Ivins

Source: oldatlanticlighthouse.wordpress.com --- 4 days ago
Bruce Ivins et al applied for a patent in 2000 which was granted in 2002. This patent describes in detail the actual growing of anthrax by Bruce Ivins using the New Brunswick Bio-Flo 3000 that the FBI 302 report indicated was the fermentor at Ft. Detrick. The patent also describes use of the speed-vac. The patent gives a table with the yield in mg of anthracis using the 5 Liter fermentor after growth of several days. http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6387665.html “Fermentation conditions: The fermentations described here were carried out using a New Brunswick Bio-Flo 3000 equipped with a 5.0 liter working volume glass vessel and stainless steel headplate and hemispherical bottom cooling dish.” “EXAMPLE 1 B. Anthracis ΔSterne-1(pPA102)CR4 was compared with its parent spore-forming strain B. anthracis ΔSterne-1(pPA102). Both organisms were plated onto sheep blood agar (a preferred medium for promoting bacterial spore production) and grown at 37° C. for 1 day, after which the temperature was lowered to 25° C. for 4 days. The two strains were also grown in liquid Leighton-Doi medium, which is designed to promote spore production, for 1 day at 37° C. followed by 4 days growth at 25° C. Growth from both agar and broth cultures were examined under phase contrast microscopy for the presence of spores. Growth from all four cultures were then resuspended in phosphate buffered saline to a concentration of about 10 9 colony-forming units (CFU) p ...

Source: anthraxvaccine.blogspot.com --- 6 days ago
Jean Duley gave Anderson Cooper the scoop (watch the video!) on Bruce Ivins. Not to put too fine a point on it, but a few facts are in order. Ms Duley had an extensive police blotter. Her past charges included possessing narcotics paraphernalia, battery, and many DUIs. She was under charges at the time she swore out a peace order against Ivins, while accompanied by an FBI agent. Whether the FBI used the carrot or the stick to elicit a litany of Ivins' alleged confessed crimes from the mouth of Duley, and to variously put her in front of the TV cameras or hide her from the press, the fact remains she has been the only person to publicly allege Ivins tried to murder people previously. None of Ivins' psychiatrists, nor any of Duley's supervising mental health professionals, have said anything public about the case or supported any of Duley's allegations. Remember, Duley had only just received a Bachelors Degree when she was put in the position of counselling Ivins for substance abuse. She had neither the training nor experience to comment on Ivins' psychological pathologies. She was not licensed or qualified to do anything more than substance abuse work, and as someone who had failed her own recovery, was not even qualified for that. However, her prior two decade experience as a member of a biker gang and multisubstance abuser since age 10 may have given her ideas about bondage, etc. Ms. Duley is as pathetic a figure as Bruce Ivins. Her car ...

Source: music.alltop.com --- 6 days ago
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Source: qwstnevrythg.com --- 6 days ago
This is pretty convenient, after the guy is dead: The FBI has made public thousands of pages of police reports, emails and other files about Bruce Ivins, the alleged culprit of the 2001 anthrax mailings. The documents, as a whole, show a troubled man who battled strange obsessions, including secretly cross-dressing and obsessions with bondage, blindfolding and [...] ...

Source: www.disinfo.com --- 7 days ago
There has been a lot of skepticism about the FBI’s closure of the 2001 anthrax terror scare, led perhaps by Bob Coen & Eric Nadler, authors of Dead Silence: Fear and Terror on the Anthrax Trail . Now CNN is running a video questioning the state of Dr. Bruce Ivins’ mind, suggesting strongly that it was definitely Ivins who was behind the anthrax attacks. Is this is a case of the major media helping out the government? ...

Source: ac360.blogs.cnn.com --- 8 days ago
Joe Johns | BIO AC360° Correspondent Authorities believe a scientist who advised them on the 2001 anthrax attacks was responsible. His counselor agrees. Joe Johns has the full report tonight at 10 p.m. ET. ...

Source: www.cnn.com --- 8 days ago
Authorities believe a scientist who advised them on the 2001 anthrax attacks was responsible. His counselor agrees. ...

Source: www.fredericknewspost.com --- 8 days ago
Local police do not think suspected anthrax mailer Bruce Ivins was involved in any other unsolved criminal cases ...

Source: armchairgeneralist.typepad.com --- 11 days ago
The NY Time s has an editorial suggesting that the FBI could be wrong about Ivins and his mailing anthrax from Fort Detrick to various news outlets and to certain congressional persons. Now, it's okay to have one's doubts about the case, given that Ivins committed suicide prior to being tried in a court of law. But this reasoning is just a little ridiculous . The F.B.I.’s conclusion rests in large part on pioneering laboratory techniques that matched genetic mutations in the anthrax that was mailed with identical mutations in a batch of anthrax created and maintained by Dr. Ivins. ["Pioneering techniques," as in peer-reviewed scientific methodology using state-of-the-art equipment] The National Academy of Sciences will complete a review of that lab work in coming months. But the techniques were devised with the aid of some of the country’s most sophisticated scientists, so they are presumably reliable. [ Presumably ? It is the NAS, not Northern Virigina Community College. The FBI used DOD experts as well as independent scientists in their forensics investigation. It's pretty air-tight that the anthrax came from Fort Detrick. But let's not trust science and lab reports... And at the same time, let's not put our trust in the NAS, they just might confirm what the FBI said, and then we'd need a reason to say that they're not reliable either] More problematic is the investigative work that led the F.B.I. to conclude that only Dr. Ivins, ...

