[TrebleRebel]

This doesn’t sound like a guy who had ever seen weaponized anthrax before - never mind filled an envelope with it:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93305949

For now they, Ivins’ family and his co-workers are left wondering and in some cases replaying the past. Ellen Byrne, a wife of one of his colleagues, remembers talking to Ivins at a party. It was just after the anthrax had been sent through the mail. She said he told her he was fascinated by how perfect the powder is. “He was sitting there,” Byrne said. “He was leaning over the table and I was on the other side of the table. And he leaned forward and was just really excited at how finely milled the powder was.”She said Ivins gestured with his hands like he was trying to weigh it on a scale. He had long fingers, big knuckles.Ivins excitedly told Byrne: “It couldn’t even be weighed — it just hovered,” Byrne remembers Ivins saying. “That was the word he used — ‘hovered.’ “

[Shermy]

Apparently he’s seen “pure” anthrax before - and that wasn’t what “hovered” I presume.

there’s something really bad going on I feel. When I read yesterday the articles that seem to say the new tests was not done the actual anthrax dust but derived from anthrax in Stevens’ blood, that reraised red flags that the argument you have on those long threads is worthwhile. :)

[Shermy]

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93313767&ft=1&f=1001

From NPR-

"Ivins also had access to a sophisticated freeze-dryer, which could have been used to turn the wet bacteria into a dry form. Ivins' co-worker Jeff Adamovicz says he remembers the unit, called a lyopholizer, in the hallway and says it was used to dry protein samples for vaccine work. Adamovicz said the dryer was signed out to Ivins. Adamovicz remembers FBI agents testing the dryer, but they never hauled it away, a sign it most likely came up clean. An additional piece of equipment would also have been required to mill the dried spores into a powdered form.

"An additional piece of equipment." If they had Ivins on it, the FBI would have leaked it. Looks like the "made the stuff himself" story from today is fading by quitin' time.