Please put that in your timeline, and think on it. The anthrax scare was the pretext and context for the invasion of country number one Afghanistan, which was just a pretext to get to Iraq number 2, and finally to Iran number 3, which they are now working on.

I’m not finding any source online that confirms her getting the letter, though I seem to remember reading a few years ago the recollection of someone else who was at the Times then, recounting that she ran around telling people about it.

October 29, 2001: General John Parker mis-reports that silica found in anthrax sample

Gen. Parker did not misreport that, and the Chemical and Engineering News article doesn’t say he did. Silica was found in the anthrax sample.

What was misreported, by Ridge on Oct. 25th (and by named and unnamed sources in the press around that time), was that the spores were coated with silica, and/or that the spores were “weaponized” in the sense of having been coated with any additive to prevent clumping and encourage aerosolization.

Gen. Parker did not say or imply that. As he’s the most definitive debunker of the bentonite claim, and one of the most careful government spokespeople at the time, I’d hate to see him immortalized in the timeline as having led anyone astray.

See my comment here for an excerpt of his statement on the 29th and a link to the transcript.

October 28, 2001: ABC News cites “four well-placed government officials” with bentonite claim

I agree with ericbrewer also that it’s an unjustified leap, on the basis of an unauthenticated email from Brian Ross to an unnamed reader of Glenn’s, to say even today that “ABC news cites Ft. Detrick scientists” — much less to convey what was known at the time, which is the convention in a timeline.

“ABC News” hasn’t cited anything beyond the original story.
We’re not absolutely sure that Brian Ross has cited anything beyond what the story says until he authenticates the email.
Even if the Ross email is genuine (likely), “current and former government scientists” definitely does not equal “Ft. Detrick scientists”.

G. Greenwald:

Relating to ABC, a reader exchanged emails with Brian Ross this weekend, and Ross wrote this (the email was sent from Ross’ ABC address; yesterday, I emailed both him and ABC’s Jeffrey Schneider to request confirmation of its authenticity, and they didn’t reply):

As we reported more than six years ago our information came from current and former government scientists. The report was discointed [sic] and denied by the White House which we reported. I believe now the scientists got it wrong although they insisted they were correct long after.

Actually, this is the first time, to my knowledge, that Ross has ever acknowledged that his sources for the bentonite story were “current and former government scientists.”

some screen writer has GOT to make this into a scene:

from u.s. v. rosen

[…If nothing else can be salvaged from this case, testimony concerning Clyde deserves to be perpetuated. After the dog handler described Clyde’s experience and skill this ensued:

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MR. MC ABEE (prosecutor): Your Honor, at this time, I would like to submit to the Court that the testimony concerning Clyde, the bloodhound, entitles him to be considered as an expert in this case. And that the testimony of Mr. Powell concerning Clyde will be used in that light.

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MR. ENTIN (defense counsel): Your Honor, I would have to object. I think I ought to have the opportunity to confront and cross examine Clyde.

NOTE: (BRIEF COLLOQUY.)

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MR. ENTIN: Your Honor, I think that the witness can testify as to what Clyde did, as to making him an expert in terms of putting him into the mind of an animal, I don’t think we can do that. I think he can testify that he took the dog and the dog led him somewhere, but as to anything else, I really don’t think that that makes him an expert.

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THE COURT: The dog or the man?

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MR. ENTIN: The dog was an expert, but the man was only carrying his leash. It’s an unusual situation.

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THE COURT: Well, I think if you give a full background of the dog’s training and the dog’s ability to smell . . .

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MR. MC ABEE: . . . It has happened in the state of Georgia on several occasions where a bloodhound such as Clyde have (sic) been qualified in State Court, sir.

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MR. ENTIN: Your Honor, I’m not saying we can’t qualify the dog, we can’t qualify the witness.

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MR. MC ABEE: Well, in this particular instance, Your Honor, it’s unlikely, Clyde has since died, I believe, so we don’t have Clyde to bring in before the Court.

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THE COURT: I’ll let him testify.

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MR. ENTIN: What about the application of the dead man’s rule?

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THE COURT: We don’t have communication between a dead dog so I’m going to let it in.

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Though successful in this appeal, counsel for appellant undoubtedly will always regret that in this colloquy, now enshrined in the official reports, he overlooked the confrontation clause of the Constitution.

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The conviction is REVERSED with directions to enter a judgment of acquittal…]

– confront and cross-examine a blood hound

– confront and cross examine a dead blood hound (seance leader with special training required; i bet the fbi knows just where to find such an expert witness.)

I don’t know.

But as a recent graduate she found herself counseling and running a group which included Bruce Ivins. I doubt she sought this out for herself.

I very much want to understand who assigned this to her and how the FBI became involved with her. How did she come into the possession of those facts stated in the Peace Order?

http://www.fredericknewspost.c…..ryID=76901

Under her picture is this caption:
Jean Duly, BSW, CSC-AD, displays a bottle of the addiction treatment drug Suboxone at Comprehensive Counseling Associates.

Here are a few quotes from this article:

Forty people died of drug overdoses in Frederick County in 2005 and 2006, and just four were deemed intentional suicides, according to autopsy reports reviewed by The Frederick News-Post at the Maryland Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.

The number of accidental drug overdose deaths in the United States rose from 11,155 in 1999 to 22,400 in 2005, according to Leonard J. Paulozzi of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who testified to Congress about the growing problem this spring.

And some of the main culprits may be in your own medicine cabinet..

Narcotic painkillers contributed to 25 of the deaths of Frederick County residents who died in 2005 and 2006.

Since the number of people dying of prescription drug overdoses is growing, their demographics are changing as well. Men are still more likely to die from drug overdoses than women, but now people in their 40s are more likely than those in their 20s or 30s to die of an overdose, Paulozzi said. Whites are now more likely to die from overdoses than blacks, and more overdoses are occurring in rural counties than in cities.
Twenty-seven of the Frederick County residents who died of overdoses in 2005 and 2006 were men, 33 were white, and 25 were older than 35.

Paulozzi testified that the CDC’s statistics “probably underestimate the present magnitude of the problem.”

Eleven of the overdoses in 2005 and 2006 in Frederick County involved alcohol, either as the main cause or a contributing factor.

snip

I included the information about alcohol because I have read an article depicting a friend of Ivins saying that he had committed himself to helping his friend with his addiction to alcohol. I believe it states that Ivins was drinking increasing amounts of vodka. If someone else hasn’t produced the article yet, I will find it and bring it over.

This article foreshadows the events and presents interesting statistics.

You went into jail in the summer. It is fall now. You will have stories to cover–Iraqi elections and suicide bombers, biological threats and the Iranian nuclear program. Out West, where you vacation, the aspens will already be turning. They turn in clusters, because their roots connect them. Come back to work–and life.

Iraqi elections and suicide bombers, biological threats and the Iranian nuclear program

Is he making a series of predictions, or is he just laying out their plans?