Lawyer: Evidence against Bruce Ivins 'undercut'

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Lawyer: Evidence against Bruce Ivins 'undercut'
February 10, 2009 - 12:33pm
Neal Augenstein, WTOP.com

FREDERICK, Md. - The lawyer for the scientist dubbed the FBI's sole suspect in the deadly anthrax mailings in 2001 says Fort Detrick's acknowledgement of inventory control problems "seriously undermines the assertions that he was the source of the anthrax."

On Monday, the Army said it suspended much of the research at its biological weapons defense laboratory in Frederick while it makes sure it has accounted for all of its dangerous germs and poisons.

In an interview with WTOP, Bruce Ivins' Attorney Thomas DeGonia says he's surprised it took Fort Detrick so long to re-inventory its biological materials in light of the scrutiny drawn by the investigation into the anthrax mailings that killed five people and sickened 17 others in 2001.

Ivins killed himself in July 2008 after learning he would be charged in the attacks.

http://www.wtop.com/?nid=25&sid=1597836

[bobthedrummer]

1. "inventory control problems"... k&r

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2. The FBI have admitted, in response to National Academy of Science test results,

that they DID NOT get a match after 200 tries of trying to duplicate what they claim Ivins did. They did NOT reverse engineer anything at all, their fake claims to special new science are bullshit. What a surprise.

They also claimed that the water in Frederick had singular properties that could be identified in the anthrax and that turned out to be fake, too.

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3. Kick

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4. I really do believe, as DeGonia suggests

that the the science community (the good guys)really want to see this man vindicated. I read that it appeared at a site for the AAAS:

Officials have begun a complete inventory of all select agents and toxins at the facility. All experiments using select agents will remain suspended until the accounting is finished, which could take several weeks. Several USAMRIID researchers have been grumbling about the decision, which seems to have caught them by surprise, according to a government official not connected to the lab.

The decision was announced by institute commander Col. John Skvorak in a 4 February memo to employees. The memo, which ScienceInsider has obtained, says the standard of accountability that USAMRIID had been applying to its select agents and toxins was not in line with the standard required by the Army and the Department of Defense. USAMRIID officials believed that a satisfactory accounting involved finding all the items listed on its database; the Army and DOD wanted the converse—that is, all select agents and toxins needed to be matched to the database.

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/02/us-army-lab-fre-1.html

And as a whole further sidebar of thought and the pure madness, there's this....

According to the memo, any materials found without a corresponding record in the database must be reported to the Vice Chief of Staff of the Army. "I believe that the probability that there are additional vials of BSAT not captured in our … database is high," Skvorak wrote.

A former USAMRIID scientist told ScienceInsider that in the past, inventorying of biological materials at the institute routinely turned up items that had not been listed on the database before. Those items would be added to the database without shutting down research.

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5. The last time I talked with some of them, I was told they were considering

a law suit. :hi:

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6. kick