FBI - STILL SEARCHING FOR THE ANTHRAX MAN

Eye Spy Magazine ^ | 3/20/06 | Eye Spy

[TrebleRebel]

FBI - STILL SEARCHING FOR THE ANTHRAX MAN The fourth anniversary has come and gone since Bob Stevens, a British picture editor for American Media Inc., who had settled in Florida, became the first of five victims after coming into contact with Ames - a weapons grade strain of anthrax. At the time, the FBI were fairly convinced terrorism was involved, though the bureaus’ opinion has changed often and many officers remain openminded. The public could not have imagined that four years later, no-one has been charged with the crime of sending anthrax-laden envelopes in the post. The death of Mr Stevens sparked a huge international manhunt, and while the anthrax source has been traced, the identity of the killer dubbed the ‘anthrax man’ remains as elusive as Jack the Ripper. Eye Spy provides an update on the case.

[wideminded]

I have tried to get the FBI interested.

Based on the the recent news from the Moussaoui trial, etc. this may have been a hopeless endeavour.

[muawiyah]

The former postal employee was working (on his own) as message-central for the Blind Sheikh's gang. You probably noticed that his lawyer has also been prosecuted and jailed. She shared a stage with Cindy Sheehan along the way.

The Islamofascist/Leftwingnut axis is almost indistinguishable from one end to the other.

[Shermy]

"And yes, the FBI has given up."

For sure? Would make sense. If they solve the case careers and prestige will disappear via the Hatfill law suit. Unsolved, the semblance of "guilt" hangs over Hatfill, FBI careers and prestige preserved.

[Fury]

I have tried to get the FBI interested. I have presented this to 4 different offices, the CIA, local police, the CDC, etc etc.

Have you considered Congressman Curt Weldon? He seems pretty committed to the truth in such matters.

[Shermy]

"The idea that the anthrax had to have been stolen directly from USAMRIID is bogus"

Yes, but it is a meme essential to the Frame Hatfill Project.

[Battle Axe]

I tried MY congressman. I made a video of the information as my friends tell me that I come across better than my writing. I talked to him when he was here in town.
Told him I would send him this. Then I sent it.

Never heard a word.
Follow up phone calls were dead ends.
When all this started, I turned to Miss Peach, my Viking Kitty. I said, "In which lifetime will this get solved and just who is going to do it?"

Miss Peach meowed and wolfed down an entire tray of Sheeba.

For those of you following this from day one, I have always been here telling the very same account of what I saw.

I thought I got lucky with the Postal Inspectors.

Do you have a way to get it to Weldon directly?

How can I get an appointment with him??

[Fury]

Do you have a way to get it to Weldon directly?

How can I get an appointment with him??

I don't know him personally, but start at http://curtweldon.house.gov/

I really think that Weldon might be interested given his digging on Able Danger and how there were problems in the 90's.

[Battle Axe]

Wondering what the bottom line is for the Hatfill decoy?

Do you think they did this to shield their incompetence?
Someone really thought he did it?
A stopgap measure to shush the MSM, Flaming Liberals, etc.

In the end I say that the Hatfill caper was a mistake.
And yet most Americans on the street think he did it.

[Semper Paratus]

They'll find Whitey Bulger before they solve this case, which means never.

[Shermy]

I think the FBI was open minded.

Until the BHR meeting with the Senate staffers. The staffers, juiced up on the NYTimes pieces and other innuendo pressured the FBI or Justice Department to go after Hatfill. The Justice dept. gave the staffers and the MSM what they wanted, Project Hatfill.

I take care in saying the "FBI." There's other forces. A pic tells a thousand words and I remember the Ashcroft news conference which was a virtual reality perp walk. Behind him were his assistant, smiling, confident with their success. I thought maybe three is something to this Hatfill stuff. Turns out there wasn't.

They were probably duped by the burgeoning MSM/NYTimes full court press on Hatfill.

[Lady Heron]

That strain of Anthrax was given to other labs!!! So your line of thought is useless.

[jpl]

Muawiyah nailed it correctly earlier on with regards to the intense pressure the Senate was generating on the FBI to get a perp, due to Leahy and Daschle being direct targets. This pressure no doubt led to them being both lazy and desperate, a bad combination for serious investigators.

