And he’s from southern Ohio. Below is some info:

http://www.daytondailynews.com…..ivins.html

Suspected anthrax mailer brilliant but troubled man
Scientist killed himself as FBI closed in
By David Dishneau
FREDERICK, Md. — Lebanon native Bruce E. Ivins was a juggler, a gardener, a church musician, a Red Cross volunteer — and a suspected multiple murderer, according to federal authorities.

Anthrax-laced letters that killed five people and rattled the post-9/11 nation may have been part of the Army scientist’s warped plan to test his cure for the deadly toxin, officials said Friday, Aug. 1.

Some people who knew the scientist scoffed at the government’s assertion that Ivins sent the anthrax letters. But court documents indicate the outwardly mild-mannered Ivins had a menacing side.

Documents show that Ivins recently received psychiatric treatment, and that he was ordered last week to stay away from Jean C. Duley, a social worker who counseled him. In her application for a protective order, Duley wrote that Ivins had stalked and threatened to kill her and had a long history of homicidal threats.

Ivins, 62, committed suicide Tuesday as prosecutors zeroed in on him as a suspect in the 2001 attacks. They planned to indict him and seek the death penalty.

His father, T. Randall Ivins, ran a pharmacy in Lebanon, where the researcher and his two older brothers grew up. After graduation, Ivins received three degrees, including a Ph.D. in microbiology, from the University of Cincinnati.

Tom R. Ivins, 73, who stressed that he had not spoken to his brother since 1985, was not shocked to hear that Bruce was accused of making death threats. He also conceded the possibility that Bruce may have been the anthrax mailer.

“It makes sense, what the social worker said,” said Tom Ivins, who lives in Middletown. “He considered himself like a god.”

Some who knew Ivins said the investigation was too much for him to bear. But they also asserted his innocence.

“The relentless pressure of accusation and innuendo takes its toll in different ways,” his attorney, Paul F. Kemp, said in a statement. “In Dr. Ivins’ case, it led to his untimely death.”

Ivins had worked for the past 18 years at the government’s biodefense labs at Fort Detrick. He and wife Diane, a stay-at-home mom who ran a day care center out of the family’s home, lived nearby in Frederick. They have two adult children: a son, Andy, and a daughter, Amanda.

He worked to develop a vaccine that was effective even when different strains of anthrax were mixed. In 2003, he shared the Decoration for Exceptional Civilian Service — the highest honor for Defense Department civilian employees.

“I think he was just psychologically exhausted by the whole process,” said Dr. W. Russell Byrne, a colleague of Ivins. He said Ivins was “hounded” by FBI agents who raided his home twice.

“There are people who you just know are ticking bombs,” Byrne said. “He was not one of them.”

His friends and family say no way. What, they didn’t know he was a crazed psycho killer as we learned vis a vis his rather poorly trained counselor???

So, earlier today I just thought it was curious. Now, I have folded up a nice shiny tinfoil hat.

This is like a plot to a bad spy movie. Powerful men in the deep shadows of government attempt to murder/intimidate the opposition. They fail at their first framing attempt. Too-smart sci guy gets suspicious, advises his superiors that something is rotten in Denmark, becomes target. Up and dies suddenly, and the investigation is “solved.”

This plot is not exactly a new ploy–the murders of the Gracci brothers were pawned off on low-level, low-power stooges in Rome while the real plotters went free.

Don’t be so quick to buy the official story Jane. These people really are bad, that evil. A closed investigation is not justice to the people that died and those that still suffer from their exposure to weapons-grade anthrax. Unless they can show beyond a reasonable doubt that Dr. Ivins did this thing, it seems to simple an ending to the story–especially since murder appears as one of the options on the official White House table these days.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..re=related

Here’s the lyrics:

Don’t walk the plank like I did
You will be dispensed with
When you’ve become inconvenient
Up on Harrowdown Hill
Where you used to go to school
Thats where I am
Thats where I’m lying down

Did I fall or was I pushed?
Did I fall or was I pushed?
And wheres the blood?
And wheres the blood?

I’m coming home
I’m coming home
To make it all right
So dry your eyes

We think the same things at the same time
We just cant do anything about it

So don’t ask me
Ask the ministry
Don’t ask me
Ask the ministry

We think the same things at the same time
There are so many of us
So you can’t count

We think the same things at the same time
There are too many of us
So you can’t count

Can you see me when I’m running?
Can you see me when I’m running?
Away from them

I can’t take their pressure
No one cares if you live or die
They just want me gone
They want me gone

I’m coming home
I’m coming home
To make it all right
So dry your eyes

We think the same things at the same time
We just cant do anything about it

We think the same things at the same time
There are too many of us
So you can’t count

I was lured into the back of Harrowdown Hill
It was me lured into the back of Harrowdown Hill
I was lured into the back of Harrowdown Hill
It was a slippery slippery slippery slope
It was a slippery slippery slippery slope
I feel me slipping in and out of consciousness
I feel me slipping in and out of consciousness
I feel me…

(it was a CNN news break on WGAN AM560 here in Maine)

1) Ivins’ attorney stated that there were no immediate charges coming to his client

2) The neighbor to Ivins said via audio that the FBI was at his house a lot and had been for at least a year consistently

3) Someone (not sure if it was police, the reporter, or an associate of Ivins’) stated that the FBI mostly likely witnessed Ivins’ death.

Very, very interesting.

The FBI killed him because Ivins was going to blow the doors off by going public with what he knew (he didn’t kill himself because of the “imminent” charges) and this information would have been very damaging to the Bush White House, because as we all know, it was them that sent the anthrax out after 9/11. They had to kill him because he knew too much and wanted to go public to protect himself from what they did. He didn’t want to be the patsy.

As you and others suggest, if Ms. Duley and Mr. Ivins had a mental health provider-patient relationship (ie, were she not involved merely as an administrator forwarding records), her credentials seem laughably inadequate, given the unique stresses of Ivins’ work.

Yet, the FBI claims that Ivins orchestrated one of the worst terror attacks the US has witnessed, with weapons from his own lab, and successfully linked it at just the right time to Saddam Hussein and 9/11.

Which would be worse: that the FBI is right, and they can’t prove it seven years later, or that they’re wrong and they’ve still got nothing seven years later?

Is the government itself involved? Did it only order a go slow? Are we not supposed to know that the anthrax murders were an own goal by our own bio-weapons experts using weapons from our own super-secure facilities? That would convince Americans George Bush and the Goopers know how to keep us safe. Who leaked selectively to Village reporters, telling them to take Cipro? And by extension, who failed to tell the rest of official Washington and us?

The black hole that is the CheneyBush administration just got deeper. One would think a responsible Congress might want to empower a Select Committee to get to the bottom of this, if there is one. Its leadership was among the anthrax murderers’ prime targets.

at the top of the 3PM PST hour, KALW began the BBC’s “newshour”. [1 hr delay]

The announcement re Ivins included word (IIRC) “who possibly killed himself” — and then led a report of the medical examiner’s announcement.

WTF??? Do they think we are stooooopid????