Mary Nass fellow scientist at Fort Detrick where, accused "Anthrax terrorist", Bruce Ivins supposedly created the Anthrax powder.

It is unlikely that Ivins knew how to prepare weaponized anthrax, but not inconceivable.

However, the amount he would have had to process was larger than needed for his animal experiments. Each letter is thought to have contained 2-3 trillion spores. I can’t recall his animals receiving more than about a million spores each. So roughly one million times as much anthrax was needed for the letters as for an animal experiment. Increasing the scale of fermentation should have been noticed. Drying anthrax would have been noticed, as there was no need to prepare any other anthrax specimens this way. Sudden use of a dryer for large samples would be suspicious. Post-drying processing for the letter anthrax likely took place; were the materials needed available to Ivins?

How the anthrax was produced and processed is crucial to solving the case, but the information is classified. The FBI’s failure to provide briefings to Congress and reliable information to the public means it may be impossible for those outside the investigation to independently evaluate the evidence in the case.

Even if Ivin's supposed "therapist" Jean Duley is correct about his homicidal tendencies, which I doubt very much, it is becoming clearer and clearer that even if Bruce Ivins wanted to send these deadly letters he simply lacked the tools and knowledge to accomplish that goal.

The really disheartening part of this story, beside the complete character assassination being done on this award winning scientist by our government, is how completely the MSM has swallowed this story.

Where is the skepticism from a media that has been lied to repeatedly by this government? I mean how many times must they be made fools of by the Bush administration before they learn to take every thing the officials say with a giant grain of salt?

And this is what the Bush administration is counting on. If nobody pursues the story then it just disappears from the consciousness of every American and the criminals get away with another lie that nobody called them on. We deserve better.