Whenever somebody accuses someone else of something really serious (like being a mass murderer for example) on the basis of little or no hard evidence, extreme skepticism is always warranted, because what's usually going on is that the person has a strong personal vendetta against the "perp" being fingered. Steven Hatfill is the type of person who pretty much embodies everything that someone like Barbara Hatch Rosenberg despises.

It's even more sad when you consider that the upper levels of the FBI are usually so skeptical that they'll often ignore the advice of their own field agents. They're going to come to regret the day that they listened to that kook.

[Battle Axe]

Everyone keeps focusing on the dissemination of the anthrax from USAMRIID. That is pretty well documented and we know that the strain that was mailed could not have come from the shipment to England, (Porter Down) because of the genetic makeup. It is most like the original held by USAMRIID.

However, it is a mixture of this genotype 62 and genotype 62 with a mutation. They will find the culprit lab, when they find that combination.

The possibility exists that the mutation occurred after it was stolen. But if they can find that combination it is a smoking gun.

After the fact, the govt. called in all the samples of all the anthrax and tested them. That is all that existed. One place had destroyed all of theirs.....guess or read post #19.

What most do NOT focus on is where was this sent before it went to USAMRIID? And that one place and the place that destroyed their collection are one in the same.

[TruthNtegrity]

At least this doesn't mention how they are "still" going after Hatfill.

I feel so sorry for that man. They ruined his career, his life, his reputation. As someone once said, "Where do you go to get your reputation back?"

Meanwhile, those of who know stuff, wait for the people who can do more about it, to get around to doing something.

[LambSlave]

That strain of Anthrax was given to other labs!!! So your line of thought is useless.

I am weary of responding to posts; I know the STRAIN was given out, but never the weaponized form or the details of the process of how it is manufactured, this is what is actually used to ID the origin of the weaponized agent; the fact that USAMRID is THE focus of the investigation indicates that it is where the compromise occured.

[LambSlave]

After the fact, the govt. called in all the samples of all the anthrax and tested them. That is all that existed. One place had destroyed all of theirs.....guess or read post #19.

This is an even more plausible hypothesis than mine... actually it explains a lot of things, but also leaves some questions about the focus of the investigation.

[jpl]

If you can believe it, back in the day, some of the trolls and poseurs around here actually said that he deserved what was happening to him, because he lied on his resume! As though that somehow justifies being falsely accused of mass murder.

In a just world, Hatfill would be working right now and Nic Kristof would be on the begging line, but in the Alice in Wonderland world that we're in, Hatfill has to file three lawsuits and Kristof gets nominated for Pulitzer Prizes! Disgusting, isn't it?

[Battle Axe]

Yes it does. It brings into question if the Hatfill deal was a purposely created decoy. Was Hatfill even in on it?? Being a good soldier, shouldering the blame for the time being.

But now I don't think so. I have personally contacted his lawyers and told them of my time at ISU. I said....this is an Erle Stanley Gardner moment!! but they were reluctant to bring it up as the kind of litigation they were in was the wrong venue. Civil vs. criminal. Something like that.

It still does make one wonder. Untilllllllll that is, until this FBI agent gets on the stand and says that the higher ups in WASH. DC squashed one of the best chances they ever had to save the 3000 plus of our fellow countrymen.

What the *^%$^&* are they doing? The ones that squashed the Z. Moussoui info should be fired. Period.

[Battle Axe]

ping

[LambSlave]

I never thought Hatfill was involved; they were looking for a scapegoat... he might have been a decoy, but then who or what are they protecting? I don't want to think about that too much, I'm paranoid enough... :-)

I am not surprised at all with the Moussoui (sp?) situation; business as usual in the federal beauracracy. Note I don't necessarily blame the "higher ups"; the way the beauracracy is run, there are a thousand ways for them to go to jail because of our PC culture... they see hundreds of leads like this a week, and must ask themselves, "Do we feel strongly enough about this hunch to risk going to prison for violation of several executive orders/ sections of the USC or let it ride?" The answer is usually to let it ride. Executive orders and the U.S. Code are just end-runs around the Constitution IMO-- government power should be strictly limited to Constitutional powers, and the only way to change that should be through an amendment.