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Wednesday, August 6, 2008 12:00 AM

The FBI's selective release of documents in the anthrax case

Some preliminary observations about the FBI's evidence.

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Thursday, August 7, 2008 04:55 AM

Take your time

Please take your time, and read all of those documents before you write a report on them. Better to complete and accurate than quick and superficial.

Thursday, August 7, 2008 05:14 AM

@Derbig Re: My Eyes & and some other commenter Re: KKG Edit Wars

Re: My Eyes.

Derbig,

Are you practicing medicine without a license again?

Stop that or I will join your gang/club.

;-)

Re: KKG Edit Wars

Allegedly Ivin's User Page

Jimmyflathead

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jimmyflathead

See:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0806081anthrax6.html

Thursday, August 7, 2008 05:16 AM

Ron Suskind out sick today, cancelled appearance on Bill Press's show.

I very much hope this is just a minor sickness, not the government going after him.

By the way, on U.S. Attorney Taylor, if he was majority counsel on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and then worked for Sen. Hatch (ranking member of Senate Judiciary at the time, if memory serves,) is there any way he could not have been aware of the Republicans' eavesdropping on the Dem senators' e-mails and strategizing through Miranda?

Thursday, August 7, 2008 05:20 AM

Stinks

To high heaven. Another good ol' American patsy with mental problems, acts alone, and conveniently commits suicide.

Had enough yet?

Thursday, August 7, 2008 05:30 AM

this is hot -

and i was all wrong - again! - because i just had forgotton how much fun these 'whodunits' are. They give everybody such a great sense of community and I think

my dad is a sourpuss because he never wants to go hunting with Mr. Freudenberger

I told himits just another type of group therapy where you can bond and even sceptics join in very quickly – And dudes was i wrong about the cargo dude!

He is like one of these cartoon coyotes - Each time he goes over the cliff he comes back better - and seriously a daily 'whodunitspecial' with him would give Joans threats a run for her money – and perhaps he could solve ‘911 mystery too - probably all by himself -

So keep up the good work bitches -

and LWM don’t worry about the fence i sent you a painter if you sent me a contact.

Thursday, August 7, 2008 05:36 AM

who is(are) the FBI protecting?

How could a government agency be so politically bias? and so inept such as the FBI, the premiere law enforcement agency who cost tax payers billion of dollars per year, unless it is by design? Who is the FBI protecting? the FBI clearly are being used by someone as the "fall guy"here. The question is WHO?

Thursday, August 7, 2008 05:41 AM

FOIA -

i tell you its Friedensreich Freudenberger - and if you want his adress mail me!

Thursday, August 7, 2008 05:46 AM

Ross and Anthrax

Wouldn't one expect that the FBI's swabs would reveal traces of anthrax somewhere on the clothes, in the home or other physical surroundings of the anthrax attacker?

I don't think so. It would be an incredibly sloppy (and deadly) mistake to make. The absence of anthrax spores on clothing and work/living spaces is to be expected, one would think. This was very deadly stuff, or at least some of it was.

Ross's response leads me to think that he is not going to give up the sources unless legally forced to do so. I believe that Ross's sources are of central importance, and that in this case (in which a biological attack was made on key government figures) he should be forced to give them up. This is one reason why I favor this thing under a prosecutor/grand jury, rather than a congressional hearing.

Thursday, August 7, 2008 05:53 AM

@franticflinthead

"Yes, Greenwald called that one wrong, claiming they're leaked the best evidence against Ivins. Very strong evidence was released about Ivins today and it appears they zeroes in on the right man. I appreciate the hard work of the investigators and this was a difficult case to crack (Greenwald will never give them props about this). They had to develop new technologies to crack this case."

-- franticflintstone

Man did we ever miss this one...now the FBI has....EMAILS. WOW.

And they are still trying him in the court of public opinion.

And frantic, I still have that email about how you finally stopped beating your wife. Should I delete it?

