US Government Responsible For Anthrax Attacks Big Time!

[kpete]

U.S. Settles Suit Over Anthrax Attacks
By SCOTT SHANE
Published: November 29, 2011

WASHINGTON — The federal government has agreed to pay $2.5 million to the widow and children of the first person killed in the anthrax letter attacks of 2001, settling a lawsuit claiming that the Army did not adequately secure its supply of the deadly pathogen.

The settlement with the family of Robert Stevens, a tabloid photo editor in Florida, follows an eight-year legal battle that exposed slack rules and sloppy recordkeeping at the Army’s biodefense laboratory at Fort Detrick, in Frederick, Md. As part of the agreement, Justice Department lawyers are seeking to have many documents that were uncovered in the litigation kept under court seal or destroyed.

Mr. Stevens’s widow, Maureen, filed suit against the government in 2003, as evidence accumulated that the anthrax powder in the lethal letters had come from an Army laboratory. The F.B.I. finally concluded in 2008 that the letters were sent by Bruce E. Ivins, a microbiologist who worked on anthrax vaccines at the Army lab in Maryland, though some of his colleagues and friends have maintained that he was innocent.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/30/us/anthrax-victims-family-to-receive-2-5-million-in-settlement.html?_r=1&hp

[Huey P. Long]

1. Anthrax attack was an inside job. -eom

[fasttense]

2. They should make Cheney and Rove pay the fine.

After all, they were the ones who authorized it.

[malaise]

7. Ding ding we have a winner

I agree

[Dover]

3. Ought to sue the government for 9-11 deaths too... n/t

[xchrom]

4. Recommend

[boston bean]

5. wow

:wow:

[Huey P. Long]

6. The settlement was to prevent details from coming out, and will be 'sealed', no doubt.

I think we all know what those details would reveal.

[Huey P. Long]

8. .

[Huey P. Long]

9. Well, I guess enough time has passed and the populace can be attacked again

and they get away with it...again.

[Huey P. Long]

10. .

[gratuitous]

11. Bush kept us safe, safe, safe!

Okay, except for that 9/11 messiness which could have happened to anyone (but didn't, but don't think about that), and the loss of the spy plane to our good friends the Chinese, and the Japanese fishing boat that was destroyed when some wealthy campaign contributores were joy-riding in a submarine, and the anthrax attacks that nobody knows how it happened or nothing, and the Beltway Sniper, and . . .

Well, you're still alive, aren't you? So kwitcherbellyachin'!

[AntiFascist]

12. K&R...

"In a July filing in the civil case, Justice Department lawyers said Dr. Ivins “did not have the specialized equipment” in his lab to make the dry anthrax powder in the letters — appearing to contradict the department’s claims in the criminal case. Days later, the lawyers retracted the statement."