More On The Anthrax Attack Case

Some interesting points and questions on the anthrax case.

1. Was Ivins the individual who mailed the deadly letters?

2. Whether he was or not, Ivins most definitely was a USGovernment (USG) employee at the Fort Detrick bio-weapons research facility up until his death.

3. Ivins is being portrayed by the USG as a single, rogue individual, acting alone, mentally deranged. But the USG has not and cannot disavow the fact that Ivins was working for the USG when he allegedly committed the crime.

4. Therefore, it is a matter of record that the anthrax attacks emanated from a facility and employee of the USG itself. There is no debating that frighteningly brutal fact.

In the private sector, employers are often liable and held accountable for the actions of their employees. Does the public sector play by the same rules?

There seems to be a rush by the USG to "close" this case. They solved the mystery; the acting-alone, alleged evil-doer killed himself; no need to dwell on this.

This Blog thinks the real investigation needs to "open" forthwith. The investigation should be conducted outside the realm (if there is any such space still to be found) of the USG. The investigators should be people free, at minimum, of any past service to or employment by any arm of the USG, Executive, Legislative and Judicial.

For further information on the anthrax attack, I have enclosed the following link:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9730

J. Edgar Hoover...Where Are You Now that We Need You? or Anthrax, AntiDepressants Vodka & an FBI With Attention Deficit Disorder

Who the fuck do we have working and running the once-vaunted FBI?

If we are to believe the latest information supplied by the Bureau, the story reads like this:

1. After seven, seven, seven years of intense investigation, the FBI categorically asserts that some scientist by the name of Ivins is the man who committed the anthrax crimes, which resulted in five deaths and other assorted injuries to human beings.

2. We are also told by the Bureau that the guilty man was one of the top scientific consultants/advisers to the Bureau during the course of its investigation.

3. DoJ tells us that Ivins, their man in anthrax, so to speak, was also a psychopathic, drug- and alcohol-abusing individual who was telling his "therapist(s)" that he was going to go out in a "blaze of glory" by shooting to death his colleagues at the workplace. Oh, and, by the way, he also, from time to time during the investigation, was institutionalized/hospitalized for ODing on drugs; and, he also got in the habit of pounding a liter of vodka away every night.

4. He was still an employee in good standing at the USGovernment anthrax/bio-weapons facility when he offed himself.

Is it any wonder that Osama bin Laden roams free, that Iraq is what it is, that the Taliban are re-surging in Afghanistan, when we cannot even figure out who, in an extremely limited universe of possible suspects, is the enemy or one of our consultants?

The new president will inherit a federal government apparatus, in all it multifarious spheres of activity, that has a track record of ineptness unmatched in the history of the Nation.

Prioritizing the house-cleaning will not be easy. But the leadership of the FBI must be dismissed forthwith; at the lower levels, those with any significant connection to the anthrax fiasco should be dismissed as well and the reason for dismissal made unambiguously clear: Gross Incompetence.

I take no joy at all in writing this piece. The Bureau, with its alleged resistance to some of the more viscous tactics expounded by the Bush Admin in its confused War on Terror, seemed to be one of the last federal institutions clinging to competence and principle.

The anthrax case vitiated those hopes for me.