Wonderland or Not » Greenwald http://wonderlandornot.net things that concern me, and things that make me laugh Sat, 19 May 2012 05:33:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Sunday Night Notes http://wonderlandornot.net/2009/03/23/sunday-night-notes/ http://wonderlandornot.net/2009/03/23/sunday-night-notes/#comments Mon, 23 Mar 2009 05:42:08 +0000 cooper http://wonderlandornot.net/?p=4911 Continue Reading →

]]> I’m tired. I have to catch some Big Love, the HBO series not the real thing, at 2AM, and I don’t feel like blogging tonight. Not to miss Sunday night notes, I leave you with this, taken from John’s site. Not because you haven’t seen it, most people have, but because I like it,

And on “The virtues of public anger and the need for more“ Glenn Greenwald. Ditto.

Now I don’t have to write a thing.

Peace

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]]> I have a vested interest in the Fort Detrick scientist fiasco. My current proximity to it make me naturally curious about related news. I lived here in high school as well, at the time of the original Anthrax murders. Occurring right after 9/11, and concurrent with the beltway shooters, caught in a rest area not far from here, after being served Pizza at a local Pizza Hut by a classmate of mine, it just added to my already high anxiety. An anxiety that stemmed from being locked down in a high school classroom on 9-11 due to the short distance from D.C. and Camp David, sure we were going to be nuked . Hearing how the deadly Anthrax most likely came from the research facility near one of my favorite bagel places was just more piling on to the already angst filled teenage mind.

Consequently, when news is made on any of the above subjects I can’t help but devour it.

The first scientist they tried to pin the antrhax on, Steven J. Hatfill, the one they spent years investigating, hounding, to death, ruining his life, recently settled a lawsuit with the Justice department for millions. They moved on to another researcher Bruce E. Ivins. He died yesterday of an overdose of prescription drugs just as they were “closing in”, planning to prosecute with a whole lot of new evidence.

In this report from ABC news I read:

A social worker named Jean Duley had filed a protection order against Ivins last month, alleging that he had made “threats of homicidal intent” in mid-July. The court documents also indicate that Ivins had been admitted to a hospital in the area and was under psychiatric care.

“Client has a history dating to his graduate days of homicidal threats, actions, plans threats & actions toward therapist [sic]. Dr. David Irwin his psychiatrist called him homicidal, sociopathic, with clear intentions,” a handwritten page submitted with the application stated.

My question, and I’m sure it’s your question as well, is this. Are they trying to tell me that the same government who knew everything they wanted to know about anybody they wanted to know it about (at least since the tights and beret wearing beatniks are communist era), hired a man to work with a biological weapon of mass destruction not knowing his history?

Or are you telling me they hired a man to work with biological weapons of mass destruction despite knowing his questionable mental status?

* throws hands up in the air*

Go away.

Just doesn’t make sense to me.

“The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it’s so rare.”

Daniel Moynihan

Either the government is more ignorant than I feared or this poor researcher was a convenient patsy.

It sucks either way we look at it.

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