Archive for August 3rd, 2008

Vital unresolved anthrax questions and ABC News

This is a must read article by Glenn Greenwald from Salon

The FBI’s lead suspect in the September, 2001 anthrax attacks — Bruce E. Ivins — died Tuesday night, apparently by suicide, just as the Justice Department was about to charge him with responsibility for the attacks. For the last 18 years, Ivins was a top [...]

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Anthrax Suspect Was Involuntarily Committed

Specifically, a month before his death according to documents obtained by the Smoking Gun. This story is going to be on Lifetime no doubt. Also a therapist  Jean Carol Duley from the Psychiatric Hospital where Ivins was committed filed a protective order against Ivins.
From a taped excerpt found here.

Duley: As far back as the year 2000, [...]

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State senator wants $262K grant returned

By William F. West : The [Henderson] Daily Dispatch
The Herald-Sun

BUTNER — State Sen. Doug Berger, who now opposes a germ-fighting lab at Butner, additionally wants one of the chief proponents of the project to give back more than $262,000 obtained from a nonprofit organization for a so-called informational campaign.Berger expressed his wishes in a letter [...]

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Anthrax Case: Has the unprecedented boom in biodefense research made us less safe?

Source: The New York Times
Anthrax Case Renews Questions on Bioterror Effort
 By ERIC LIPTON and SCOTT SHANE
WASHINGTON — Until the anthrax attacks of 2001, Bruce E. Ivins was one of just a few dozen American bioterrorism researchers working with the most lethal biological pathogens, almost all at high-security military laboratories.

Today, there are hundreds of such researchers [...]

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One Communities’ Response to Slenning

On WRAL they have an article which appears to be an interview with Barrett Slenning a member of the NCC- NBAF Consortium. The article, WRAL says was originally published in the BT Catalyst  which is publication  by the North Carolina Biotechnology Center. Slenning has roots in Granville County and through my email contact with him, he seems to be a good guy whether [...]

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