If CargoCult was not referring to Jim, I apologize. There has been some post editing and I am easily confused.

One interesting claim made in this document is that FBI Special Agent Darin Steele couldn't have told Ivins "many months - year" prior to 3/31/05 that RMR-1029 matched the anthrax strain, because this was only known by the FBI when the 6/17/04 submission to the FBIR was analyzed.

But one fact no one has yet commented on is that RMR-1029 was seized, along with other original samples, from B3 on 4/7/04 and then sent, not directly to FBIR, but to the Navy Medical Research Center. The NMRC didn't forward the RMR-1029 to FMIR until 6/17/04, when it was then sent to contracting labs for genetic testing.

Obviously, if NMRC tested RMR-1029 independently in April 2004, an FBI agent could have told Ivins the results around the same time, i.e., "many months" before Ivins' 3/31/05 statement.

And if NMRC wasn't testing RMR-1029 and the other B3 samples during those two months, what were they doing?

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/#26062323

Okay, now this is weird, and artfully redacted: 08-084-M-01 Search Warrant Affidavit, p. 21. (background is on page 20: Ivins was sending gifts to his wife from different locations, to disguise his role as sender. My guesses: could be a romantic gesture; could be an attempt to patch up a strained relationship. Whatever the reason is, it happened AFTER the anthrax mailings)

However, as described in the following e-mails, Dr. Ivins admitted responsibility for the gift after approximately six moths [sic] of denials:

E-mail March 28, 2003, from [redacted] "He did tell me that he fessed up that he had indeed put the [redacted] etc on your [redacted]. I find that really, really strange. Oh well."

E-mail April 7, 2003 from [redacted] "Bruce told me an interesting thing while we were going over there. . ...that he had, indeed, put the [redacted]. Why did he wait so long to fess up and, why did he not tell the truth when both you and I asked him out right about it? Very odd. Sometimes (most of the time) I really don't get his motives behind anything he does. And, I think there are motives most of the time. It's a little scary actually to think he drove all the way up there in the middle of the night just to drop off a package."

On March 31, 2005, during an interview, Dr. Ivins admitted that the [redacted] was a 10 to 11 hour drive, and that "this was a surprise [redacted]"

Who are the good guys?

-- USAMRIID and the military complex?

-- Battelle and the industrial complex?

-- The FBI?

What a hideous clutch of incompetent monkeys pointing their fingers at one another. No wonder a drunk, paranoid, porn-obsessed germ lover with a sorority fetish could hide in plain sight for so long.

Yes, cargocult and jim white are after the most crucial single thing - was the mailed anthrax technologically simple or complex, was it possible for a lone person to produce it, and where was it possible to produce it?

One would assume that the FBI determination of the mailed anthrax has been all along that it is possible for a single person to produce it (Hatfill, Ivins) and only in Fort Detrick - because none of the other evidence seen so far proves that this is the work of a single person or that it was possible to produce this only at Fort Detrick.

and anyone could have petitioned the coroner to take custody ...

I'm doubtful the FBI was interested in an autopsy. There was no question about cause of death.

How could they rationalize "pulling rank" to push for an autopsy against the wishes of the family?

Did they want an exact weight of his brain, his liver, his prostate? Or did they want to know the condition of his kidney parenchyma? Did they want to know the degree of "fatty liver" or whether his diverticulosis was really diverticulitis?

Do you think they had some suspicion that there was "gold" (relevant information to be obtained) in that there dead body and they let that "slide"?

I don't.

I am assuming the FBI would have mentioned it had it found Greendale school mentioned in one of the numerous Ivins' emails and letters found. Strange for a prolific writer of letters.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A28334-2002Oct27?language=printer

In his speech to families of victims of the 1980-88 war against Iraq, Khamenei ruled out Iran's participation in any attack on Afghanistan or in a wider U.S.-led battle against terrorism.

"Iran will not provide any help in an attack by the U.S. and its allies. You who have always hurt Iran's interests, how can you ask for our help in attacking an oppressed country?" the ayatollah asked. The gathering of several thousand shouted their approval with cries of "Death to America" and "Death to Israel."

Isn't it amazing how liberals fail to recognize the fundamental incoherence of their arguments! Just a while ago they were arguing that Iran was begging to cut a deal with the US after 9/11, offering a grand bargain: an alliance against al-Qaeda and a softening of their position against Israel, but this promising development was torpedoed by the evil neocon-Bush-Cheney conspiracy. Now they blithely argue the contrary!

"I read somewhere that Ivins thought he had aplastic anemia..." -- susan sunflower

That disease can be caused by radiation exposure. And in Ivins' case we know he had years of close proximity to all those Gammas.

The Greendale case is described here in a collection of articles about corporal punishment at schools:

http://www.corpun.com/uss00105.htm

or click on signature.

No offense, but transcribing autopsy reports doesn't really mean you know anything about PERFORMING or INTERPRETING an autopsy. There is quite a bit of information to learn from an autopsy, and surprises happen.

It also removes doubt of the cause of death.

I went to school in Florida and any suicide in the county I lived in was an automatic autopsy. I had to assist with a few autopsies during my training, and the freezer was always full of suicides waiting to get their post-mortem exam.