Democratic government employees were terrorized by a government strain of bacteria purposely sent with at least some physical connection to a government lab and a corrupt Republican Justice Dept of the same administration is the investigator...American citizens were killed!

We have no idea what Dr. Ivins knew or True or false we know the narrative is being cooked now. As a former government research microbiologist with high level of clearance, I and anyone can be just as maligned as Dr. Ivins has been the past day on more suggestive data.  Without a full hearing in front of a judge, Dr. Ivins is the goat - no more no less.

I remain outraged and the salt in this wound is having zero confidence in the next President to investigate.

After reading Glenn Greenwald's piece on Salon, I also think ABC News could do some actual public service reporting here by finally revealing who the "four highly placed government officials" who acted as sources for them in reporting that the anthrax found in the letters contained a compound which linked it to Iraq.  They were only too happy to trumpet this news repeatedly, connecting Iraq with terrorism on American soil, and thus adding to the drumbeat for war with Iraq, when it was allowing them to talk about a big scoop.  Now, years after those claims have definitively proven to be false, they still refuse to name their sources, who obviously LIED to them.  Why in hell journalists continue to protect sources who lie to them is beyond me.  I thought you protected your sources so that you would be able to continue to get truthful information, not flat-out lies of enormous magnitude and significance.

Also, if he is the "Anthrax Killer" it stands to reason that he might well have a substantial stockpile of weapons-grade anthrax hidden somewhere.  Why then was he apparently given advance warning that he would be charged?   Apart from the risk of flight, surely the possibility that this obviously mentally unstable man might take lots of people with him if he decided to kill himself must have been obvious even to the FBI?  So, why would Justice disregard its own procedures in such a high profile case?  

One possible answer might be that they were aware their evidence was very weak and probably would not result in a conviction but were nonetheless under tremendous pressure to produce a result.  If certain people were fairly sure that he wasn't the killer (and so would not be able to release his hidden stockpile of anthrax) but that he seemed to be buckling under the constant pressure and might kill himself rather than be dragged through the court system, telling him might make some sense.    

The New York Times exclusively obtained the audiotape of a court hearing in which therapist Jean Duley told a judge that she feared for her life. She testifies that, at a July 9 group-therapy session, Ivins announced that he had bought a gun and a bulletproof vest and was plotting to kill his co-workers at the Fort Detrick Army research laboratory.