We all know now that Hatfill had nothing to do with Anthrax attacks. He filed a lawsuit and won, got 5.6 million for his pain. It was unfortunate that the FBI chased the wrong person for years, litterly destroying his reputation but who is at fault here? Should the FBI be held accountable or is there something more sinister to this story?

The latest fall guy, the now-deceased Bruce E. Ivins was pinpointed as their top suspect within the last year. Flimsy evidence gathered during the investigation by the FBI fail to directly link Ivins to the attacks and only points him out to the ‘knowlegable’ as patsy, nothing more then an attempt by the government to find a fall guy that the media could swallow. The FBI knew that the anthrax originated at the Ft. Detrick Biological division with a small number of scientists. With that in mind it takes the FBI 7yrs to ‘close-in’ on the suspect? According to news sources the FBI started ‘hounding’ Ivins in 2006 after a shakeup in the Agency. This probably aggravated his already chronic depression which lead to his suicide.

Bruce Ivins worked in the same location as Hatfill, Ivins apparently had the classic MO for a possible suspect but the FBI focused all their attention on Hatfill? How many people were in the Lab? Exactly how many people had access to weaponized anthrax? Was Ivins ever bought in for questioning? Was he polygraphed during this long impressive FBI investigation?

Anyone with eyes can see that the intent of the Anthrax attacks was to create a link between Islamic extremists and the 9/11 attacks. The deadly letters were sent to our media elite as well as prominent congressmen, then-Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD) and Sen. Pat Leahy (D-Vt) who were in someway connected to the passage of the Patriot Act. An esquisitly planned attack (who in my opinion had to know in advance about the 9/11 hijackings) for someone so unstable as Ivin.

Let’s assume Ivins stole weapons grade Anthrax out of the facility and took it home. Where were the security measures for the lab? Is it that easy to get materials out of a military lab? If materials were stolen out of the lab in 2001 why wasn’t their a full scale military investigation into the matter? (beside the bumbled FBI investigation.)

Recently Ivins’ social worker Jean C. Duley filed a hand written document stating she was prepared to testify before the Grand Jury where he would have been charged with 5 Capitol murders. She also stated that he had a long history of questionable behavior.

“Client has a history dating to his graduate days of homicidal threats, plans and actions towards therapists,” Duley said, adding that his psychiatrist had described him as homicidal and sociopathic.

The question comes to mind if the guy was “homicidal and sociopathic” then why was he allowed to work at a highly classified and dangerous military lab? Do we normally hire unstable types with limited to no background investigations and let them have run of the biological weapons? Why wasn’t Ivins suspended during the investigation if he was such a prime suspect? Instead the FBI let the guy roam around dangerous weapons for 6 years. It’s like leaving a pedophile in a grade school for years even though you know he is one.

Strange indeed. There are far too many questions then answers as usual.

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