“Norm Covert, a conservative former Fort Detrick public affairs officer] echoes what is widely reported by reputable scientists. The anthrax in the mailings, he says, was “highly bred, weapons-grade ... with a silica coating and a slight electrical charge so that each particle repelled the other ... each particle no more than five microns.” Ivins had neither the expertise nor the equipment to create such a sophisticated form of anthrax.....”
Who is Norman Covert and what did he know?
Army’s ‘Anthrax Tower’ Still Stands, Sentry to Germ’s Longevity
“When it gets into spore form it can hide just about anywhere,” Covert said of anthrax.
Electric frying pans with a solid form of the compound paraformaldehyde were placed throughout the building then heated, releasing clouds of poisonous gas inside the sealed structure. Bacteria, similar to anthrax, were left inside to serve as “markers” indicating whether the gas worked.
“But, because it was anthrax, they could only say that it was 99.9 percent safe,” Covert said, adding that everything inside the building had potentially been exposed to the microscopic bacterium.....”
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,37508,00.html
Who is Norm Covert and what does he know:
A History of Fort Detrick, Maryland
Cutting Edge...A History of Fort Detrick, Maryland” was originally compiled and written by Norman M. Covert, Fort Detrick’s public affairs officer and historian from 1977 to 1999.
Mr. Covert has retired from his Fort Detrick position and lives in Frederick, Maryland.
http://www.detrick.army.mil/cutting_edge/index.cfm
Norm Covert went to Chaplain School, not to MIT. He's a media guy. Do you really believe media people know more about science than scientists? If so, then you would undoubtedly accept the nonsense that a journalist wrote in Science magazine over what scientists say about that nonsense.