Now Dr. Hatfill, of course, was not learning anything from the “leak.” Instead, the Brian Ross report talked about how the FBI was now going to re-interview certain former and current government officials in an attempt to narrow things to Dr. Hatfill. That served to tip off anyone interviewed after that January 9 report that the USG may have them under close surveillance.
As it turns out, it was Dr. Hatfill who was excluded. The FBI dropped their conspicuous surveillance of him later that year after virulent anthrax was found in Afghanistan at a Kabul residence pointed out by Hambali. The FBI then searched Kandahar and Kabul areas for stored anthrax — under a theory that anthrax stolen from Ft. Detrick (or a recipient of their Ames) was taken to Afghanistan. Director Mueller as to motive says: “Think 911, Think Oklahoma City.” The motive suggested by Mueller involves a hatred of US policy — not a desire to “sound the alarm” such as suggested by Ed Lake and Barbara Hatch Rosenberg and law professor Francis Boyle or JDO’s Weberman or various islamist publications.
The FBI’s hand was further forced when in mid-February 2003 upon the arrest of the blind sheik’s son (and KSM who was arrested in mid-February and not March 1 as claimed). They raided Ali’s townhouse and made numerous arrests and searches of his charity colleagues as part of something called OPERATION IMMINENT HORIZON.
Dr. Hatfill’s exhibits are a veritable motherlode of copious documentary evidence simultaneously establishing Dr. Hatfill’s innocence and the diligence the FBI showed in leaving no rock unturned. They include roughly about 30 more transcripts we haven’t had available to see — far more than Ed has uploaded from previous filings.
Of Dr. Hatfill’s exhibits, Exhibit 7, the deposition transcript of Dr. Hatfill’s friend Peck may shed a light on the strength of his alibi.
Exhibits 118-124 are a veritable gold mine of interrogatory responses and requests for admissions — though lawyerly evasion and objection usually requires you to look at your watch rather than ask opposing counsel what time it is.
Exhibits 128-130 are internal FBI memos from November and December 2001.
Exhibits 140-143, 147-48, 151, 154, 165-167 are emails, and emails are always cool.
Exhibit 182 contains the Troutman Sanders profile for D. Seikaly which is online.
Exhibits 201 are useful summaries titled “Disclosures By Identified Sources” and Exhibit 202 is titled “Disclosures By Unidentified Sources.”
Mr. Lake, if you email me your address I could send you a copy of the disk and you could upload what interests you.