People beginning to ask why a paranoid, delusional and obsessive scientist was allowed to work with, you know, ANTHRAX
Privacy concerns, bureaucracy, demands of case allowed Ivins to keep job
What a bunch of BS! They can arrest and send elderly ladies to federal prison for being a couple feet onto government property while demonstrating for peace, or standing in front of a recruiting office with anti-war signs. They can arrest Iraqi children and “detain” them in Gitmo prison for years without legal representation and anyone else they choose for any or no reason. Yet they claim they couldn’t arrest someone they claim is a nutcase who has made numerous death threats while working at a high security lab facility??? My kids could have told a better, more believable story than that when they were pre-teenagers.
The man was a scapegoat, murdered to cover some bushco criminal crony or cronies. GK
WASHINGTON – What took so long?
Army scientist Bruce Ivins had a history of paranoia, obsession and delusional thinking. And newly unsealed court documents show he didn’t keep them to himself.
Therapists knew.
Doctors knew.
Co-workers suspected. One complained he was a “manic basket case.” Another recalled him openly weeping at his desk inside one of the military’s top biological warfare facilities.
The Justice Department, too, had long focused on Ivins. Investigators discovered years ago that he worked late nights just before the 2001 anthrax attacks. And by 2005, government scientists had genetically linked anthrax in his lab to the toxin that killed five people.
EXCERPT “The Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, known as USAMRIID, follows strict security measures meant to weed out troubled scientists. It has offered no explanation for why Ivins was allowed to work with some of the world’s most dangerous toxins while taking antidepressants and receiving counseling to control his inner demons.”
Yet Ivins stayed on the job at the military lab at Fort Detrick.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26079888/
As usual, too little, too late.
Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) calls for investigation of investigation of anthrax
Anthrax Case Court documents unsealed
http://www.usdoj.gov/amerithrax/