FBI Uses Gestapo Tactics Against Dr. Hatfill (Richard Jewell II?)

NewsMax.Com ^ | August 26, 2002 | Christopher Ruddy

[PJ-Comix]

In some ways, I am more frightened by the FBI than the terrorists.

I am frightened by what Phil Brennan calls the "crucifixion of Steven Hatfill."

I am frightened that a U.S. citizen can be tried and convicted, his life and reputation destroyed, by a coordinated effort of the FBI without due process of law.

I am frightened that there has been no censure from the federal government and, in fact, the Justice Department has acquiesced to the way the bureau has behaved in its apparent extrajudicial witch-hunt against Mr. Hatfill.

In America, we don't try people by innuendo and smears. If the FBI has evidence, it should present that evidence to a grand jury for indictment.

But since it apparently does not have the evidence, the FBI needs to divert attention from the fact it failed to protect America from 9-11 and the anthrax attacks, to justify its wild-goose-chase investigation into the anthrax attacks.

If this was just an isolated incident, it could be excused. But there was the case of Richard Jewell and a laundry list of abuses by the FBI over the past 10 years.

And since no one high up in the bureau was held responsible for the witch-hunt of Jewell, why not scapegoat Hatfill?

Since no one in the bureau was ever held accountable for the catastrophic failure of intelligence by the FBI (not to mention the CIA), why should they change anything they do?

I am frightened by what has been happening in this country – even more so in the wake of 9-11, where we have seen almost no accountability.

Shouldn't we all be alarmed when a senior aide to Sen. Grassley tells the New York Times that senators and congressmen are unwilling to vigorously question the FBI about its handling of 9-11 because they are afraid they will be blackmailed and smeared by the bureau?

This looks more like Nazi Germany than America.

The FBI is not suppose to behave like the Gestapo, but so far the treatment of Mr. Hatfill has all the hallmarks of a Gestapo operation. I, on the other hand, presume Mr. Hatfill to be innocent until evidence is presented to the contrary.

"Evidence" does not consist of barking dogs, a fictional claim repeated now by major media that Hatfill knew of a Greendale School in Zimbabwe (no such school ever existed in Zimbabwe) or that Mr. Hatfill is a political conservative who may be too patriotic for the Clintonistas that still run the FBI.

As Phil Brennan notes in a powerful series on NewsMax, the available evidence all points to the anthrax attacks emanating from foreign sources.

Consider:

• Fifteen of the 19 terrorists had a Florida connection; the first anthrax attacks took place at the American Media headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla. Two of the terrorists rented their apartments using a broker married to one of American Media's tabloid editors.

• Ringleader Atta lived within a few miles of American Media. He also made inquiries about using crop dusters to disseminate chemicals.

• A Florida doctor says that he treated one known terrorist for cutaneous anthrax. A pharmacist says Atta and another Arab suffered from red hands, a symptom of handling anthrax.

• Several of the anthrax letters were mailed from Trenton, N.J. - not far from Northeast New Jersey, another haven for Arab terrorists.

• The anthrax spores were new, not old, undercutting innuendo Mr. Hatfill stole the spores from an Army lab over a decade ago.

• The highly weaponized anthrax (remember when the feds were claiming that the anthrax was not weaponized?) was made in several batches, each more potent than the last, and all were made in sophisticated labs unavailable to Hatfill.

Of course, there are many details that show links to terrorists, Iraq or other foreign enemies.

But the FBI believes its dogs and profilers. I remember FBI profilers with Richard Jewell and the Atlanta bombing. The FBI profilers said the bomber was a loner who wanted to show how much a do-gooder he was by saving lives before and after the explosion. Jewell was the perfect culprit.

Once again, the FBI profilers are saying the anthrax killer is a loner who is actually a do-gooder - he sent the anthrax to warn Americans about the threat of bioweapons.

Perhaps the FBI is wrong again, and Mr. Hatfill is not its "person of interest."

Perhaps the Hatfill case, like the Jewell case, demonstrates how all of our civil liberties are threatened by law enforcement agencies unaccountable to anyone.

[PJ-Comix]

Anyone here still believe the info given us by the Feds about the OKC bombing, the Vince Foster "suicide," and the TWA 800 crash?

[Asclepius]

Once again, the FBI profilers are saying the anthrax killer is a loner who is actually a do-gooder - he sent the anthrax to warn Americans about the threat of bioweapons.

A loner who can produce or procure weapons grade anthrax.

That's quite a loner. Super-human, one might say. A few loners like that in uniform and an army would be redundant.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

I'm curious why NewsMax, FoxNews and Dr. Hatfill have yet to mention the woman who first pointed the FBI in Hatill's direction, Dr. Barbara Rosenberg...left-wing activist and no friend of the Bush admin. One source says she sat in on the original meeting with Daschle and Gephardt after the anthrax attacks...fingered Hatfill...has been speaking to US and British press, various groups and left-wing talk radio. A child could find this info on the web.

The FBI "friends" of Daschle-Rosenberg are probably the same guys who tried to pin this on the "right-wing" from the beginning, imh tinfoil-headed opinion.

[PJ-Comix]

She is trying to take the blame for the anthrax attacks from the terrorists and to pin it on a "rightwing" native American. Makes one wonder just how much info the Feds are sitting on that pointed at Middle Easterners being involved in the OKC bombing.

