i was right with kappa kappa - thanks LWM.

The letters were mailed from Princeton on two specific dates between specific times. At minimum the FBI should have set out in the affidavit that on those dates Dr Ivins's work records showed he checked in at such and such a time and out at such and such a time thus leaving him time to go from his work site to Princeton. This is easy. Why is it missing?

Tom Feeley, the author of Information Clearing House (a top antiwar site which publishes lots of "news you wont hear on CNN") has been threatened by three men armed with guns in his own kitchen. His wife complained to the FBI who said they cannot do anything about it. Read about it here: http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=9111

The scary thing is that I do not think this is off-topic.

A big story at ICH today (linked at my moniker below) suggests There Is Going To Be An i-9/11 And An i-Patriot Act:

Amazing revelations have emerged concerning already existing government plans to overhaul the way the internet functions in order to apply much greater restrictions and control over the web.

Lawrence Lessig, a respected Law Professor from Stanford University told an audience at this years Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech conference in Half Moon Bay, California, that “There’s going to be an i-9/11 event” which will act as a catalyst for a radical reworking of the law pertaining to the internet.

Lessig also revealed that he had learned, during a dinner with former government Counter Terrorism Czar Richard Clarke, that there is already in existence a cyber equivalent of the Patriot Act, an “i-Patriot Act” if you will, and that the Justice Department is waiting for a cyber terrorism event in order to implement its provisions.

I do not mean to detract from all the fine work being done on this blog. I am not sure what we can do for Tom except disseminate this story far and wide.

Things are getting weird. Now we know how our parents and grandparents felt when they killed JFK.

The guy doing the talking said that that Tom must "Stop what he is doing on the Internet, NOW!"

Hopefully you will be able to read and comprehend what I wrote.

Swollen arthritic fingers and bad eyes. As I said, I'm not reading through released docs. Those of you who are may already have seen the Wiki stuff - I don't know if it's in there, I'm not reading it - and know the FBI thinks Ivins and Flatheadjimmy are one and the same and why they think that. And you know why they claim he was "obsessed" with KKG. It's pretty thin gruel, even I'll admit that, but there it is. I found this thru The SmokingGun and Wiki. Now the rest of you know and can go and see it for yourselves. I edit wiki articles but I couldn't be bothered to even read one on Frats or Sororities. Different strokes. Some more:

With regards to your comments on the talk page for Kappa Kappa Gamma Please do not make personal attacks on other people. Wikipedia has a policy against No personal attacks. In some cases, users who engage in personal attacks may be blocked from editing by admins or banned by the arbitration committee. Comment on content, not on other contributors or people. Please resolve disputes appropriately. Thank you.

In particular, I am citing you for offline harassment by contacting not through my wikipedia account and email, but at my work email. Your tone sounds like blackmail. You continue this tone in other posts on the talk page. I suggest reviewing Wikiquette before your next post.

With regard to the issue you have stalked me on rather than posting - you have a right to defend your sources, I have a right to question them. “My friend confirms it” is not a source. Books published in 1930 can be a source, but it appropriate to consider their age when citing, especially when there are later sources that may be more relevant. The appropriate forum for this discussion is the talk page, preferably in a civil manner.

Thank you. ppfleiger 21:22, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Jimmyflathead&oldid=38969329

That's alarming news about Tom. He provides a real service. Did he get any sense for who these people might be or report it to local police? They should be aware in case there are more problems.

From:

One of the Grandmas who was around for the JFK assassination.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/06/america/07anthrax.php

Apparently, out of the thousands of different ways to say "Death to America" and "Death to Israel," Ivins and the anthrax attacker wrote them the same way in his emails and in the letters:

Death to America

Death to Israel

This is damning circumstantial evidence indeed.

First of all, it's important to understand how the genetic analysis worked.

In the modern world, it is now possible to rapidly sequence microbial genomes, which are fairly small. If you sequence many strains of anthrax bacteria, you can find regions that serve to identify individual strains, and you can make assays for that strain based on those regions.

