Our 2001 Anthrax Suspect Fit Familiar Patterns

"After the Department of Justice last month formally closed its probe of the 2001 anthrax attacks, the FBI released the first batch of documents detailing the years-long investigation that ended with officials concluding that Bruce Ivins, a government scientist who committed suicide in July 2008, was responsible for the mailings that killed five victims.

Despite being an FBI target, Ivins was often forthcoming about the details of his strange obsessions and private life. For example,...when agents executed search warrants in late-2007, an FBI supervisor asked Ivins if he was worried about those raids. Ivins said he was, noting that he did things a 'middle age man should not do,' adding that his actions would 'not be acceptable to most people.' He then noted that agents searching his basement would find a 'bag of material that he uses to "cross-dress,"' according to an interview report. During a January 2008 meeting with agents, Ivins described his bizarre decades-long 'obsession' with the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, and detailed how he broke into two KKG chapters to steal ritual books used by the group.

In a July 2008 e-mail, Ivins wrote that 'Dick Cheney scares me. The Patriot Act is so unconstitutional it's not even funny.' He added, 'I'm voting for Obama!'"

-- The Smoking Gun