Thursday, August 7, 2008 06:05 AM

Ivins aka Jimmyflathead Wiki user page and KKG edit wars

Ivins, (allegedly), created this user login nym for Wiki at some point in 2006, probably right before the welcome message in July, which you can find at this link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jimmyflathead

However, he had been editing the KKG page (acrimonious and contentious edit wars involving bullying and "threats") from IP Address 140.247.179.117 prior to that. The link after the text below goes to a KKG edit/revert fracas in February of 2006 and there are other incidences of this. At least 6 months, I'm guessing.

I should note here that some commenters here, two in particular - who shall remain nameless out of respect for Glenn - but probably others as well, will try to tell you that Wiki is a CIA front or some such ridiculous nonsense, based soley on the fact that Wikipedians do not consider certain websites and sources, and there are many of them like WhatReallyHappened or Rense, to name just two - even some other sites that some people here may read - as credible, or Wiki consides them to be original research, or conspiracism, or that Wikipedians just refuse to alllow wikipedia to become an outlet for conspiracism, propaganda - left or right, and junk revisionist history. But just because Wiki won't scream that 9/11 was an inside job, Aliens don't walk among us, and Lincoln and FDR were bloodthirsty warmongering tyrants does not make wiki a CIA front. There is no government conspiracy to keep nutbars out of Wiki. It is just a sane and rational person conspiracy to keep nutbars out of wiki. It doesn't always work. And I'll be the first to agree that sockpuppets and moles and trolls and vandals out until they are caught and banned. Fortunately, there are still a few of sane and rational people out there. OK, now on to the text:

Jimmyflathead - In response to your post to my talk page - you are right that I singled you out on the kappa kappa gamma talk pages, that was probably unfair. There are others who have vandalized the page too - both deletion vandalism and trolls. However, I stand by my comment that most of the negative content on the page is merely there because you bullied folks with threats of adding negative content and through personal emails. I don't much care for the tone.

Furthermore, I can't understand the obsession. Why do you feel the need to add all this? Why Kappa? All the fraternity and sorority pages have ongoing vandalism, I just can't understand why you are so intent to contribute vandalism and negativity to ours. Just trying to correct what I perceive to be unfair bashing for no good reason. ppfleiger 05:31, 21 November 2006 (UTC) >> Thank you for the note. I had actually noticed the deletion vandalism myself, so I reverted it. regarding your comment on Nancy Haigwood:

"...would hope that you would be kind enough to Google "Nancy Haigwood AIDS" and see why I suggested adding her. She may not have a Wikipedia entry, but I believed that her accomplishments warranted inclusion..."

I have to say in general, I like the notable Kappa inclusion guidelines, if only that without something the list becomes long and pointless. I think the first two rules are very reasonable: Noteworty enough to have a wiki page (or famous enough to deserve a wiki page) and being an initiated member. The third point about having never given up membership is a little trickier. Perhaps instead of not including those who resigned their membership, maybe that should be noted just like honorary memberships are noted? I'm not sure what to say there - I think you have to draw a line somewhere about what it means to be notable and what it means to be a member. I agree with Nancy Haigwood's accomplishments being worthy of a mention. She's certainly quoted often as being a leading expert. But why not just create a wiki page for her or add her?

That user page is now edit protected.

Here is the imbedded link at that page to one edit dispute in Feb.:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Kappa_Kappa_Gamma&diff=38953741&oldid=38673567

You could make the argument that ppflieger or whoever that was (Evil Gummint Secret Agent Operative Sockpuppet Mole #69) who wrote all that knew in November of 2006 that "THEY" (CIA, FBI, BUSH, Illuminati, ZIONIST Jew Bankers, The NWO, Bilderbergers, NEOCON WELFARE/WARFARE STATE, etc.) wanted to "plant" the false "legend" that Ivins was "obsessed with a sorority" but you'll have to work very hard to convince us skeptics. Is it really that conclusive that he was obsessed with KKG? Eh, I'll leave that to you. The guy had some issues. No one can dispute that.

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