Website posts new anthrax documents

Posted on Thursday, September 25, 2008 12:16 PM ET
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A website run by a freelance journalist in California has posted what it calls "highly detailed U.S. government documents proving the whereabouts of now deceased Army microbiologist Bruce E. Ivins on the days the anthrax letters were mailed."

The two-page document is posted on the website for the Enterprise Report, written by journalist Eric Longabardi. Longabardi reports that the documents detail five "precise windows of opportunity that Ivins had to mail the letters, if he was the person who did so in 2001. These never before seen security records detail Ivin's time at the US Army’s USARMIID laboratory in Fort Detrick, Maryland on the days in question relative to the mailings of the anthrax letters."

The documents do not appear to challenge the FBI's assertion that Ivins had time to leave work, drive to Princeton, N.J., and then mail the deadly anthrax letters in a mailbox there.

The two pages of security-access documents reveal Ivin’s whereabouts at the Fort Detrick Army lab on September 17th and 18th and October 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th, 2001, the website said.

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So on 9/17, he was back at work from 7 p.m. to 7:13.   Mapquest says the trip to the mailbox at 10 Nassau St. in Princeton takes 3 1/2 hours.  So a 7 hour round trip would put him home at the earliest (if he didn't stop) at 2: 15 a.m. in the morning.

John Doe, Seattle, Wash. (Thursday, September 25, 2008 2:36 PM)

And yet, what of the courier mailing from Malaysia and the mail from Florida (and the leak at the Star?)  Did he walk to Florida?  Fly to Malaysia with Anthrax in his satchel?

John Doe 2, Seattle, Washington (Thursday, September 25, 2008 5:24 PM)

  John Doe must be Mr. Ivin's attorney.  Who else could come to this conclusion without all the facts presented.  "It's all a travesty."  "They've got the wrong man.", blah, blah, blah.  Even O.J.'s lawyers won't touch this one.  

Robert Alan, Kernville, CA (Thursday, September 25, 2008 5:41 PM)

Just like 9-11, the real "perpe-traitors" are being shielded.  the anthrax attacks were clearly done in order to hasten the passage of the so called "Patriot Act".  It is so clear and simple one needs to be near brain death not to see this. Bruce Ivins appears to be the latest in a string of scapegoats. Convenient that he is gone.

Eric V, Phoenix (Thursday, September 25, 2008 5:56 PM)

Funny how many microbiologists have been "suicided" over the last few years since 911.

Neoteric. Show Low,AZ (Thursday, September 25, 2008 9:04 PM)



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