Seven years after the fact, an untidy and unsolved terrorist attack is seemingly resolved in a neat, tidy, dead and silent bundle.

A top government scientist who helped the FBI analyze samples from the 2001 anthrax attacks has died in Maryland from an apparent suicide, just as the Justice Department was about to file criminal charges against him for the attacks, the Los Angeles Times has learned.

Bruce E. Ivins, 62, who for the last 18 years worked at the government’s elite biodefense research laboratories at Ft. Detrick, Md., had been informed of his impending prosecution, said people familiar with Ivins, his suspicious death and the FBI investigation.

Maybe it just is this simple: a man with a God complex playing with anthrax. But if he sent the letters, wouldn’t the writing be identifiable? And why, if all this evidence was so compelling, was there all the effort to pin it on the other (fall) guy?

The sad thing is that, after 8 years of this fucking bullshit, after Monica Goodling-gate, after Alberto Gonzalez, after the complete and illegal politicization of law enforcement and the Justice Department, after lie after lie coming from this administration, we cannot take a fucking thing they say at face value.

If Bush can lie about wiretaps needing warrants, and Rove can order a Democratic Governor prosecuted on flimsy charges and imprisoned beyond any sensible period of time on those charges, who is to say these people can’t pin a crime on a nobody and drive him to suicide. Or even worse.

Add McMakingShitUp: Think Progress reminds us that McCain said at the time, on national televsion, that the anthrax came from Iraq:

MCCAIN: I think we’re doing fine …. I think we’ll do fine. The second phase — if I could just make one, very quickly — the second phase is Iraq. There is some indication, and I don’t have the conclusions, but some of this anthrax may — and I emphasize may — have come from Iraq.

And he’s trying to sell us on trusting his leadership? Our own ISG confirmed that Iraq had no anthrax or other bioweapons program at the time. Was there ever even a shred of evidence to support McCain’s allegation?

Glenn Greenwald reports, you decide.

Astronaut Edgar Martin says “I Want to Believe”:

Moon-walker claims alien contact cover-up

FORMER NASA astronaut and moon-walker Dr Edgar Mitchell - a veteran of the Apollo 14 mission - has stunningly claimed aliens exist.
And he says extra-terrestrials have visited Earth on several occasions - but the alien contact has been repeatedly covered up by governments for six decades.

Dr Mitchell, 77, said during a radio interview that sources at the space agency who had had contact with aliens described the beings as ‘little people who look strange to us.’

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“I happen to have been privileged enough to be in on the fact that we’ve been visited on this planet and the UFO phenomena is real,” Dr Mitchell said.

“It’s been well covered up by all our governments for the last 60 years or so, but slowly it’s leaked out and some of us have been privileged to have been briefed on some of it.

“I’ve been in military and intelligence circles, who know that beneath the surface of what has been public knowledge, yes - we have been visited. Reading the papers recently, it’s been happening quite a bit.”

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Something tells me this fucking thing doesn’t work.

Really