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Talk Back: What's your take on the Bruce Ivins saga? (video)
Originally published August 10, 2008
By Pam Rigaux
News-Post Staff
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The FBI said Bruce Ivins, a Fort Detrick scientist and leading anthrax researcher, was solely responsible for the 2001 anthrax mailings that killed five people. They think they got their guy, but here is what the public had to say about it in Frederick on Friday: Frederick resident Amy Keating said, "I think that finding one man responsible for those actions is an easy solution to a big problem." Frederick resident Dawn Stein said, "It blows me away. I don't know. I feel sorry for him and his family. But, I also know mental illness is a devastating thing, if that's what he had. So I feel sorry for them and all the victims." Pete Cramer, a Hagerstown resident, said, "I would almost say the government's got him down right. He did send stuff from Princeton or wherever he went up to send it ... It's a shame Hatfill had to go through what he went through." John Hewetson, a Frederick resident, said, "Well, I think that the evidence they have is rather sketchy. I don't think it's really good hard evidence. It's all circumstantial evidence. I think they need to have a lot more hard evidence and evidence confirmed by outside sources to really be a very strong case." Urbana resident Steve Warner said, "You just have to go with what you read and what you hear. Unless you get to view that evidence, you really can't have much of an opinion unless the media tells you, or unless you knew him personally, which I didn't." Gary Schwartz, a Frederick resident, said, "I didn't really know him. I came in contact with him over the last 10 years. He always seemed eloquent. Extremely educated. You just never know what people are capable of if in fact it was him. It's easy to say, 'He committed suicide, now we're off the hook.' If he was so unstable, why weren't they looking at that? He was handling anthrax ... There's just a lot of stuff that isn't coming out that we don't know." John Flowers, a Frederick resident said, "I don't really have a take ... I think he did it." Gaithersburg resident Frank Reed said, "This guy was having mental problems. Why didn't the FBI know he was mentally unstable years ago? The guy's handling anthrax. Somebody wasn't doing their job." Melissa Munson, a Frederick resident, said, "I don't know. I just read it in the paper. I don't know if they're setting him up. But I do feel really bad for him if that didn't happen the way they said it did."
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