Kemp says when investigators asked Ivins for an anthrax sample, he thought they were asking for a pure culture sample. It wasn’t until six weeks later that they called and said they had wanted something else.

http://www.npr.org/templates/s…..038;f=1001

The CIA’s Role in the Anthrax Mailings:
Could Our Spies be Agents for Military-Industrial Sabotage, Terrorism, and Even Population Control?

Bravo to Firedoglake for addressing this charged issue … and may God bless and protect Dr. Horowitz and all doctors and scientists and activists and journalists speaking out such complex and highly controversial matters.

Health Lover Ilena Rosenthal

This American “lone nut” scenario will continue to arise as long as entrenched power can make it work without consequences.

No tin foil required, just study the evidence.

This ran in the WSJ two days ago. Mr. Spertzel, the author, was head of the biological-weapons section of that pesky group Unscom from 1994-99, and was a member of the Iraq Survey Group.

Bruce Ivins Wasn’t the Anthrax Culprit

By RICHARD SPERTZEL
August 5, 2008; Page A17

Over the past week the media was gripped by the news that the FBI was about to charge Bruce Ivins, a leading anthrax expert, as the man responsible for the anthrax letter attacks in September/October 2001.

But despite the seemingly powerful narrative that Ivins committed suicide because investigators were closing in, this is still far from a shut case. The FBI needs to explain why it zeroed in on Ivins, how he could have made the anthrax mailed to lawmakers and the media, and how he (or anyone else) could have pulled off the attacks, acting alone.

I believe this is another mistake in the investigation.

Let’s start with the anthrax in the letters to Sens. Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy. The spores could not have been produced at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, where Ivins worked, without many other people being aware of it. Furthermore, the equipment to make such a product does not exist at the institute.

Information released by the FBI over the past seven years indicates a product of exceptional quality. The product contained essentially pure spores. The particle size was 1.5 to 3 microns in diameter. There are several methods used to produce anthrax that small. But most of them require milling the spores to a size small enough that it can be inhaled into the lower reaches of the lungs. In this case, however, the anthrax spores were not milled.

What’s more, they were also tailored to make them potentially more dangerous. According to a FBI news release from November 2001, the particles were coated by a “product not seen previously to be used in this fashion before.” Apparently, the spores were coated with a polyglass which tightly bound hydrophilic silica to each particle. That’s what was briefed (according to one of my former weapons inspectors at the United Nations Special Commission) by the FBI to the German Foreign Ministry at the time.

http://online.wsj.com/article/…..11775.html