When thy God and thy Government forsake thee ... SUE THE BASTARDS!

Ninth Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness
http://atheism.about.com/lr/ninth_commandment/283958/2/

The Ninth Commandment reads:
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
(Exodus 20:16)

Leaving off the ending, “against thy neighbor” isn’t necessarily a
problem, but it does avoid difficult questions about just who
qualifies as one’s “neighbor” and who doesn’t. One might, for example,
plausibly argue that only one’s kinsmen, co-religionists, or fellow
countrymen qualify as “neighbors,” thus justifying “bearing false
witness” against non-relatives, people of a different religion, people
of a different nation, or people of a different ethnicity. ...

====================================

ATTENTION FBI:  When all else fails, try science.

ATTENTION SCIENTISTS:  When all else fails, SUE THE BASTARDS!

Scientists Slam FBI Anthrax Probe
http://www.military.com/news/article/scientists-slam-fbi-anthrax-probe.html?col8603231081
0
November 03, 2008
New York Post

It was an open-and-shut case, the FBI said.

But three months after agents pinned the post-9/11 anthrax mailings on
Army scientist Bruce Ivins - who committed suicide as the FBI closed
in on him - his former colleagues have approached a lawyer to sue the
feds for fingering the wrong man, The Post has learned.

They argue that the FBI abused its power and violated its own policies
as they probed an innocent man for six months.

One of Ivins' former colleagues was being aggressively pressured to
confess to the crimes just two months before Ivins killed himself on
July 29, he told The Post. And he identified at least one other
employee who was under the same pressure.

The move by the Army scientists comes on the heels of a Senate
Judiciary Committee demand for an independent review of the case
following a hearing with FBI Director Robert Mueller in which
committee members called the bureau's case an "open matter." The
bureau has named a panel of independent scientists to review the
evidence against Ivins - a probe that will take six to 18 months.

Sen. Patrick Leahy, a target of the 2001 anthrax attacks, said at the
Judiciary Committee hearings that he doubted Ivins, who worked at Fort
Detrick, Md., could have acted alone and that he believes "there are
others who could be charged with murder."

Anthrax-laced letters were also mailed to then-Sen. Tom Daschle and
news media outlets, including The Post.

"The people at Fort Detrick would love to see some suit brought, some
way of reckoning, adjudicating this," said Ivins' Maryland-based
lawyer, Paul Kemp. The Pentagon had refused a request to allow Ivins'
colleagues to speak to Kemp.

The case the feds presented rested mainly on these FBI claims:

* The dry anthrax used in the mailings shared key genetic variables
unique to a wet anthrax strain created by Ivins in his lab at Fort
Detrick.

* Ivins logged an increasingly large amount of after-hours overtime in
his lab in the weeks leading up to the anthrax mailings.

* Ivins submitted false samples of anthrax from his lab to the FBI for
forensic analysis in order to mislead investigators.

* Ivins was psychologically troubled and told co-workers that he had
"incredible paranoid, delusional thoughts at times" and that he feared
he might not be able to control his behavior. They cited his
preoccupation with the sorority Kappa Kappa Gamma - which included
altering its Wikipedia page, e-mailing former members and spreading
Internet chatter about the sorority - as indications of an unstable
and obsessive mind.

In interviews with a dozen of Ivins' colleagues at the US Army Medical
Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) at Fort Detrick,
his friends and independent scientists, The Post found many of them
would speak only on the condition of anonymity because they believed
they were still under FBI surveillance and their phones were being
tapped.

Together, those closest to Ivins cited a laundry list of holes in the
feds' conclusions. They include:

1) Ivins could not have made dry anthrax spores in his lab without
sickening people.

To convert the wet anthrax strain he had developed at Fort Detrick -
the only strain he worked with - into dry anthrax, which can be
inhaled and is much more lethal, Ivins would have had to use a
lyophilizer, a freeze-drying machine that is able to dry large
quantities of liquid.

Ivins' colleagues say they never saw the scientist working with dry
spores - in fact, dry anthrax was not made at USAMRIID - until he was
asked to examine the anthrax-laced letter sent to Daschle.

The lyophilizer, located in a hallway surrounded by four labs, did not
have a protective hood. A hood is necessary to circulate and filter
air and make it possible to use the lyophilizer to work with harmful
bacteria without the bacteria becoming airborne. Co-workers say the
hoodless lyophilizer would have spewed poisonous aerosols, infecting
co-workers. But no colleagues of Ivins experienced any symptoms.

Co-workers also point out that the machine would have to be fully
decontaminated after use - a 24-hour process called paraformaldehyde
decontamination that involves locking down the lab.

Without a full decontamination, the machine would have contaminated
other bacteria or liquids used on the machine at a later date. And if
it had not been decontaminated, the FBI should have been able to find
traces of the dry anthrax on the machine. Yet they swabbed Ivins'
machinery numerous times and were unable to find traces of dry anthrax
spores in his lab, Kemp said.

2) Records show that Ivins logged an average of only two hours of
overtime in the weeks leading up to the attacks - and even at those
times, he could not have gone undetected.

Even if Ivins did have access to a freeze-drying machine and a
protective hood, sources who worked closely with Ivins estimate it
would take a minimum of 40 days of continuous work without detection
to create the volume of spores used in the attacks.

"If he was working eight hours a day on spore prep every day, it would
be noticed," said Gerry Andrews, Ivins' supervisor between 2000 and
2003. "It's ridiculous."

