Last week there was another article in the news pointing out that few of those working with him thought he was guilty, because his area of expertise didn’t include grinding up the spores and adding silicon to make them weapons grade.
So I guess this is another hit job to insist he was guilty.
He had access to a common form of anthrax, not the super resistant strain, but the common strain used to make vaccines (which is why Saddam Hussein’s scientists also had the strain).
But you can find anthrax all over, but “weaponizing” it means to get it small enough to enter the lung without killing yourself. That takes some expertise.
I myself wonder how he could have gotten hired if he was this crazy...but his crazyness doesn’t seem to make sense here...it would take a bit of time to pull this stunt, which came too soon after 911, and of course there was the anthrax to the National Enquirer and maybe skin anthrax on one of the friends of some terrorists in Florida.
“I myself wonder how he could have gotten hired if he was this crazy...but his crazyness doesn’t seem to make sense here...it would take a bit of time to pull this stunt, which came too soon after 911, and of course there was the anthrax to the National Enquirer and maybe skin anthrax on one of the friends of some terrorists in Florida.”
The most dangerous crazies are the ones that are not obvious. The other thing that is often not realized is that when people leave microbiology labs, their cultures and samples are left behind. Its possible that Ivins didnt need to make the spores, that they were left behind by someone who retired long ago and found their way to his possession. Its unlikely with dangerous material like this but sloppy bookkeeping or lax administration is certainly possible.