[Shermy]

Gems from Daschle:

Daschle said the most compelling evidence to him is the odd, extended hours that the Army scientist kept shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks. [sic-they began before]

“He had no real explanation for the significant increase,” Daschle said. “His only response was that he wanted to hang out there, which was not a very compelling reason.”

He said investigators ruled out the other people who had access to Ivins’ anthrax based on other information that was available.

“They had stiff alibis or ... they were not in a position to take the material for purposes of this kind,” Daschle said. “Each one had a specific disqualifying aspect.”

[muawiyah]

A secondary item being swept under the carpet with the Ivins thesis is the fact that Postal management KNEW WITH CERTAINTY that there were untold thousands of postal trays and other containers that had been inside the anthrax contaminated buildings during the period before anyone knew of the contamination, but those same containers were out circulating among hundreds of postal installations on the East Coast.

They made a decision at the top to NOT DESTROY those containers for the purpose of stopping any further contamination of mail, or other facilities. Instead, they let the equipment circulate. Several deaths then happened that can be explained only through contact with mail that'd been in contact with contaminated postal equipment.

The FBI appears to be prepared to let several top executives at USPS get away with crimes a tad more serious than accidental homicide.