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Bruce Ivin's Therapist Was "Scared To Death" Of Him; Called Him A "Revenge Killer"

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by mainemade August 3, 2008 8:05 PM EDT
"Ivins, 62, who worked at an Army biodefense laboratory at Fort Detrick, took his own life Tuesday as federal authorities were closing in.",as stated in above article.

Justice has been served.
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by reyrey90 August 3, 2008 7:27 PM EDT
Why didn''t the psychologist report him? If a psychologist thinks/fears there client is a danger to himself or OTHERS, she is obligated to turn him in to the proper authorities!!
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by sandy19731 August 3, 2008 7:16 PM EDT
Some of you have suggested that this therapist violated patient/therapist confidentiality. In fact, this was testimony in front of a judge regarding a "danger to self or others". There is no privledge in this case. In fact, the therapist would be violation of the law if she had not reported this threat.
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by lovesamerica August 3, 2008 6:59 PM EDT
Couldn''t the guy just have been a wacked out nutjob without big political conotations?
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by samsel3 August 3, 2008 6:17 PM EDT
Another case of CIA assisted suicide.......Dr. Ivins joins another Fort Detrick Alumni, Dr. Frank Olson. The dead cannot speak and incriminate their perpetrators.

"While aides to Gerald Ford, Donald Rumsfeld and Richard Cheney helped cover up the background to the death of CIA scientist, Frank Olson who fell from a 10th floor window in 1953, not long after he had been classified as a potential security risk."

"Olson''s son Eric says his father''s conscience was troubled by awareness of Nazi-style CIA experiments on human subjects. "
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by samsel3 August 3, 2008 6:15 PM EDT
Sound familiar?.........

Frank Olson was not, after all a civilian employee of the Army. He was a CIA employee working at Fort Detrick on precursor programs to MK-ULTRA, specializing in anthrax aerosols, possibly for for use in covert assassination.
Olson''s passport, indicates that in the summer of 1953 --only months before his death-- he had visited secret joint American-British testing and research installations near Frankfurt, Germany where he had likely witnessed terminal experiments on expendable prisoners. His misgivings were such that a British intelligence agent who became aware of them recommended that Olson be denied further access to Porton Down, the British chemical-weapons research establishment."
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by wl7bzh August 3, 2008 5:28 PM EDT
It''''s a matter of ethics to not disclose a patients situation.

Posted by iphyt4u at 01:59 PM : Aug 03, 2008
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A psychologist with ethics? That''s kinda of an oxymoron considering you''re talking about a pseudoscience or at best an "art".
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by jmurrieta1 August 3, 2008 5:12 PM EDT
Specifically what DNA techniques are available now that were not available 4-5 years ago to genotype the anthrax strain?

Why won''t the government explain how this "new technique" just happened to come along so late, when full genome sequencing has been available for years.
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by jmurrieta1 August 3, 2008 5:11 PM EDT
Any scientist who works at a national laboratory where a security clearance is required is vetted repeatedly by Federal Protective Services.

Where were these clowns when this guy had access to weaponized anthrax and was making death threats?

Could FPS possibly have been that negligent and oblivious?

Or was Ivins being groomed as the fall guy to cover up a plan by *** Cheney''s office to build the case for the Iraq war on falsified evidence and on acts by agents provocateur?

This certainly would not be the first time that the federal government planted agents who would carry out acts of violence in order to build a political case for the administration. It happened all the time during the Nixon years.

And now the Bush administration is every bit as corrupt as the Nixon administration, and if anything, more ruthless in their grab for power.
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by vnveteran72 August 3, 2008 5:05 PM EDT
Ivins = Bush Administrations FALL GUY. Conveniently dead, replete with "therapist singing and correct placement in facility that made anthrax. No need for Dems or anyone else to look into this now. LOL

Now...to find the DNA remains of Bin Laden and any other outstanding and famous 911 people--before the November elections. The GOP is on a roll.....LMAO


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Posted by toldyouso12 at 12:48 PM : Aug 03, 2008
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Cheney: "Hello"??...."Yea, let me talk to McCain"....
"Yea, John,...no, forget the Polling, we''re working on this thing night and day and believe me, when we''re done, you''ll slide into the Oval Office like a Greased Pig"......"Yea, don''t worry"....."Me and Rove will handle it"......"Okay, see you in November, Mr. President"......
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