EXCLUSIVE

THE ANTHRAX CASE

BRUCE E. IVIN’S.
FORT DETRICK LAB ACCESS RECORDS REVEALED

“WINDOWS OF OPPORTUNITY”

By Eric Longabardi

(Sept 25th, 2008 9:00AM PST)

The Enterprise Report has exclusively obtained highly detailed U.S. government documents proving the whereabouts of now deceased Army microbiologist Bruce E. Ivins on the days the anthrax letters were mailed. The documents detail the precise "windows of opportunity" that Ivins had to mail the letters, if he was the person who did so in 2001.

These never before seen security records detail Ivin's time at the US Army’s USARMIID laboratory in Fort Detrick, Maryland on the days in question relative to the mailings of the anthrax letters.  Ivins, a US Army scientist killed himself in July 2008, after becoming the primary focus of the government’s investigation.  After his death The U.S. Department of Justice, FBI and U.S. Postal Inspection Service named him as the person solely responsible for the 2001 anthrax letter attacks.

The anthrax letters were mailed from a Princeton New Jersey mailbox and postmarked September 18th and October 9th, 2001.  They were sent to a variety of news media outlets and two US Senators.

The documents reveal Ivin’s “windows of opportunity” in which he would have been able to travel from Fort Detrick, Maryland to a U.S postal service mailbox in Princeton New Jersey, where the anthrax letters were dropped, according to federal authorities

As ERS News reported last week, the contents of the documents reveal that Ivins had five (5) specific “windows of opportunity” in which enough time existed for him to have made the long round trip from Fort Detrick Maryland to Princeton New Jersey.  Our previous story can be read below.

The two pages of security access documents which reveal Ivin’s whereabouts at the Fort Detrick Army lab on September 17th and 18th and October 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th, 2001, can be seen here:

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EXCLUSIVE

FBI DIRECTOR
TELLS CONGRESS
ANTHRAX CASE
IS SOLVED

SENATOR PATRICK LEAHY DOESN’T BELIEVE IT

By Eric Longabardi

(Sept 18th, 2008 9:00AM PST)

In Washington yesterday FBI Director Robert Mueller told a Senate Committee that although the FBI had solved the 2001 Anthrax case, that killed five and injured many more, the case remained open and that any new leads would be followed up on.  Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont, an intended target of one the Anthrax laden letters sent on Oct 9th 2001 was not impressed. 

The Senator told the FBI Chief that he didn’t believe Bruce Ivins, who the FBI has named as the person who committed the crime acted alone, “If he is the one who sent the letter, I do not believe in any way, shape or manner that he is the only person involved in this attack on Congress and the American people” Another highly skeptical Senator on the Committee, Charles Grassley of Iowa, was not impressed with the FBI’s investigation of the case either.

ERS News, which yesterday reported exclusive new details on the case (which you can read below), has obtained highly detailed government records proving Bruce Ivins whereabouts on the dates the letters were postmarked on September 18th and October 9th 2001, from a Princeton New Jersey mailbox.  The records show that Ivins had five specific times on the dates in question that he could have possibly traveled to New Jersey to mail the letters.  The records also show that he could not have mailed the letters at any other time.

The records document Bruce Ivins movements in Maryland on dates related to the mailing of the Anthrax letters.

 

 

 

 

UPDATE

THE ANTHRAX LETTERS

CASE CLOSED
OR
CASE STILL OPEN?

THE FBI’s CASE AGAINST
BRUCE E. IVINS

FBI DIRECTOR ROBERT MUELLER TO TESTIFY BEFORE CONGRESS ON
FBI’S ANTHRAX INVESTIGATION

By Eric Longabardi

(Sept 16th, 2008 9:30AM PST)

ERS News can report exclusively that Bruce Ivins did not mail any letters on Oct 9th, 2001 from Princeton, New Jersey.  ERS has also learned that Bruce Ivins did have specific “timeframe windows of opportunity” to do so on September 17th and 18th and Oct 6th, 7th and 8th 2001. 

The Enterprise Report has exclusively obtained highly detailed government documents, which recorded many of Ivins movements and whereabouts on the dates in question.  The Enterprise Report can also reveal that Ivin’s  “window of opportunity” to have driven to Princeton New Jersey can be narrowed down to five (5) specific instances where Ivins had the “opportunity” to do so.  The FBI to date has provided no evidence that Ivins in fact did drive to Princeton, New Jersey and was the person who placed the letters in a mailbox on a busy Princeton street.  ERS News sought comment from Ivin’s Maryland based Attorney’s Paul Kemp and Thomas Degonia, but so far has received no response regarding the details ERS News has uncovered concerning Ivin’s whereabouts on the dates and times in question.

The Dept of Justice, FBI and US Postal Inspection Service have all said Ivins is the anthrax killer.  Ivins, now deceased, was a longtime US Army microbiologist. 
According to the FBI, the case is solved.  The FBI believes Bruce Ivins is a cold-blooded killer and was preparing to charge him with the crimes when he committed suicide.

