On his second or third visit, the counselor said, "he got bizarre." Ivins talked of a young woman living somewhere in the Northeast and said he planned to drive to watch her play in a soccer game. "I think he was infatuated or thinking about getting involved," recalled the counselor, who no longer lives in Maryland and does not have access to the detailed notes she made in her sessions with Ivins. ...
... When Ivins returned the following week, he told her he had attended the soccer game anyway. That day, she said, he told her about the poison he had made but said he had not used it because the woman's team had won. She recalled that he also said he had grudges against several people from his past who he said deserved to be punished and that he knew how to find out where anyone lived. ...
Now we know the basis for some of testimony Jean Duley provided.
Of course, this witness isn't named and can never be cross-examined about these incidents.Their last session did not last the full hour. By then the counselor had alerted people that she believed Ivins was homicidal.
So we have Ivins deemed to be homicidal by an unnamed mental health worker who "alerted people" in the year 2000. Yet he kept is job at Ft. Detrick, and was not considered a major suspect of FBI investigators until 2007.
Next we have the business about the Kappa Kappa Gamma (KKG) sorority, and the doctor's obsession with it. According to the Washington Post:
The former graduate student, Nancy L. Haigwood, was studying microbiology at Chapel Hill in the mid-1970s when Ivins, who was doing post-doctoral work there, took an obsessive interest in her sorority, Kappa Kappa Gamma. According to Haigwood, now the director of the Oregon National Primate Research Center in Portland, Ivins's "intrusive" questions made her uncomfortable, but his curiosity did not end when they both left North Carolina.
In 1982, Ms. Haigwood suspected Ivins of KKG-related vandalism, and thinks he wrote a KKG-related letter to the Frederick News-Post in her name. Continuing:
So we have authorities alerted to homicidal behavior in 2000, and we have the FBI alerted to Ivin's general nuttiness in 2002.Ivins's behavior prompted Haigwood to contact the FBI in 2002 after the American Society for Microbiology circulated a note saying that the person responsible for the anthrax attacks was probably a microbiologist and asking members to report any tips.
This was around the time, in August of 2002, Steven Hatfill was denying that he had ever been to Princeton, New Jersey, as the FBI was claiming. It was August 9, 2002, ten months after the anthrax attacks, that the "mail collection box" so near the Kappa Kappa Gamma office was discovered to have anthrax. From CNN on August 14, 2002:
Last Thursday, a mail collection box in the downtown area preliminarily tested positive for anthrax. Further tests have confirmed that the box was indeed contaminated with the deadly bacteria, and investigators told CNN Wednesday that some of the anthrax-laced letters were likely mailed at the box.
The Chicago Tribune quotes Congressman Rush Holt, a physicist whose district is home to the contaminated Princeton mailbox:
...When contamination at a New Jersey postal processing center indicated that the letters had been mailed on one of a limited number of routes, it took investigators seven months to test several hundred mailboxes and identify the source."Within two days they could have dispatched 50 people to wipe all those mailboxes," Holt said.
So the mailbox at the heart of the Ivins-Kappa angle wasn't even tested for anthrax until ten months after the attacks, with a likelihood that some of the letters were mailed from that box.
The Associated Press reports that in 2002:
then in December, 2003, more than a year later:February: Ivins does not follow protocol in anthrax samples he submits to the FBI, rendering them unusable.
April: Ivins provides a second set of samples for genetic testing. Both samples were found to have no presence of the anthrax used in the attacks.
Dec. 12: An FBI special agent accompanies Ivins to the lab and identifies samples that had not been submitted.
and in 2004:
The Washington Post has a similar story:April 7: An FBI special agent seizes additional samples from Ivins' lab.
June 17: One of the samples taken from the Fort Detrick lab tests positive for the four genetic markers common to the anthrax in the attacks.
In April 2002, Ivins, as custodian of RMR-1029, was asked by FBI investigators to provide a sample that could be compared with the anthrax used in the attacks. He submitted a sample that did not match. It was not until after the FBI accompanied Ivins into B3 and seized the RMR-1029 flask in April 2004 that the bureau was able to match RMR-1029 with the strain in the letters. The correct sample of RMR-1029 was sent out for testing on June 17, 2004.So we're up to 2004 now, most of the reasons that the FBI is citing as proof of Dr. Ivins's guilt have already supposedly happened and been reported, yet the FBI still takes no interest, and Dr. Ivins continues to enjoy all of the privileges of working in a bio-defense laboratory.





