Post by akira28 on Aug 2, 2008 17:28:40 GMT -5
www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/02/america/ivins.php
This is about the Army scientist Bruce Ivins, who recently was found dead after an apparent suicide. It was also reported that he had been the target of federal prosecution for connection to the anthrax attacks shortly after 9/11. He had been working with the Federal investigation into the attacks and also their prime suspect, one of his research colleagues. Just one month ago, the federal government had to settle the lawsuit started in 2003 by that main suspect and pay him $5Million in compensation. Steven Hatfill, a Biology major in college, was recruited early to work in African medical missions treating malaria. He's a self described Bio-Weapons expert, who joined the Army after graduation and who claimed to have served with Special Forces units(Army disavows knowledge). He was the primary suspect who, after a troubled investigation called off due to lack of evidence, defeated them in court and embarassed them politically. At the time of the initial investigations, they found things that were very questionable, but nothing definative. Some people who would question his character, and others who would defend it. James Hatfill sued the Dept. of Justice, the New York Times, and a former FBI advisor, and the investigation see-sawed into nothing, showing that Mr. Hatfill was either spotless, or at least Very Very *Clean*.
Now in the vein of contingency, and second chances, allegedly near the more recent end of the investigation of Mr. Hatfill, a separate group of agents were directed to investigate Mr. Ivins. Now, no one knows what they found out about the 62 year old, married father of two, devout Catholic, who volunteered for the Red Cross and served his Church parish as a musician. But a Military healthcare social worker gave a written statement that he had a long history of mental issues. I guess the actual documents are confidential, but she went on to offer "He was going to go out in a blaze of glory, and he was going to take everybody out there with him." The abrupt appearance of this long history of mental illness, going back to his days of graduate studies didn't appear to hinder his career in military intelligence and biological research, and so far the only cited witness to this long history of physical threats and homocidal thoughts and need for revenge, "especially against women", is the medical social worker who filed a police restraining order against Ivins a very short time ago.
The problem for me, is that this doesn't seem to align properly. The disgruntled Special Ops Bio-Weapons expert is exonerated. And the dead body who was to be charged in his stead suddenly has a long medical history of mental issues, and the present medical opinion of his social worker that he was a vengeful psychopath who hated women and was a ticking time bomb waiting to explode. The sort of medical history that is categorically confidential except in cases where they need to be trotted out as explanations and mined for criminal motives(or preceptive content depending on what the case shall be). At any rate, we're supposed to accept that this man did all these horrible things, but he's dead now, so everything tidies up and all loose ends are tied, no more questions and every secret died with the very dead, very bad man.
It doesn't line up for me. But does this pass your sniff test?
We talk about conspiracies to reset the time line, conspiracies to enslave humanity, conspiracies to destroy the planet, conspiracies to take over the world, and conspiracies to install a traitorous president. So conspiracies are at this point a fact and characteristic of human life. We've had characters like the Dark Man and God knows who else running amok within the halls of our Government. So what if these conspiracies are a nonpartisan evil within our country's leadership and public service? Something apolitical, but power hungry, with a determined motive? Are there little threads that stick out of the fabric like this story, which are usually flicked away with casual ease, but are sometimes connected more deeply to the hemline? Is it at all possible that this Bruce Ivins was zeroed out? Many of his colleagues have made statements about this man's good character, and disbelief at the conclusions. These men who deal in secrecy and death, the products of their life works never going below the Top Secret classification line. These men who know the practicalities of national security and intelligence operations. These men who saw a Bio-Weapons expert who once claimed ties to black ops escape prosecution and win 5 million in result, and their colleague who mainly researched defenses and vaccines against Anthrax post-humously implicated as the killer. I wonder what they think. What do you think?
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oops, kept mispelling Hatfill's last name.
FREDERICK, Maryland: Bruce Ivins arrived in July at a group counseling session at a psychiatric center here in his hometown with a startling announcement: Facing the prospect of murder charges, he had bought a bulletproof vest and a gun as he contemplated killing his co-workers at the nearby U.S. Army research laboratory.
"He was going to go out in a blaze of glory, and he was going to take everybody out there with him," said a social worker in a transcript of a hearing at which she sought a restraining order against Ivins after his threats.
"He was going to go out in a blaze of glory, and he was going to take everybody out there with him," said a social worker in a transcript of a hearing at which she sought a restraining order against Ivins after his threats.
