they know that Ivins was the ONLY one that had access to the almighty flask? what effin planet are they from?

"in order for it to be inhalation anthrax, it would have to disburse rather easily"

I hate to be picky, but you meant "disperse", not "disburse".

"Yeah, that fits what I suspected had happened ..."

If the "Ivins gave the wrong anthrax" story was solid,

It would have been leaked earlier and highlighted becaue it sounds so damning.

The story is easily debunked by Ivins' attorney, until the FBI shows he's wrong, which I predict they will not do.

They held Ivins Memorial service at Ft. Detrick. Quite a large turnout.

From a USA Today article about it:

"I don’t understand how 250 scientists and soldiers, including the base commander and the commanding general, could be here eulogizing Bruce and the FBI seriously consider him a suspect," Paul Kemp, the suspect's lawyer, says in an e-mail following the service. "In the words of his commander, he was open, sharing, funny and scientifically brilliant."

Laws regarding autopsies vary from state to state and county to county. But you don't need a court order and you don't need the family permission every time. A coroner can do an autopsy if they think it is a suspicious death without the approval of the family. Common sense would dictate an autopsy in anyone being investigated in a criminal case.

Distribution of calcium and other elements in cryosectioned Bacillus cereus T spores, determined by high-resolution scanning electron probe x-ray microanalysis.

J Bacteriol. 1980 Jul;143(1):481-91.

Stewart M, Somlyo AP, Somlyo AV, Shuman H, Lindsay JA, Murrell WG.

The distribution of a number of key elements in Bacillus cereus T spores was determined by high-resolution scanning electron probe X-ray microanalysis. To circumvent the redistribution of soluble or weakly bound elements, freeze-dried cryosections of spores, which had been rapidly frozen in 50% aqueous polyvinyl pyrrolidone, were employed. The sections were examined by using a modified Philips EM400 electron microscope fitted with a field emission gun, scanning transmission electron microscopy attachment, and a computer-linked energy-dispersive X-ray microanalysis system. X-ray maps for selected elements and the corresponding electron image were produced simultaneously by scanning the cryosections with a fine electron beam in a raster pattern, using the scanning transmission electron microscopy attachment. The results indicated that almost all of the calcium, magnesium, and manganese, together with most of the phosphorus, was located in the core region. An unexpectedly high concentration of silicon was found in the cortex/coat layer. Granules containing high concentrations of calcium, manganese, and phosphorus were demonstrated in spores containing reduced levels of dipicolinic acid. Spot mode analyses, in which a stationary beam was located over the region of interest in the spore cryosection, confirmed the results obtained with the scanning mode and also provided a more accurate quantitation of the elemental concentrations on a dry weight bases.

Emphasis added for the reading impaired.

Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6772633

Again: what we need is an analysis of the attack material, with controlled comparisons to clean B. anthracis spores and said spores treated with various silica or polyglass agents as attributed to Dugway or West Jefferson that will allow us to know the silicon content and location in the samples under analysis. Methods for doing this have clearly been around since 1980.

Has anyone been able to find a record of this? I went to the KKG discussion page and could find nothing. I've read plenty of "edit wars" on political topics too, so I think I know exactly where to look.

Does this mean I don't know what to look for or that it has all been removed? Was this in reference to another article concerning KKG?

Why would Wikipedia remove such information, even at the request of teh FBI?

I'll keep looking - not that this whole part of the investigation really makes me think they were on to much. Who knows?

Can't answer your first question, but:

(2) Who might write the month in the format "09"? Perhaps someone with a military background? Any opinions on this out there?

Anybody who routinely uses dates to name computer files. If you use only a single digit for months 1-9, the system's default sort of the files in the folder will screw up the date order of the filenames (10-01-07 will come before 9-30-07, etc.). Putting 0 before single-digit months will give you the correct date order.

I often find myself writing the date starting with 0 simply because I'm so used to doing it when I use dates to name computer files.