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I've never argued that Ivins is innocent. I really don't know. The point is that, based on what the FBI has done and said, neither does anyone else. And we should know.
Even talking about whether one would "convict" him as a juror now makes absolutely no sense. The evidence hasn't been presented.
And if, after seven years, the FBI hasn't thought about the various possibilities with regard to the postmark -- like it never occurred to the FBI, as the mailman-commenter suggested, that perhaps it could have been dropped in the mailbox earlier but picked up after 5 -- then that's all the more reason to have a full public investigation of this case.
How can they go public with accusations against Ivins and pronounced the case definitively solved and closed if -- on such a vital issue (the "window of opportunity" for doing the mailbox drop, and when Ivins did it) -- they have no idea what they're talking about.