This is about the Army scientist Bruce Ivins, who recently was found dead after an apparent suicide. It was also reported that he had been the target of federal prosecution for connection to the anthrax attacks shortly after 9/11. He had been working with the Federal investigation into the attacks and also their prime suspect, one of his research colleagues. Just one month ago, the federal government had to settle the lawsuit started in 2003 by that main suspect and pay him $5Million in compensation. Steven Hatfill, a Biology major in college, was recruited early to work in African medical missions treating malaria. He's a self described Bio-Weapons expert, who joined the Army after graduation and who claimed to have served with Special Forces units(Army disavows knowledge). He was the primary suspect who, after a troubled investigation called off due to lack of evidence, defeated them in court and embarassed them politically. At the time of the initial investigations, they found things that were very questionable, but nothing definative. Some people who would question his character, and others who would defend it. James Hatfill sued the Dept. of Justice, the New York Times, and a former FBI advisor, and the investigation see-sawed into nothing, showing that Mr. Hatfill was either spotless, or at least Very Very *Clean*.
Now in the vein of contingency, and second chances, allegedly near the more recent end of the investigation of Mr. Hatfill, a separate group of agents were directed to investigate Mr. Ivins. Now, no one knows what they found out about the 62 year old, married father of two, devout Catholic, who volunteered for the Red Cross and served his Church parish as a musician. But a Military healthcare social worker gave a written statement that he had a long history of mental issues. I guess the actual documents are confidential, but she went on to offer "He was going to go out in a blaze of glory, and he was going to take everybody out there with him." The abrupt appearance of this long history of mental illness, going back to his days of graduate studies didn't appear to hinder his career in military intelligence and biological research, and so far the only cited witness to this long history of physical threats and homocidal thoughts and need for revenge, "especially against women", is the medical social worker who filed a police restraining order against Ivins a very short time ago.
In court records, filed after Ivins discussed his plans to kill his co-workers, a social worker who led the sessions, Jean Duley, said Ivins's psychiatrist had "called him homicidal, sociopath with clear intentions."
She went on to say that the FBI was looking at Ivins and that he would soon be charged with five murders, the same number of fatalities in the anthrax attacks.
"He is a revenge killer," Duley explained to a Maryland District Court in Frederick in July as she sought a restraining order against Ivins. "When he feels that he has been slighted, and especially towards women, he plots and actually tries to carry out revenge killing."
She went on to say that the FBI was looking at Ivins and that he would soon be charged with five murders, the same number of fatalities in the anthrax attacks.
"He is a revenge killer," Duley explained to a Maryland District Court in Frederick in July as she sought a restraining order against Ivins. "When he feels that he has been slighted, and especially towards women, he plots and actually tries to carry out revenge killing."
The problem for me, is that this doesn't seem to align properly. The disgruntled Special Ops Bio-Weapons expert is exonerated. And the dead body who was to be charged in his stead suddenly has a long medical history of mental issues, and the present medical opinion of his social worker that he was a vengeful psychopath who hated women and was a ticking time bomb waiting to explode. The sort of medical history that is categorically confidential except in cases where they need to be trotted out as explanations and mined for criminal motives(or preceptive content depending on what the case shall be). At any rate, we're supposed to accept that this man did all these horrible things, but he's dead now, so everything tidies up and all loose ends are tied, no more questions and every secret died with the very dead, very bad man.
It doesn't line up for me. But does this pass your sniff test?
We talk about conspiracies to reset the time line, conspiracies to enslave humanity, conspiracies to destroy the planet, conspiracies to take over the world, and conspiracies to install a traitorous president. So conspiracies are at this point a fact and characteristic of human life. We've had characters like the Dark Man and God knows who else running amok within the halls of our Government. So what if these conspiracies are a nonpartisan evil within our country's leadership and public service? Something apolitical, but power hungry, with a determined motive? Are there little threads that stick out of the fabric like this story, which are usually flicked away with casual ease, but are sometimes connected more deeply to the hemline? Is it at all possible that this Bruce Ivins was zeroed out? Many of his colleagues have made statements about this man's good character, and disbelief at the conclusions. These men who deal in secrecy and death, the products of their life works never going below the Top Secret classification line. These men who know the practicalities of national security and intelligence operations. These men who saw a Bio-Weapons expert who once claimed ties to black ops escape prosecution and win 5 million in result, and their colleague who mainly researched defenses and vaccines against Anthrax post-humously implicated as the killer. I wonder what they think. What do you think?
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oops, kept mispelling Hatfill's last name.
