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[jkling]

Science Now has an interesting story about the genetic evidence that the FBI used to implicate Bruce Ivens in the anthrax attacks.

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[mayakda]

Ivens was the one with the convenient suicide, right?

[jkling]

That's him.

[cathydalek]

My biggest problems with the FBI case are (a) they still haven't put him anywhere near Princeton, NJ and (b) based on other articles i've read, they still haven't eliminated everyone else in the lab where Ivins worked. Also, unlike Hatfill (the one the DOJ was certain did it until they paid him 5 million dollars by way of apology), Ivins has a large number of co-workers declaring him unlikely to have done done it and another viable reason for his suicide is the fact that he was already mentally ill and given that the wrongfully targeted Hatfill's life is still in the toilet, someone with the close community ties that Ivins had may have felt the humiliation however wrongful wasmore than he could bear.

[farmgirl1146]

I no longer trust the FBI in this and other things. Hatfill was just one in a long-line of botched investigations. Remember the Atlanta Summer Olympics bombing -- they accused the security guard who was an early responder. Ivens sounds like a very distressed person, and whether he was mentally ill or not, for one moment, killing himself seemed like the best idea and he did it.