A frontpage diary (hat tip to JeremyA)with over four hundred comments is already posted today on the WSJ op-ed piece by Richard Spertzel explorint one aspect of the Anthrax case; the make-up of the anthrax spores, and whether Ivins could have made the granular "weaponized" type of material that was mailed to various news outlets and two democratic senators.
But there is another aspect of this case that has always intrigued me, and that is the Princeton connection. That part of the case broke yesterday, and it raises far more questions than it provides answers...
I first read the story on Yahoo yesterday afternoon. It is now posted on Huffington Post, you all know how to get there, so I won't bother with a link. A similar story is also posted on the time website. The story purportedly provides a link or nexus between Irvins and Princeton. Here it is in a nutshell.
Ivins mailed the anthrax letters, on two separate days, from a Princeton mailbox that was close to a sorority house, a sorority house that he was supposedly fixated on. The sorority is Kappa Kappa Gamma. Ivins allegedly has been "fixated" on this sorority since college because a sorority sister rejected his advances.
You might be asking yourself this, ok, what else? Well, at this point, that is about it. Oh, and did I mention that:
The mailbox just off the campus of Princeton University where the letters were mailed sits about 100 yards away from where the college's Kappa Kappa Gamma chapter stores its rush materials, initiation robes and other property. Sorority members do not live there, and the Kappa chapter at Princeton does not provide a house for the women.
or that:
Still, authorities acknowledge they cannot place Ivins in Princeton the day the anthrax was mailed.
There have been some tantlizing tidbits, such as the fact that Ivins rented a P.O. box in Frederick MD under an assumed name. And that the type of envelope used has been tracked to that same post office. But hold on a moment. I used to work for the post office. purchases of envelopes are made on at least a regional level, and shipped all over the area.
So, as I said at the outset, more questions then answers. Here are a few I have for the FBI:
Since you have absolutely nothing proving Ivins was in or near the Trenton area on the days of the mailing in 2001, do you have any evidence at all that Ivins was ever in, or ever had any connection with the area?
Beyond the extremely thin sorority connection, have you established any other reason why Ivins allegedly mailed the two batches of letters in the same mailbox?
Since there are several other Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority houses located at college campus' much closer to Fredrick MD. than Princeton (which is 195 miles) do you have any theory as to why Ivins picked this location, as opposed to one closer, given it really isn't even a sorority house?