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With reporting by Bruce Crumley and Jeff Israely/Paris and Amanda Ripley/Washington
While the FBI waits to formally release its evidence against Bruce E. Ivins, the microbiologist it claims to have linked to the anthrax mailings seven years ago, who killed himself on July 29, the public is getting a sneak peek - by way of federal leaks to the media. The leaks are piling up almost too fast to keep track of. Some seem damning, others perplexing, but the pause is creating a strange void - in which leaks are followed by rebuttals from Ivins' colleagues and his attorney (who steadfastly denies that his client had any role in the attacks) and then...
...Bruce E. Ivins, a respected government microbiologist, died of an apparent suicide on July 29, 2008, in a hospital in his hometown of Frederick, Md. Just before his death, federal authorities told his lawyer they were preparing to file criminal charges against him in connection to the 2001 anthrax attacks, according to the Los Angeles Times, which originally broke the story...
...know that Bruce Ivins had a history of hiding relatively minor anthrax-related security breaches from his supervisors. He also was well positioned to access anthrax, and his lab benefited enormously in money and resources from the fallout of the anthrax attacks. Along with other scientists, he was listed as a co-inventor on two patents for an anthrax vaccine, and he could have stood to gain financially from the rise in vaccinations that followed the anthrax attacks. Days before his death, he was accused by a counselor of making violent threats...
...harassment. He was receiving psychotherapy in the weeks before his death and was banned from the premises of his research lab. Yesterday, a spokesperson for Ivins' lab, the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, at Fort Detrick in Frederick, said the agency "mourns the loss of Dr. Bruce Ivins, who served the institute for more than 35 years as a civilian microbiologist." That seems an unusual thing to say if you believe one of your employees had something to do with an anthrax attack...