Ivins' lab - just 200 square feet - was in "highly trafficked areas,
and Bruce had colleagues that worked with him every day," Andrews
said.

Meanwhile, in September and October of 2001, Ivins was involved in 19
research projects, including working on the Department of
Defense-funded anthrax vaccine that is now in clinical trials, anthrax
vaccine testing on rabbits and monkeys, and an outside project with a
government-contracted lab, the Battelle Memorial Institute in Ohio.

3) The FBI called Ivins the "sole custodian" of the strain of anthrax
used in the mailings. But at least 200 people had access to the strain
created by Ivins at Fort Detrick.

More than 100 people had access to Ivins' lab at USAMRIID. Ivins'
anthrax strain, RMR-1029, was kept there as well as stored at a nearby
building between 1997 and 1999, a building to which others had access.
In addition, multiple facilities outside of Fort Detrick were sent
RMR-1029 for their own research, including government laboratories,
the Battelle lab and academic institutions like the University of New
Mexico.

In September, FBI Director Mueller conceded other labs and scientists
had access to Ivins' anthrax, but would not disclose how the bureau
had ruled out other suspects.

4) The FBI has not released any physical evidence linking Ivins to the
attacks or defined a motive.

After obtaining three warrants to search the Ivins home starting in
October 2007, the FBI never found a single anthrax spore there -
though scientists say the kind of airborne anthrax used in the
mailings would have clung to any objects it came in contact with.

Nor were they able to place Ivins near the Princeton, NJ, mailbox from
which all the lethal anthrax letters were mailed - though they noted
that a Kappa Kappa Gamma chapter kept its rush materials, initiation
robes and other property 100 yards from where the anthrax letters were
sent.

Ivins passed two polygraph tests - one administered after the attacks
and another when he became a suspect, according to his lawyer. He also
submitted a writing sample that, Kemp said, did not implicate him.

Co-workers said Ivins stood to gain only $2,000 for a patent and
minimal royalties from drug companies for the vaccine he helped
produce.

"There is not one substantial motive," Andrews said.

In 2003, USAMRIID implemented a Personnel Reliability Program, with
employees undergoing psychiatric evaluations, financial background
checks and full medical exams. If Ivins had psychological issues, the
Army never flagged them - and instead deemed him capable of working
with biological weapons.

5) The FBI investigation was filled with inconsistencies and bordered
on harassment.

The FBI claims Ivins was a suspect since early 2007, but they waited
until July 23, 2008, to gather DNA evidence from him, delayed
examining records showing Ivins' late nights spent in the lab, and
waited years to swab the mailbox in Princeton.

They also allowed Ivins to have full access to the anthrax labs until
November 2007.

Scientists at USAMRIID said the FBI was aggressively pursuing other
suspects two months before Ivins killed himself.

In April 2007, the FBI sent Ivins a letter saying he was "not a target
of the investigation" and said it was investigating 42 people who had
access to RMR-1029 at the Battelle labs in Ohio, Kemp said.

Once they identified him as a suspect, the FBI investigators
conspicuously tailed Ivins for six months before he killed himself,
two neighbors of Ivins told The Post. They sat outside his house in
their cars and rented the house next door for stakeouts.

After three months under surveillance, Ivins hired a lawyer, Kemp, to
whom he complained that agents had approached his adopted twins,
Amanda and Andy, both 24. Ivins said they offered Andy $2.5 million
and a sports car for information on his father, friends confirm.

To Amanda, they showed pictures of anthrax victims and said, "Look at
what your father did," according to Kemp. The FBI denied this.

Friends said agents took Ivins' wife, Diane, and the children to
hotels where they grilled them for hours.

"Most people in Fort Detrick believe that [the FBI was] just going
after the weakest link," said Dr. W. Russell Byrne, Ivins' supervisor
between 1998 and 2000. "It looked like an organized effort in
intimidation."

Co-workers of Ivins' were warned by USAMRIID officials not to speak
with Ivins in his office, and he was told that he couldn't participate
in work activities or parties. His friends say it was the last straw
for a man who relied on work for his social life.

Since the investigation against Ivins began, workers at USAMRIID have
been forced to sign confidentiality agreements.

FBI spokeswoman Debbie Weierman said: "The FBI is still handling
administrative business and closing the loop on outstanding issues.
Therefore, the investigation is still pending. However, the case has
been solved; as the FBI and the Department of Justice have stated
publicly.

"The FBI is absolutely positive that Dr. Bruce Ivins and only Dr.
Bruce Ivins was responsible for the anthrax mailings."

© Copyright 2008 New York Post. All rights reserved. This material may
not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Anthraxgate

Do you wonder sometimes how a man can endure
Knowing that he's a provocateur?
Like Robert Mueller leaks to a media shill
Who ruined the Professor, Steven Hatfill
But among the cases one might consider a curse
Agents labor at one that is probably worse
Harassing anyone they think it might be
And convicting Dr. Ivins for his poetry
Should the agents confess, they'd be roundly hated
By all those they lied to and manipulated
But somehow they cope with their private disgrace
Of frame-up artists on the Amerithrax case


Citizen's Arrest!

There once was a terrorist named Zack
Who committed the anthrax attack
Though the Bureau Boys balked
This citizen can stalk
The Hebrew protected by AIPAC


Untouchables

It's going to take an Elliot Ness
To clean up this stinking FBI mess
[ Auf dieses Posting antworten ]