Ivins painted as Anthrax terrorist - but we can't trust the FBI or Justice Department who are doing the accusing

The news is full of multiple stories about how very unstable Bruce Ivins was and how he may have been a "revenge motivated sociopath." Cased closed. After almost seven years of failure and having to pay off an earlier "Prime Suspect" "Person of Interest" for leaking his name to the press, the FBI claims they have their man.

Oh, and this time they arranged it better lucked out. He's dead, so he can't defend himself and shred their case.

Only as Glenn Greenwald now points out, all of the reports of Ivin's mental instability come from a single Social Worker (not a psychiatrist or psychologist) who is only one year out of school herself. The "social worker", Jean Carol Duley, has herself had mental health problems. From Glenn:

She has a rather lengthy involvement with the courts in Frederick, including two very recent convictions for driving under the influence -- one from 2007 and one from 2006 -- as well as a complaint filed against her for battery by her ex-husband. [Snip]

Just three months ago, Duley pled guilty and was sentenced to probation (and fined $1,000), as a result of having been stopped in December, while driving at 1:35 a.m., and charged with driving under the influence: [Snip]

On April 21, 2006, Duley was also charged with "driving a vehicle while impaired by alcohol," driving "while impaired by drugs or alcohol," and reckless driving, and on October 13, 2006, she pled guilty to the charge of reckless driving and was fined $580. Back in 1992, Duley was criminally charged with battery against what appeared to be her now-ex-husband (and she filed a complaint against him as well). Later that same year, she was criminally charged with possession of drug paraphenalia with intent to use, charges which appear to have been ultimately dismissed.

Glenn has screen shots of the charging documents for the two DUI's.

This is not to say that Bruce Ivins was not the Anthrax killer. All it says is that none of the news media reports are worth the pixels and ink they are presented on until the FBI releases the real evidence - and it is carefully evaluated, something a jury might have done had Ivin's not conveniently "committed suicide" and the Department of Justice had permitted the case to go to trial.

At the moment, the only sources of information are highly biased and completely unreliable (Duley and the FBI.) While we don't know What Duley's motive for framing Ivins might be, the FBI has taken seven years for the investigation, severely screwed up the case against Steven Hatfill, and shown no effective results. The new FBI management has had no better success than the previous management, and the FBI in general has, shall we say, NOT been seen to cover itself in glory at any time since it was found they screwed up following the 9/11 attackers in 2001.

The FBI is part of the Justice Department, which has an even worse reputation for both effectiveness and honesty this decade. Add to that, they are all part of the Bush/Cheney/Rove administration known for never telling the Truth when a lie was possible. The Anthrax investigation is unfinished business that needs to be closed before the end of the Bush administration or someone new will come in and see how badly it was screwed up. The FBI and their bossed have strong motivation to find a culprit and convict him - in the Media at least.

There is clearly a heavy propaganda effort to paint Bruce Ivins as the guilty culprit, and it will be made easier because of his very timely death. But so far it is all based on smoke and mirrors.

Let's wait for someone to remove the curtain so we can see what's behind it before we decide the FBI has this story right.

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Addendum 1:12 pm CDT
Language cleared up to make the argument more clear, and my erroneous references to "Irwin" have been replace with the proper "Ivins."

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