In a 1999 interview with The Washington Post, Duley described her background as a motorcycle gang member and a drug user. "Heroin. Cocaine. PCP," said Duley, who then used the name Jean Wittman. "You name it, I did it."
So Ms. Duley, who is an entry-level counselor-in-training and must work under supervision and is probably on criminal probation from her DUI, is the vulnerable “therapist-counselor” ripe for corruption and intimidation by the FBI. The "mighty Wurlitzer," aka mainstream media, that the CIA’s Frank Wisner began organizing into a formal program of public deception and disinformation under Operation Mockingbird in the late 1940s, has presented Ivins’s suicide as occurring in response to nothing but the news that the FBI was closing in on him and that he would be indicted. But all the evidence indicates that the FBI was closing in on him by framing him, setting him up, substituting destruction of his career and family life for evidence that they lacked, or would have to "produce" themselves, literally. The Post offers this summary account:
It [late last fall] was around the time that FBI agents showed Ivins’s 24-year-old daughter pictures of the victims who had died in the 2001 anthrax attacks and told her, "Your father did this," the scientist said. The agents also offered her twin brother the $2.5 million reward for solving the anthrax case -- and the sports car of his choice.
…According to the scientist [the Post interviewed], who said he spent about 80 hours with Ivins to help him recover from his [alcohol] addiction, the FBI agents pressured Ivins's children, and they were pressuring Ivins in public places. One day in March, when Ivins was at a Frederick mall with his wife and son, the agents confronted the researcher and said, "You killed a bunch of people." Then they turned to his wife and said, "Do you know he killed people?" according to the scientist.
The same week, Ivins angrily told a former colleague that he suspected his therapist was cooperating with the FBI. On March 19, police were called to Ivins's home and found him unconscious. He was evaluated at Frederick Memorial Hospital. (Emphasis added)
What the Post omits are the particulars that the FBI confided to Ivins or his family that Ivins appreciated could have come only from his “therapist,” Jean Duley. Other news accounts describe the FBI confiscating Ivins’s guns, making frequent unannounced visits to his home, and confiscating his computers. When there is a genuine hot trail of evidence, the FBI does not need to behave like thugs arbitrarily assaulting Ivins’s right to a life, which assaults gave rise to any fantasies of revenge he had: so would we all.
These strong-arm tactics are typically reserved for the innocent who are singled out for destruction, not on the guilty intended to be brought to trial, because such goon-behavior would play out at trial as obvious prejudice, if not outright obstruction of justice. As an historic example of witness intimidation that would not have occurred if a trial were planned, I offer a similar but milder assault on Dr. William Perry, the Dallas surgeon at Parkland Hospital who described a bullet entrance wound in Kennedy’s throat at a press conference an hour after the president’s death on a Friday. During and after the autopsy in which the results were rigged the results, Dr. Perry received intimidating calls clearly intended to change his opinion to fit the official story that JFK was shot from behind by Oswald, Dr, Perry would not agree because he knew that the bullet wound in Kennedy's throat was an entrance wound and that he would be required to testify at Oswald’s trial. But he was told not to attend the press conference for Saturday, and by Sunday Oswald was dead. The operatives who told Dr. Perry to change his opinion were not worried about their efforts to obstruct justice coming out at Oswald’s trial because they knew there would be no such trial. (For details, see my essay "Besmirching History: Vincent Bugliosi Assassinates Kennedy Again: The Military and Warren Commission Cover-up.")
The FBI and CIA have a long and ignominious history of destroying lives, driving people to suicide or near-suicide, sometimes with the help of their own intelligence-linked mental health professionals. For the JFK assassination alone, read the hard-to-find history of Dallas Deputy Sheriff Roger Craig, When They Kill a President, or Ralph Leon Yates and Abraham Bolden (both detailed in James W. Douglass, JFK and the Unspeakable), or Michael C. Ruppert (still with us, but broken) at his website www.fromthewilderness.com, or investigative reporter Gary Webb (hounded into suicide after exposing CIA drug pushing into inner-city ghettoes in the San Jose Mercury News and later in his book, Dark Alliance).