[Mohammed El-Shahawi]

If this doesn't get resolved soon, it could lead to the end of Bush's government. I'm certain that there are many ardent Bush supporters that have very serious concerns about what is going on here. I for one am giving the government the benefit of the doubt for the time being. I'm convinced they know exactly who sent the anthrax, and they (understandably) can't tell us yet.
But if this abuse of Hatfill continues for too much longer, then I'm going to change my mind and conclude that Hatfill is REALLY all they've got. And if he is, that's scary. He is so clearly innocent it's not funny.

[cksharks]

Glad to know you are an insider to the invistigation. Bill cclintooon said he was innocent.oooops John Gotti said he wass innocent. oooops Susan McDogule said she was innocent and got away with it because she was on t.v. every day telling a bunch of idiots she was innocent. OJ said he was innocent and got away with it because he was on tv telling a bunch of idiots he was innocent. This man made himself public,not the FBI.

[Commander8]

This is what happens when you let profiling replace good old-fashioned detective work.

[Tacis]

The FBI identified, tracked and hunted down Richard Jewel as the bomber of the Atlanta Olympics. So, he was the guy. But, the agents involved got promotions, bonuses and awards for the tracking and hunting down aspects. Then, they went to Waco where they were able to murder Christians, then to OKC where they watched a truck they knew about blow up an ATF depot they didn't know about, and then they went to Washington where they aided and abetted a criminal regime and turned over 1000s of files to criminal politicians.

You gotta figure that, in the absence of any change in culture, the employees of the same rogue outfit figure that they'll get comparable prizes for the hunting and tracking parts here. Never mattered before that they got the wrong guy, why should it matter now? Can anyone recall anything that the FBI has done right in the past 25 years?

[cynicom]

Ashcroft is in charge, he should put up or shut up. The more I see of the man, the more I see of a bumbling idiot.

[cynicom]

The coverup artist from the FBI in the Ruby Ridge fiasco is involved with Hatfill.

[eastforker]

This is what I see.After listening to Hatfill this weekend,I thought I heard him say that he would eventualy be arrested,but not for the anthrax.Now,why would the FBI be so intent on hatfill,and why did he come out so brilliantly this weekend.He IS being pressured,no doubt,as if the FBI was pushing him to reveal something totaly differant.I for one,once upon a time was involved in a fed investigation and I will tell you they can be ruthless,thank goodness I had nothing to hide but they can be relentless.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Makes one wonder just how much info the Feds are sitting on that pointed at Middle Easterners being involved in the OKC bombing.

Leftist civil service career people all over the place....sigh.

We have staked the whole future of American civilization... We have staked the future of all our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind.... to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God."
- James Madison

[Fizzie]

you got that right, cyni.

This from the Washington Post:

U.S. Report Faulted Anthrax Prober
FBI Official in Charge of Case Avoided Discipline Over Ruby Ridge Study

By Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, August 24, 2002; Page A02



The official in charge of the FBI's anthrax probe was accused of misconduct and recommended for discipline for his role in a flawed review of the deadly Ruby Ridge standoff, but a Justice Department official later concluded that punishment was unwarranted, according to newly revealed information about the case.

Van A. Harp, a 32-year FBI veteran who now heads the bureau's Washington field office, allegedly "committed misconduct" by helping to prepare an incomplete report on the 1992 Ruby Ridge siege that had the effect of protecting high-level FBI officials, according to a confidential 1999 report by the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility.
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Can't post any more of the article, because Jim Robinson has enough problems without having to deal with us posting full articles from the Post.

[YaYa123]

You might enjoy this:

http://www.redflagsweekly.com/nassanthrax3.html

[aristeides]

The head of the FBI's anthrax investigation, Van Harp, was officially reprimanded for writing a whitewash report on Ruby Ridge, until the charges were lifted by a Clintonista Assistant AG.

[aristeides]

Makes one wonder just how much info the Feds are sitting on that pointed at Middle Easterners being involved in the OKC bombing.

And, for that matter, in the Olympic Park bombings (did anybody mention Richard Jewell?) Notice how those bombings involved the same kind of bomb that was just set off at Hebrew University in Jerusalem (nail bomb in a backpack)?

[muawiyah]

None of the letters are known to have been mailed in New Jersey. They were postmarked in New Jersey, but there was no sign of any contamination being found in any mail collection box or receptacle in the area.

This is a very important distinction. Single piece rate First-Class Mail is frequently mishandled. It can get cancelled anywhere.

This is the stuff for which the Postal Service has devised that famous statement we have all seen: "Mail found in supposedly empty equipment". For many years they had an Item Number assigned to it.

Only the FBI believes any of the letters were mailed in New Jersey. They have a particularly difficult time accounting for the attack in Florida where three different postal facilities were contaminated, so it's only now, 11 months later, that they are bothering to get around to checking out Florida.

[muawiyah]

The FBI made Dr. Hatfill "public" when it conducted a raid on his apartment.

Then they raided his girlfriend's place. Then they raided him again. Then they raided his parents.

You, sir, are an FBI apologist to the degree that you have misrepresented the truth as it has been reported here at FreeRepublic.

Have you worked for the FBI long, or do you just mislead them.

[Marianne]

BTTT

[cynicom]

sharks....

I had the misfortune of having to work with the FBI, on occasions, over a period of many years. Some individuals were acceptable. As a group they were arrogant, obnoxious and cared nothing for individual rights. On paper and in public they were constitutional champions, behind the scenes they were our Gestapo.