Others in the media have reported that the authorities believe sometime on September 17th Ivins drove from the Fort Deterick, Maryland area to Princeton New Jersey and placed anthrax filled envelopes in a mailbox on a busy street. According to the FBI, sometime between Oct 6th and Oct 9th he did the same again.  Although, the FBI has to date provided no hard evidence he did so, that is what they have told the American public.  The FBI claims “circumstantial evidence” shows Ivins mailed the letters.  Although the FBI has claimed its case against Ivin is solid, the investigation, despite media reports to the contrary, remains open according to Justice Dept spokesman Dean Boyd who confirmed that to ERSNews this week.  The case is still actively being investigated, according to other media reports.

Nearly a month after holding a press conference to proclaim Bruce Ivins the anthrax killer and the release of limited information about the case, FBI Director Robert Mueller will be before House and Senate Committees today and tomorrow (Sept. 16th and 17th, 2008). Lawmakers, many of whom remain highly skeptical of the FBI’s case against Bruce Ivins, will grill FBI Director Mueller about the FBI’s “Amerithax” 7-year long investigation.  We’ll just have to wait and see if the FBI case against Bruce Ivins gets stronger or weaker in the days to come.

 

 

 

EXCLUSIVE

THE ANTHRAX KILLER
OR
AN INNOCENT MAN?

WHERE WAS
DR. BRUCE E. IVINS
COLUMBUS DAY HOLIDAY
WEEKEND 2001?

OCT 6th
OCT 7th
OCT 8TH

By Eric Longabardi

(Aug 7th, 2008 9:30AM PST)

The FBI and the Dept. of Justice say they know who mailed anthrax laden letters to members of the media and two members of Congress in September and October of 2001.  

They say the Anthrax killer is Bruce E. Ivins, a highly regarded scientist who worked at the US Army’s biological research lab at Fort Detrick, Maryland.   Ivins committed suicide last week.  


Since there will be no trial, the Government is trying Ivins in the Court of Public Opinion. The Government has just released some of its evidence in the case.   The search warrants obtained by federal agents investigating the case describe what was seized (and not seized) during the searches.  The warrants also lay out the allegations brought by federal agents and why they suspected Ivins as the prime suspect in the case after 2005.  His access to the anthrax, which the government says was the exact batch that was used to create the anthrax used in the 2001 killings, was its primary piece of evidence.  The government says it had excluded other suspects and only Ivins remained.

 

If you take the government's evidence against Bruce Ivins as true there is still one glaring question. Where was Bruce Ivins when the letters were mailed? Did he mail them or did he have an alibi?  For Ivins to have mailed the letters he had to be in Princeton New Jersey to do so.  If he was not in New Jersey he didn’t personally mail the letters. Did he have an accomplice?  It is possible that someone else could have mailed them for him but the FBI doesn’t believe that and they say Ivins acted alone.

The government says the anthrax letters were mailed from a postal mail box at 10 Nassau Street in Princeton New Jersey. The two letters sent to Senators Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy were postmarked on October 9, 2001.  The post mark bore a time stamp of 5:45P.  That means the letters had to have been put in the mail box during a window of opportunity - which according to the pick up schedule of the postal box in question was between Saturday Oct 6th (after 3PM) and until Tuesday October 9th.  The mail was not collected on Sunday or Monday October 8, 2001 because of the Columbus Day holiday that Monday.  The mail from that box was picked up on Tuesday October 9, hence the October 9th post mark on the letters.

So where was Dr. Bruce Ivins on those days?  The FBI, Postal Inspectors and the full weight of the US government investigative agencies cannot determine that.  Despite all the allegations and evidence presented to date, the government has not presented a single piece of evidence as to where Dr. Ivins was on those dates.  

The only evidence the FBI seems to have uncovered about Dr. Ivins whereabouts at the time in question is that he was in the lab at Fort Detrick until 12:45AM on Saturday October 6th.  They again provide evidence that he was again at work at the lab on October 9th in the evening.

The missing extended weekend of October 6th through the 8th is a massive hole in their case.  The drive from Fort Detrick, MD to Princeton New Jersey is about 3 1-2 hours.   So far the FBI and the U.S. Government have no “evidence” that they have shown where Dr. Ivins was when the letters were mailed.

 

In the press conference, US Attorney Jeff Taylor responded with this answer to a reporter who asked about the subject of Dr. Ivins whereabouts on the dates the letters were mailed:

MR. TAYLOR (sic) … With respect to the mailbox, as I laid out before, there is ample evidence in this case pointing to Dr. Ivins as the individual who drove to Princeton to mail those letters. He had the hours in the hot seat during the relevant times. We looked at the records when he was at work and when he would have had time to drive to Princeton, New Jersey. And it's clear from those records that he had time on the relevant occasions to drive to Princeton, mail the envelopes, and come back. There's also evidence I'll refer you to in the affidavits concerning where that mailbox was located in Princeton, New Jersey in relation to some obsessive conduct on his part with regard to a sorority. Again, it's a chain. It's a chain of evidentiary items that, assembled together, leads to one reasonable conclusion, and that is Dr. Ivins mailed that anthrax in those envelopes from that mailbox in Princeton.

QUESTION: Is there evidence like a gas receipt that shows that he was there, I mean, that actually proves that he was in that area?
MR. TAYLOR: We don't have that piece of direct evidence you mentioned.

If Dr. Ivins is the anthrax killer then the evidence of his whereabouts for those three crucial days when the letters had to have been mailed from Princeton New Jersey should be somewhere.

The case is still officially open so maybe there is more evidence to come.

 

 

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