That's work that was done by many people, much of it led by Paul Keim of Northern Arizona. They came up with tests that could rapidly screen large numbers of samples for various strains, based on four regions, as reported in the FBI documents.

What the FBI did, according to their report, is to test a flask (Chain of evidence? Control?) using their 4-marker genetic screen - but what they didn't do is the next obvious step: sequence the entire genome of what was in the flask in order to compare it to the entire genome of the letters in the spore.

They only used the first, cruder indentification test, and did not do the obvious check: sequencing the entire genome of whatever was in the flask to verify it against the genome sequence of the mailed anthrax spores.

see http://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/journals/ancham/80/i13/html/0708feature_keim.html (from one month ago)

Though whole-genome sequencing is still somewhat expensive, new technologies already show enormous potential to substantially reduce the cost (e.g., 454 and Illumina). The current cost for a draft genome of a microbial pathogen can be as low as $500, and efforts are under way to reduce it to ≤$100 (33). Even by today’s standards, from a cost perspective, it is reasonable to sequence the complete genome of any pathogenic isolate involved in a nefarious incident or from a natural outbreak to obtain a complete DNA signature for forensic or historical comparisons.

The FBI states that there were over 1000 samples that they tested, but what they don't say is whether they got any samples from Dugway or from Battelle - they refuse to report on whether those companies were subpoenaed, and FBI Director Mueller declared in 2002 that Battelle and Dugway were not being investigated - amazingly enough - and so we don't even know if the FBI tested all the anthrax stocks from Dugway and Battelle, even though Battelle and Dugway were the previous manufacturers of military-grade anthrax for the U.S. military (i.e. the CIA and the DIA, on Battelle projects Clear Vision and Jefferson).

On very basic technical grounds, this appears to be a huge flaw in the analysis. Very few reports have covered this aspect of the case, and only obliquely. Here is one:

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/nation/stories/DN-nuanthrax_04nat.ART.State.Edition2.4d8715a.html

As the investigation dragged on, authorities later enlisted J. Craig Venter, founder of a Rockville, Md., institute that had helped map the human genome. Based on analyses performed at The Institute for Genomic Research, Dr. Venter said "it almost had to be a government scientist." The institute's analysis was completed under contract to the FBI and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

He recalled federal investigators retrieving the anthrax evidence from the institute."FBI came in and took freezers and all the samples," Dr. Venter said in an interview Sunday.

Ibis Biosciences, a company in Carlsbad, Calif., performed some of the most recent anthrax analysis. The company tells its clients, including the FBI, that its high-resolution anthrax genotyping kit provides analyses more advanced than any other technology worldwide. In fact, the company's test results buoyed FBI and Justice Department officials...

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Thus, we can be clear about one thing: the strain in the flask was never subjected to whole genome sequencing in order to confirm that the test had actually identified a real match to the spores in the letter - this is an obvious step to take, but they didn't do it!

Fraud. I wonder if Ibis Biosciences can be subpoenaed by Congress on this? Unreal, from their website.

Ibis Biosciences has received development funding from U.S. government agencies including the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). View a complete list of government partners.

Who has huge contracts from DARPA, NIAID, etc? Who manages the NIAID center for the federal government? Battelle Memorial Institute, the same giant private research corporation that also manages Dugway Utah, Oak Ridge TN, etc.

This looks very rotten, across the board. They didn't get a whole-genome sequence from the "target flask" - why not?

Maybe this is part of the reason they want to close the case as well:

Battelle was notified recently that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a 10-year potential $257 million contract to support the management and operations of a National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) research lab. The High Containment Integrated Research Facility is currently under construction and will be part of Fort Detrick’s National Interagency Biodefense Campus in Frederick, Maryland. When fully functioning, Battelle will provide up to 119 scientists, researchers and technicians to staff the facility. The lab is scheduled to open in fall of 2008.

Yes - lots of reasons why they want to close this case asap.