How does somebody get fired twice?

For Christ sake have the dignity to quit, not quibble about just cause, and have some damned respect for yourself...

How in the hell does somebody get fired twice?

Interesting, but from ABC. Was this guy in South Florida? Trenton?

Just as likely, if it was American athrax, a scientist could have sold some for money under the table, politics, etc.

This looks like a version of the story that was being rumored among biologists at that convention in Geneva a few weeks ago. It was said to have been leaked by German Greenpeace and some of clinton's former aides. As I've been saying for some time, it's the likeliest explanation I've seen.

Only that earlier version suggested that the scientist was hoping to scare the government into giving him a contract for his company, not that it was someone with a grudge over being fired.

I think they should look for a New Jersey connection if they want to save time interviewing people.

Ping.

How does somebody get fired twice?

LOL Mary Frances Berry. Watch.

"The program's been going on a number of years, thank God," said Rep. Christopher Shays, R-Conn.
"I mean, the purpose of the program is for us to know how to deal with an attack."

But the Army won't talk about the anthrax production, and has not shared what it learned with civilian authorities.

The Army says all of the anthrax it has made since l997 is accounted for. But what the FBI is really looking for is one of the 200 or so U.S. scientists who have been secretly making anthrax — looking for the one who may have used the bacteria to wreak havoc.

Yep...And I have a bridge in NY for sale...Buy it and I'll throw in some ocean front property in beautiful Las Vegas Nevada...
Uh Huh..!!!

You believe all that..???

How in the hell does somebody get fired twice?

Hell, Clinton was impeached and discraced, but still dug his smelly fingernails into the White House carpet when it was time to drag him out screaming! Some people are just fools for themselves.

From the ABC article:

The FBI is now interviewing current and former scientists in Utah and at the second secret anthrax-producing facility, Battelle in Columbus, Ohio, a nonprofit corporation that does the work for the CIA and the military.

Guess it is not a "SECRET" anymore. Thanks ABC.

LOL Mary Frances Berry. Watch.

Congratulations. My pick for line of the day.

I think some of these eggheads read too many Superhero/villan comics and begin to see themselves as the evil Dr. Doom -- boohaahaa boohaahaa

Let's hope that, if the culprit is caught, he is not a well educated version of Timothy McVeigh. The mainstream media would love to fry the right if the culprit is an "angry white male", just as conservative talk shows and Internet sites have been using "Jihad Johnny" Walker as a club against the limousine liberals of Marin County, California, and similar places.

The FBI is now interviewing current and former scientists in Utah and at the second secret anthrax-producing facility, Battelle in Columbus, Ohio, a nonprofit corporation that does the work for the CIA and the military.

Guess it's not a secret anymore.

If this is legit, there has to be some super P*SSED OFF Agents right now.

There is nothing worse than working on a case and having it shot in the arse by some moron leaking confidential information to the press.

Ya beat me to it.

Made in America

FBI Probes U.S. Scientist in Anthrax Investigation

By Brian Ross

W A S H I N G T O N, Dec. 19 — Now convinced the anthrax mailed in poison letters was made in the United States, federal authorities told ABCNEWS they are investigating a fired scientist who allegedly threatened to use the potentially deadly bacteria.

Unknown to all but a few government officials, the United States has been producing small quantities of weapons-grade anthrax for several years at two secret locations, one of them the Army's Dugway Proving Ground in the Utah desert. The FBI is now interviewing current and former scientists in Utah and at the second secret anthrax-producing facility, Battelle in Columbus, Ohio, a nonprofit corporation that does the work for the CIA and the military.

Focus Narrows

An estimated 200 U.S. scientists dealt with the anthrax program over the last five years and federal authorities have told ABCNEWS they are now investigating the activities of a senior research scientist who was twice fired from Battelle and allegedly made a threat to use anthrax in the days after Sept. 11.

According to an FBI affidavit, agents searched the home of one former top Battelle scientist in late September after he allegedly made threats about using anthrax. Agents said they found suspicious chemicals but no anthrax, according to the sources.

Authorities told ABCNEWS the program, designed to protect U.S. soldiers, grew out of the Gulf War. The idea was to replicate the kind of anthrax Iraq might make and one day use against U.S. soldiers.

According to documents obtained by ABCNEWS, the U.S. scientists have been making a powdered aerosol form of anthrax, and also have the unique strain of the bacteria found in deadly letters sent to two U.S. senators.

One of the few to be told of the classified program, the chairman of a House subcommittee on national security, said the research is very important.

"The program's been going on a number of years, thank God," said Rep. Christopher Shays, R-Conn. "I mean, the purpose of the program is for us to know how to deal with an attack."

But the Army won't talk about the anthrax production, and has not shared what it learned with civilian authorities.

The Army says all of the anthrax it has made since l997 is accounted for. But what the FBI is really looking for is one of the 200 or so U.S. scientists who have been secretly making anthrax — looking for the one who may have used the bacteria to wreak havoc.

I'm going to do a search for all legislation co-sponsored by Daschle and Leahy, if there is any.

I don't hold out much hope for this scientist being a Democrat.

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