{"id":194985,"date":"2008-08-05T17:29:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-05T22:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/05\/head-of-unscom-bio-weapons-said-ivins-couldnt-have-done-it\/"},"modified":"2008-08-05T17:29:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T22:29:00","slug":"head-of-unscom-bio-weapons-said-ivins-couldnt-have-done-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/05\/head-of-unscom-bio-weapons-said-ivins-couldnt-have-done-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Head of Unscom Bio Weapons Said, Ivins Couldn&#8217;t Have Done It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Spertzel, head of the biological-weapons section of Unscom from 1994-99, nd a member of the Iraq Survey Group, <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB121789293570011775.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries\">wrote an Op\/Ed in the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Wall Street Journal<\/span><\/a> that I highly recommend.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, he says that Bruce Ivins, and everyone at the lab, worked on the bacteria in growth media, and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">did not have the equipment to make the weaponized form<\/span>, which is powdered and given coatings to create a static charge to further spread the powder:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>From what we know so far, Bruce Ivins, although potentially a brilliant scientist, was not that man. The multiple disciplines and technologies required to make the anthrax in this case<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> do not exist at Army&#8217;s Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases<\/span>. Inhalation studies are conducted at the institute, but they are done using liquid preparations, not powdered products.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">emphasis mine<\/span>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Spertzel, head of the biological-weapons section of Unscom from 1994-99, nd a member of the Iraq Survey Group, wrote an Op\/Ed in the Wall Street Journal that I highly recommend. Basically, he says that Bruce Ivins, and everyone at the lab, worked on the bacteria in growth media, and did not have the equipment &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1052,1074,1069,1076],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes","category-medical","category-science","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194985"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}