It's hard to believe, but the case against Ivins, as far as being the "Anthrax Killer" just keeps getting worse. And more embarrassing to the FBI.
Now it turns out that the FBI was offering Big Bucks, millions of dollars, for people to turn on Ivins and report incriminating stories about him.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Before killing himself last week, Army scientist Bruce Ivins told friends that government agents had stalked him and his family for months, offered his son $2.5 million to rat him out and tried to turn his hospitalized daughter against him with photographs of dead anthrax victims.
It gets worse ....
Not only that, but TIME magazine is reporting that Ivins passed two polygraph tests:
Ivins took at least two polygraph tests, says attorney Paul Kemp, and apparently passed both of them. "That certainly was our impression," he says. "That's certainly what he was told."
Hm, earlier today we had a most damning op-ed at the Wall Street Journal, and now TIME and the Associated Press, not exactly the most "liberal" of "journalistic" endeavors, are now pointing out broad and basic problems with this ridiculous case the FBI is expecting us to swallow.
What gets me is the fact that the FBI was offering big money for people to rat out Ivins.
And guess who DID rat him out? His "therapist", someone with a rather checkered past of her own:
Duley, 45, also has a minor criminal record, according to court records. She pleaded guilty in April to driving under the influence and was fined $500 and placed on probation for nearly a year. In October 2006, she pleaded guilty to reckless driving and was fined $580. A 1992 charge of possessing drug paraphernalia was dismissed.
Why am I suddenly skeptical about this woman, considering that the FBI more than likely PAID HER TONS OF MONEY to say the damning things she's said about Ivins. Considering none of what she's accused jibes one freaking bit with what his colleagues and others close to him have said.
How about this Duley stooge takes a polygraph? Anyone demanding that?
And yesterday they tried this stupid freaking sorority story? How stupid do they think we are? Oh right, they think we're pretty stupid.
And how dare they accuse this guy of having the potential to "profit" from anthrax vaccines, when they're the ones throwing around millions of dollars to people in an attempt to bribe an incriminating story out of them? How dare they?
Drag $2.5 million under enough people's noses, and a few of them will tell you anything they want. Maybe that's why Ivin's brother so weirdly confessed to "singing like a canary" even though he'd been estranged from his brother for years and years.
And Bradblog has been all over the blatant and obvious derliction on the part of the media, who have conveniently neglected to report that:
a. The guy was a registered Democrat and voted Democrat for years, yet was supposedly sending Anthrax to leading Democrats.
b. Oh yeah, the Anthrax Killer sent the stuff to leading Democrats. That's another thing they've kinda left out. They've actually said the victims were "random" and had "nothing in common". Uh .... no.
Yet some of the leading voices of the right wing corporate "media" are reporting some pretty damning stuff about the FBI's so-called "case." It's just an odd, smelly story indeed. And getting worse by the day.