For 35 years, Ivins was one of the government’s leading scientists researching vaccines and cures for anthrax exposure. But he also had a long history of homicidal threats, according to papers filed last week in a Maryland court by a social worker. [dubious source] Ivins’ friends, colleagues and court documents paint a picture of a flourishing scientist with an emotionally unstable side. [Notice "friends & colleagues" merged with social worker as one chorus in unison pressing the unstable charge.] Maryland court documents show he recently received psychiatric treatment [seeing a therapist means one is crazy? or seeing a therapist means one seeks advice in coping with extraordinary stress from being a suspect pressed by the FBI and entire federal powers to submit to their oncoming charge of guilt] and was ordered to stay away from a woman he was accused of stalking and threatening to kill. [Perhaps true, or perhaps staged to incriminate him. The woman's history is not revealed, nor any evidence validating the assertion she makes.] Social worker Jean C. Duley filed handwritten court documents last week saying she was preparing to testify before a grand jury. She said Ivins would be charged with five capital murders. [Following the El Dorado fiasco, how much water does a social worker with an agenda carry?]

“Client has a history dating to his graduate days of homicidal threats, plans and actions towards therapists,” Duley said, adding that his psychiatrist had described him as homicidal and sociopathic. [What ever happened to doctor/patient confidentiality? And if that were true, then how did Ivins get clearance and such extremely high Pentagon responsibilities in the first place? It seems as likely that these stories are being fabricated after the fact in order to smear. State specifics so that the evidence can be investigated properly.]

Patchwork cover-up quilt fabricated by (AP) MATT APUZZO and LARA JAKES JORDAN, David Dishneau and Chrissie Thompson from Frederick, Md., researchers Susan James and Jennifer Farrar in New York.

Either version would make good cinema.

What a shame.

“The Justice Department has not yet decided whether to close the investigation” following the reported suicide of 62 year old Bruce E. Ivins, awarded the 2003 Decoration for Exceptional Civilian Service, the top Pentagon Army microbiologist developing an anthrax vaccine. Ivins had not even been indicted yet for the 2001 USPS anthrax attacks, though his name had been given to the press as the suspect.

I just don’t like those “suicide conclusions” to government scandals, espeacially NOT before indictment and trial. It’s even worse just prior to Bush’s end of office and a new election. The truth was never established, and is now only hidden via “suicide” of a suspect presumed innocent prior to exposition of material data in a trial. I don’t know Ivins, nor do I know the case other than reading blurps in the MSM. I do know what stinks, however.

Suicide is bad enough when it is strictly a private issue. Once the public welfare is involved, it’s no longer acceptable at face value as any sort of conclusion to an investigation. No telling what when dead men and secrets get buried. The anthrax case gets conveniently swept under the rug before the next POTUS election though Ivins is supposedly presumed innocent until proven guilty. Yet depriving him of the opportunity to defend himself certainly covers whoever else was involved. Whether Ivins is alive or dead, whoever instigated the anthrax attacks gets off free given a “closed case” decision to come on the investigation that proved nothing to date.

Ivins’ death reeks more of conspiracy than personal desparation. A grown man could bear the pressure of a trial unless he was not stable enough to hold the position that gained him the highest recognition for his work. As he did meet that requirement, he could have mentally withstood a trial unless he knew his guilt was exposed; that would have made the news already, so that is not an explanation. That leaves “suicide” as the result of seeing the cards stacked against him by those with the power to prosecute; abusive government prosecutors are too well known today to dismiss out of hand. The final and obvious alternative is that is was not suicide but assassination by the guilty to silence Ivins and protect their anonymity.

The “attacks” occured in 2001. In 2003 he is awarded the highest civilian Pentagon decoration. As no one can figure out the 2001 explanation, he gets fingered being the closest suspect available to the anthrax. Yet NO indictment occurs. Instead, he suffers assassination of character prior to his death. Suicides don’t happen so easily as assassinations do.

just saying