Well, sounds like the FBI’s got some very convincing circumstantial evidence, but the fact the guy seems to have been a literally raving loon cuts both ways. On the one hand, perhaps he’d have had an insane motive for the murders, on the other, his suicide is much less likely the implicit confession of guilt it seemed at first and merely the final, self-destructive act of a deteriorating personality.

Still the UNSCOM’s guy’s question remains: if it was this super-sophisticated weaponized anthrax, where did it come from? If Ivins was the murderer, where did he get it? Did the CIA steal some from Russia to evaluate? It’d be nice to think they’re that competent, these days.

Confucius, Œc. Vol.

Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu.