Anthrax Timeline-IMPOSSIBLE To Rectify-Ivins In "Hot Suite" AFTER Stopping Immunizations???

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If Ivins was taken off the Special Immunization Program, it makes no sense that he would have retained access to Suite B3.

07 August 2008
Would Ivins Really Have Been Allowed in the Hot Suite After Stopping the Special Immunization Program?

http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/08/06/anthrax-timeline-two/#comments Marcy Wheeler has assembled another of her very impressive timelines, in which she has integrated information from yesterday's document dump with other facts from the investigation of the anthrax attacks of 2001. Of particular interest are two early entries on the timeline:

Spring 2001:Ivins taken off Special Immunization Program

September 7, 2001: Ivins put back on Special Immunization Program

From the documents, it is clear that Bruce Ivins was taken off the Special Immunization Program in the spring of 2001 and then immunizations re-started on September 7. That information is impossible to rectify with the chart in the first search warrant attachment, where the government lays out the case for Ivins spending extra time in the laboratory around the time that the materials in the mailings could have been prepared. Note the discussion of Suite B3:
http://www.usdoj.gov/amerithrax/07-524-M-01%20attachment.pdf

USAMRID containment Suite B3 is a Biological Safety Level-3 (BSL-3) suite of laboratories used by USAMRIID Bacteriology personnel for research on dangerous animal and human pathogens. The flask identified as RMR-1029 was stored in Suite B3 at the time of the letter attacks. Suite access is obtained via a Security Access Control (SAC) badge reader at the door to the cold-side change room, which is secured by a magnetic-lock. A central security system monitors and records a time stamp for each SAC badge and keypad request.

A review of Dr. Ivins's laboratory access records for Building 1425 was assessed to determine trends in working hours and evening times (after 6 p.m.) spent in Suite B3. His regular working hours on average consisted of a 7:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. shift, but he would periodically return in the evenings, presumably to check on the status of various experiments. Beginning in mid-August 200 1 ; however, there was a noticeable spike in Dr. Ivins's evening access to the B3 hot Suite.

If Ivins was taken off of the Special Immunization Program, he should not have had access to the "hot Suite". Here is a chart with a detailed summary of Ivins' after-hours activity from the same document:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YIHUD1hy0eU/SJr65OjaLBI/AAAAAAAAAEc/vJlkhokIqQk/s1600-h/Night+Hours.JPG

more at:
http://achievingourcountry.blogspot.com/2008/08/would-ivins-really-have-been-allowed-in.html

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1. Interesting article! nt