The attorney for Bruce Ivins says the scientist did not know he was a suspect in the Anthrax case.

As the government pegs the blame for the 2001 deadly attacks on one Army biologist, the attorney for scientist Bruce Ivins says his client never knew he was "the suspect" in the attacks.

"We were never informed or advised that an indictment was imminent of him," attorney Tom DeGonia tells WTOP. DeGonia's broadcast interview is Ivins' lawyers' first interview since Ivins committed suicide.

Ivins, a Fort Detrick scientist, overdosed on acetaminophen. He died July 29, hours before he was set to meet with the government about the case. Even though Ivins had died, DeGonia and co-counsel Paul Kemp still met with the Justice Department that day. It was then, DeGonia says, the government offered up a reverse proffer -- its plans to seek an indictment against Ivins.

"It had never been made clear to him nor to us that he was 'the suspect,'" says DeGonia, Ivins' co-counsel.

"They've maintained that they are confident they have the correct person. Neither we nor the public have been presented with any hard, direct evidence, of the doctor's involvement in these killings," DeGonia says.

While DeGonia acknowledges he's speaking out to protect Ivins' reputation as much as possible, DeGonia says the public should question the government's case.
He says the government has leaked information that 15 different research facilities across the country had access to the anthrax in question.

"It's very difficult when you have no direct evidence that this man was involved in it to say that he was the only one that had access to this material," DeGonia says.

A search warrant affidavit indicated the government had other potential suspects, he says.

"In that affidavit there are at least eight other people who the government had the same suspicions on or enough suspicions anyway to get either search warrants for either their laboratories or their homes or their vehicles and how those people were eliminated. We just have no information about how they were eliminated."

It is becoming more and more clear that this case against Bruce Ivins is falling apart.

The FBI's case seems to hinge almost solely on the testimony of this Jean Duley person and I have a feeling that we are going to find that she is not terribly reliable. But everything else about the case is either circumstantial or absolutely false.

We need to keep paying close attention to this case. It is time for the government to stop lying to us and to really investigate just what really did happen on 9-11 and afterward.