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Blame the Dead Guy, 2001 anthrax attacks
Albert N. Milliron - Opinion - Editorial
The Justice Department said that Bruce Ivins was the sole individual who committed the 2001 biological attacks with Anthrax that killed 5 people and hospitalized more then a dozen. The only problem here is, Ivins held a security clearance in the Department of Defenses' Personal Reliability Program. A program that would screen it's personal for Mental Health issues. Had Ivins showed any indication of a Mental Health issue he would be screened by psychologists and immediately removed from the program. A person with the stated mental illness and paranoid behavior would never be allowed to work with biological agents.
How did this man continue to hold his security clearance while he was under suspicion by the Department of Justice? Just a question.
The writer provided mental health screenings for the DOD for those in the personal reliability program in the 1980s and 1990s. No one with the mental health issues as stated by DOJ would continue to hold a high level security clearance. How convenient, Blame the Dead Guy
The DOJ released documents from a "herculean" investigation that lasted nearly seven years.
"We are confident that Dr. Ivins was the only person responsible for these attacks," Jeffrey Taylor, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, told reporters Wednesday afternoon.
The Justice Department released the documents implicating Ivins in the attacks, which killed five people and sickened more than a dozen people.
Authorities said Ivins committed suicide last week as federal prosecutors prepared to present the results of their investigation to a grand jury.
Taylor said prosecutors are "confident" they could have proved their case against him.
Ivins was the custodian of a flask of a highly purified anthrax spores that had "certain genetic mutations identical to the anthrax used in the attacks," according to the court documents
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