Source: covertoperations.blogspot.com --- 11 days ago
Federal Bureau of Invention? Microbiologist Meryl Nass Responds to FBI Closing Anthrax Case ...

Source: www.fredericknewspost.com --- 12 days ago
The government's eight-year investigation of the 2001 anthrax mailings started with Fort Detrick scientist Bruce Ivins helping the FBI analyze contaminated letters and ended with Ivins being named the sole culprit in the attacks ...

Source: oldatlanticlighthouse.wordpress.com --- 12 days ago
If you take the statement linked to by Dxer which is quoting from the FBI report D. Motive, you can see why Ivins would spend extra time in the lab in August through early October. http://www.webcommentary.com/php/ShowArticle.php?id=andersonm&date=100228 Note the anger in the linked statement by the service man forced to take anthrax shots in 1999 and which led to the FOIA requests in 2001. He feels physically violated. This is over 10 years after the shots. This was the anger on Ivins. These are reasons to go to the office and lab to try to think of a response. http://www.justice.gov/amerithrax/docs/amx-investigative-summary.pdf According to the FBI, Ivins was under intense pressure. He was under public criticism. The project was not going well the FBI says. He might have to work on something other than Anthrax. Ivins was an anthrax scientist in his own words. These are reasons to sit around the lab even if you are just trying to think of strategy. “1. Dr. Ivins�s life�s work appeared destined for failure, absent an unexpected event.” What do you do? What would Lombardi tell Ivins to do? Give up. Lombardi would tell Ivins to go to the lab and try to think of something. “Pressure on the project increased throughout the summer” So he had more reason to spend time in the lab trying to think of a Hail Mary play. “In addition, during the summer of 2001, Dr. Ivins was being considered by management at USAMRIID for a move to an entirely n ...

Source: norcaltruth.org --- 17 days ago
source: Washingtons Blog Feb 22, 2010 In a new post, vaccine expert Dr. Meryl Nass shreds the FBI’s case against Bruce Ivins: Federal Bureau of Invention: CASE CLOSED (and Ivins did it) But FBI’s report, documents and accompanying information (only pertaining to Ivins, not to the rest of the investigation) were released on Friday afternoon… which means the [...] ...

Source: georgewashington2.blogspot.com --- 18 days ago
In a new post, vaccine expert Dr. Meryl Nass shreds the FBI's case against Bruce Ivins: Federal Bureau of Invention: CASE CLOSED (and Ivins did it) But FBI's report, documents and accompanying information (only pertaining to Ivins, not to the rest of the investigation) were released on Friday afternoon... which means the FBI anticipated doubt and ridicule. And the National Academies of Science (NAS) is several months away from issuing its $879,550 report on the microbial forensics, suggesting a) asking NAS to investigate the FBI's science was just a charade to placate Congress, and/or b) NAS' investigation might be uncovering things the FBI would prefer to bury, so FBI decided to preempt the NAS panel's report. Indeed, both Lawrence Livermore National Labs and Sandia National Labs have already discredited the FBI's claims. Back to Nass's article: Here are today's reports from the Justice Department, AP, Washington Post and NY Times. The WaPo article ends, The FBI's handling of the investigation has been criticized by Ivins's colleagues and by independent analysts who have pointed out multiple gaps, including a lack of hair, fiber other physical evidence directly linking Ivins to the anthrax letters. [GW's note: Indeed, handwriting analysis failed to link Ivins to the anthrax letters] But despite long delays and false leads, Justice officials Friday expressed satisfaction with the outcome. The evidence "established that Dr. Ivins, al ...

Source: chrisshort.net --- 18 days ago
Amerithrax Investigation Ends: Ivins Acted Alone : On Friday, the Department of Justice ended its investigation of the 2001 Anthrax attack, which killed five, sickened 17, disrupted postal service, and caused the evacuation of a Senate building. In… ...

Source: topnews.us --- 19 days ago
Dr. Bruce Ivins, a US Army Scientist, who committed suicide in 2008, has been held responsible for mailing the anthrax-laced letters, which killed five people, sickened 17 others, jolted a nation reeling from the September 11 hijacked-plane attacks and resulted in one of the FBI's largest investigations ever. read more ...

Source: www.emaxhealth.com --- 19 days ago
A biologist in the US Army’s Fort Detrick biodefense lab, Dr. read more ...

Source: denver.fwix.com --- 19 days ago
Wrapping up one of its most vexing investigations, the FBI concluded that Army scientist Bruce Ivins acted alone in the 2001 anthrax mailings that killed five people and further unnerved a nation... Feb 20th, 2010, at 10:00pm GMT ...