With all the advances in DNA research, its getting really difficult to get away with breaking the law... this is pretty cool.

Did I really write DNS? Yes, a Domain Name Service lead to the suspect...

DNA... whatever...

...a Domain Name Service lead to the suspect...

That's why I checked this thread -- I thought it was about internet surveillance. :-)

This is the part that bothers me:

Dozens of other researchers in Ivins' lab also had access to the type of Ames strain used in the attacks, the scientist said, meaning the DNA alone is not enough to prove his guilt.

More accurately, it's disturbing that his history of mental health issues was all over the air waves while the circumstantial nature of the evidence against him is being played down.

Dozens of other researchers in Ivins' lab also had access to the type of Ames strain used in the attacks, the scientist said, meaning the DNA alone is not enough to prove his guilt.

Yeah, but he was the nutbar in therapy sessions making threats against his coworkers...

If I were in his position and innocent my first thought would be fear that I'd been accused, but then I would remember "I'm innocent," and then would get really happy because soon I would be a multi millionaire.

DNA? You mean that stuff that liberals say proves a link between humans and monkeys? Has anyone here ever even seen this so called "DNA"?

What a stroke of luck for the scientific community. Because the defendant is dead, the FBI can point to the DNA evidence and let that sink into the publics mind without a defense attorney muddying the waters during a future jury trial. Timing is everything, eh OJ?

Rob:

Hatfill said the investigation and labeling him as person of interest-- in the case ruined his reputation. He lost his job, and was in the attention of the media, his home was searched and his conversations were tapped.

Take his legal bills defending himself and the lawyers' share of the settlement and he probably could have earned the same amount without being slimed.

Threats against his co-workers?

I suppose he shared a cubicle with Tom Daschle?
That's weak at best-but-IF he's guilty-fry him!

Rob: The settlement grants Hatfill $2.8 million in immediate payment, and an $150,000 annuity as of 2009 for the next 20 years.

Not worth it IMHO.

Has anyone here ever even seen this so called "DNA"?

Oh boy.

"Oh boy."

Man! Is sarcasm that hard to convey in writing? But really, have you ever heard of photoshop? Have you ever snopped this "DNA"? And just because its on the internet, does that make it true?

The DNA of anthrax is apparently traceable.

If a lab has anthrax--the authorities can trace the same to the original source.

They know --at least in the US-- where the anthrax came from.

They knew this was not someone's garage--they believed it was state owned anthrax--our own.

Why would this guy put all the BS letters about Death to Israel and Death to the US?

Was this an attempt to throw the authorities off the track??

And he did admit to authorities that he spilled some stuff on the lab table and cleaned it up without notifying the higher ups.

This was 2001 sometime..

The part that quered the interest was that the guy did not do a second clean up --that is apparently a no-no. He knows the procedures ot clean it up.

If this is the guy--suicide --although it points to guilt--leaves many unanswered questions.

Who was he working for--if anyone?

Why the deflection of the Praise to Allah BS? Why go after the FL newspaper and the Congress?

Why was the stuff found in what news organization??

"DNA from the bodies of 2001 anthrax victims led investigators to researcher Bruce Ivins, an unnamed government scientist told AP."

YEAH!

As always --- the "Government Can't Get Anything Right" Fake Plastic Sons of Bitchs seem so Eager to Make Sure You think this Government Got This Right!

I'm not usually a government conspiracy theorist, but this story gets weirder and weirder. Apparently one of the puzzles was why the anthrax samples were sent from a mailbox in Princeton, 200 miles away from Ivins, and the gov't concedes that it can't put him there the day they were mailed.

Redneck, who are you going to vote for in the upcoming election?

At this point, I'm a lot more worried about the twisted minds of the FBI types who came up with this story than I am worried about the anthrax mailer.

Don't worry, your government will never do anything to hurt you. Furthermore, they never manufacture terror attacks...except the Miami Sears Tower terrorists and the first WTC bombing (off the top of my head). But other than that, they're really great people.