I just wanted to get a short note out about the recent death of Scientist Bruce Ivins. He is the latest American scientist to be accused of the  Anthrax incidents involving Ton Daschle and the Washington Post. For those of you who have been hiding under a rock, or were too busy watching MTV, he killed himself while awaiting prosecution by the FBI.

The FBI claims that he acted alone in this dastardly deed. That he did in fact have the knowledge and expertise to create the Anthrax used in the attacks. If this is so then I would expect their investigation  to wrap up quickly and that documents will be published and the whole ordeal will be put to bed soon. My guess is that will not be the case.

My guess is that the case will be kept open. Investigators are not allowed to talk about current cases you see. Closed cases can be revealed with the freedom of information act. Even pertinent facts get put on the clock once the case is close. Nope, this case won’t close till its reached a ripe old age.

There are too many pending questions for me. I suspect the FBI will use some of these same questions to hold the case open even though their last remaining “person of interest” is dead. Here is the short list of my most pressing questions…

1. How was the Anthrax milled with such precision to a 1.5 micron size? The lab that Ivins worked in did have the requisite drying equipment, shown in so many FBI photo ops, but no such mill.
2. It was leaked that the Anthrax spores had an unusual coating, perhaps a glazing coat bound to them. The equipment for this procedure is very limited when dealing with a such a fine powder, perhaps limited to a handful of government bio-labs. None available to Ivins.
3. Additionally the spores bore a weak negative electric charge to assist them in remaining airborne. While this is a signature of Soviet technology, where else is it available? None is known in the United States.

There are several other questions, holes in the prosecutions story regarding Bruce Ivins. Sure he had anxiety, he had an extremely stressful job. He also wrote the Senators, Congressman and the Media quite often. He even used a pen name from time to time, there is a lot of circumstantial evidence pointing to him.

This brings me to my point. If you were one of the bad guys and wanted to avoid blame, where would you try to point that blame? Toward one of the good guys, of course. And what if you were one of the bad guys and you had spent millions of dollars developing a weaponized version of Anthrax and you knew that one of the good guys (Bruce Ivins) was close to developing a vaccine for it? What better way to ensure the value of your efforts than to scare people into believing that one of the good guys was in fact, a bad guy. Viola! You ensure the value of your weaponized Anthrax by blaming an anthrax scare on one of the few men who can stop you from your final objective.

My guess is this. The FBI was totally blown away by the quality of product found in the Anthrax envelopes and absolutely freaked out. Of course they knew it wasn’t ours, we are way behind the curve on this specific technology. To admit so however is to admit the risk to our empire and that my friends, can be suicidal.