[lbo-talk] dead anthrax suspect's brother: "he can go to hell"

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Aug 1 12:14:25 PDT 2008


<http://gawker.com/5031899/brother-of-dead-anthrax-scientist-he-can-go-to-hell

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t's a late-breaking story, and CNN's American Morning clearly thought it had a big "get" — a live interview with the brother of Bruce Ivins, a federal biodefense researcher who killed himself as the government prepared to charge him in the anthrax mailings of late 2001. Host John Roberts was prepared, no doubt, to delicately question a grieving sibling — not for the increasingly surly conversation that ensued. Of course, it's hard to fault him for not having a followup question ready for statements like, "I'm a paratrooper." The logical reply is a bit insensitive: "Are you entirely sober?" Click the video icon to watch a distinctly bitter sort of grieving.



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