Anthrax suspect dies in apparent suicide

Los Angeles Times via Kansascity.com ^ | 8/1/08 | David Willman

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

The way we mocked the Justice Department’s press conference about Hatfill in 2002?

You were here back then. I’m sure you remember those.

[jpl]

Hopefully this was really the guy that did it.

Agreed, but add me to the list of people who are very skeptical. This reeks to me of total disinformation, and a very nice and handy way to "wrap up the case", and get people off the FBIs back about the anthrax.

If it's true though, and this really was the guy, then that means all the people who thought Hatfill did it were wrong.

[jpl]

What do you guys think about this bit of news?

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

Interested in hearing your thoughts here...

[Defiant]

Understood.

[TrebleRebel]

Ivins didn’t have the skill set to make tyhe powder that was sent to Daschle. He may have stolen a powder from Detrick. The forensic evidence is the key. If they close the case now, it means no trial and no forensic evidence will ever have to be released. This is very convenient.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

It’s inconceivable to me that anyone could trust anything the FBI says about this investigation at this point.

In seven years, they have nothing but a $5 million tab for smearing an innocent man. Now, out of the blue, we have a dead guy and a closed case? I don’t think so.

[jpl]

If our old pal “The Great Satan” were still here, I suspect that he would say this is the true wrapup of “Operation Amerithrax”!

[lainie]

My thought too. As a supposed murderer, using weapons-grade anthrax, you’d think he would choose a cleaner method.

hm.

[lainie]

bttt

[Mitchell]

Ping.

[wolfcreek]

Someone NOT on that list. Dr. Phillip Zack

This thing is a major cover up.

[piasa]

Bookmarking a Friday news release... have to wait until later to read the article to see if everything in it is anonymously sourced or not. What's here looks less informative than what Rosenberg and all gave us on Hatfill.

A name the FBI managed not to leak until now? I'm shocked.

Wonder what his internet handle was?

[girlangler]

Hmmm.

Dangerous job.

I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but this is pretty weird.

I don’t think the public will EVER find out who sent the anthrax letters.

[piasa]

Bookmarking a Friday news release... have to wait until later to read the article to see if everything in it is anonymously sourced or not. What's here looks less informative than what Rosenberg and all gave us on Hatfill.

A name the FBI managed not to leak until now? I'm shocked.

Wonder what his internet handle was?

[piasa]

Ivins died Tuesday at Frederick Memorial Hospital after having ingested a massive dose of prescription Tylenol mixed with codeine, said a friend and colleague who declined to be identified out of concern, he said, that he would be harassed by the FBI.

I would think that if this guy really was about to be indicted that the "friend" and colleague would already have been thoroughly harassed by the FBI by now. And if the friend and colleague doesn't like being harassed why would he or she go to the press and for all practical purposes beg to be harassed by them instead? What kind of a friend tells the world that their dead buddy overdosed before the obit even makes the news?

[VOA]

Anthrax suspect dies in apparent suicide

What a unsatisfactory outcome.

Wouldn't be suprised if some folks popped a bottle of champagne
upon hearing of this, because:

1. A semi-plausible story (or fiction?) can be sold to the public
about the FBI finally "getting their man" in the anthrax case

AND/OR

2. The FBI/US Treasury won't have to fork over (AT THE LEAST) another
$6 Million to someone they hounded for a number of years.

Ivins may have been guilty as sin.
Too bad a cloud has been put over the whole anthrax affair.

[jpl]

It’s inconceivable to me that anyone could trust anything the FBI says about this investigation at this point.

I agree and I don't either, but the majority of people who don't follow this sort of stuff as closely as we do here at F.R. will generally swallow most of what they hear.

Most people are just going to assume that this guy was guilty all the way. But had Hatfill given up and committed suicide years ago instead of deciding to stand and fight, would people have believed the same thing about him? Almost certainly so.

Already, friends and colleagues of Ivins are beginning to come out to say that they don't believe he had anything to do with this.

[VOA]

Ivins died Tuesday at Frederick Memorial Hospital after having ingested
a massive dose of prescription Tylenol mixed with codeine,
said a friend and colleague who declined to be identified out
of concern, he said, that he would be harassed by the FBI.

No Shiite, Sherlock!

I don't know if the treatment of the previous suspect will accelerate
the desertion of science careers by American youth...
or draw them in with the hopes of a $6 million payday after being
hounded for about half-a-decade.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Wow!