The WSJ of August 6, 2008 now reveals the FBI’s evidence against Ivins. According to the FBI, they found a flask in a lab to which Ivins (and many others) had access that had the two strains of anthrax found in one of the victims and that a diligent search of shipping records for the strains – made in two separate places – found them intersecting only at the lab in Ft. Detrick where Ivins worked. So says the FBI who discovered the flask years after 911, time enough for a guilty man to have wiped clean and discarded all of the evidence, but lucky for the FBI, and according to the FBI, not Bruce Ivins! There is still no mention of the “new technique” that permitted the FBI to reach its startling conclusions, probably because there is no “new technique.” How was this “new evidence” discovered? Was it by search warrant or open seizure of evidence for the purpose of analysis? No, it was done in the dark of night with the security cameras turned off. The Journal advises:
The FBI appointed two veteran agents to take over leadership of the case in 2006. Vincent Lisi, a supervisory agent, and Edward Montooth, an inspector in the case, helped lead a team that re-examined all the evidence.
By late 2006, it was clear the investigation was homing in on Dr. Ivins, said Jeffrey Adamovicz, who took over as chief of Dr. Ivins's division in 2003. The FBI began searches and seizures in the lab, usually but not always at night. Dr. Adamovicz didn't know what was searched because the FBI would turn off the security cameras while they were there.
The FBI took samples of anthrax from Dr. Ivins's freezer relating to old experiments, Dr. Adamovicz said. Agents returned a few months later and took a different set of samples contained in a "beaker or large vial," Dr. Adamovicz recalled. It isn't clear whether this is the flask the FBI is focused on. Later, the FBI took Dr. Ivins's computer. Dr. Adamovicz said the scientist was very upset, adding, "He mentioned a couple times maybe they were trying to set him up." (Emphasis added)
History is instructive. The FBI has a long and dishonorable history of manufacturing and distorting forensic results to fit the political needs. One example from the JFK assassination is especially memorable. The Mannlicher-Carcano rifle that Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly used to shoot Kennedy was immediately sent to FBI headquarters and checked for prints for its top fingerprint expert, but there were none. Later in the case as more evidence was needed for the Warren Commission, two FBI agents visited Oswald in the morgue carrying the Mannlicher-Carcano, asked the morgue personnel to leave, and later, lo! one of Oswald’s prints was discovered on the rifle anew. For an instructive account of the FBI’s routine corruption of evidence, read John F. Kelley, Tainting Evidence, or read the “USDOJ-FBI Labs Report” and then everything you can find on the fate of FBI whistle-blower Fredercik Whitehurst.
While the WSJ’s big stories declare Ivins’s guilt, an opinion piece by Richard Spertzel of August 5, 2008, buried in the back pages proves his innocence. Spertzel was head of the biological weapons section of UNSCOM for 1994-1999, and has followed the case carefully; he mentions no DNA “new technique” in his analysis, but underscores that the “DNA match” is a red herring, and thus I suggest that it is likely planted evidence. The key issue has not been the DNA type, but the technology for weaponizing the samples. Spertzel advises:
According to a FBI news release from November 2001, the particles were coated by a "product not seen previously to be used in this fashion before." Apparently, the spores were coated with a polyglass which tightly bound hydrophilic silica to each particle. …Another FBI leak indicated that each particle was given a weak electric charge, thereby causing the particles to repel each other at the molecular level. This made it easier for the spores to float in the air, and increased their retention in the lungs. In short, the potential lethality of anthrax in this case far exceeds that of any powdered product found in the now extinct U.S. Biological Warfare Program.
…The FBI has not officially released information on why it focused on Ivins, and whether he was about to be charged or arrested. And when the FBI does release this information, we should all remember that the case needs to be firmly based on solid information that would conclusively prove that a lone scientist could make such a sophisticated product.
