A High-Tech Lynching: ABC News, The FBI, and The Greendale School Myth

Toogood Reports ^ | 14 August 2002 | Nicholas Stix

[mrustow]

See also:

Media Manufacture Cloud of Suspicion Over Hatfill

[Mohammed El-Shahawi]

This is clearly a very well researched article. It's amazing how all of these journalists blindly followed the non-existent "Greendale School" myth without question. No actually, it's not amazing. It's different than that. It's chilling.

[terilyn]

Great info mrustow, thanks!

[terilyn]

Sadly, it's typical.

[Steve Eisenberg]

This may or may not be a stupid comment but:

I think that the FBI, under pressure to make a maximum effort, probably assigned too many agents to the anthrax case. As a result, the people who should be looking at the big picture are instead distracted by management tasks such as the coordination of a massive team and running down inside leakers. It would have been better to assign a small tiger team of the FBI's best. As for leaks, a big team is bound to include a smart-alec or two who runs to the press.

It is right for the FBI to consider lots of people as suspects, but Hatfill sounds to me like a very long shot for having anything to do with the crime. There is nothing wrong with them looking at him and even searching his place -- the only thing wrong is the leaks.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Another sad part of this is that there will be plenty of public griping and, as usual, ABC and the FBI will face zero/zippo/nada/zilch/a big goose egg for accountability.

[Mohammed El-Shahawi]

There is clearly more than just leaks at work here. It wasn't the FBI who manufactured a "Greendale School" in Harrare. Someone, somewhere sat down and manufactured this. Then they passed it on the media, and the media blindly printed it. Not just once, but dozens of times.

Who was the person who started this, and what were their motivations?

[TLI]

Nice article, a real "Jewell" of factual research.

If the fedgov doesn't retract by the end of the week, I fully expect Hatfill/Glasberg to smoke `em.

 

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

The FBI looks bad on this investigation! Very Bad!!

The media is doing what they always do!

They are pursuing the leftist agenda!

[FormerLurker]

Sounds like Hatfill is being built up to be this era's Lee Harvey Oswald...

Great article, thanks for posting it.

[mrustow]

The author will surely appreciate your comments.

[mrustow]

Sure thing, terilyn.

[mrustow]

Well, I think the problem goes deeper than allocation of manpower. If the FBI brass insists on this disgruntled, domestic lone wolf theory, it doesn't matter who is on the investigative team. They won't solve the case, even if they want to.

[mrustow]

Another sad part of this is that there will be plenty of public griping and, as usual, ABC and the FBI will face zero/zippo/nada/zilch/a big goose egg for accountability.

I dunno. ABC may end up paying through the nose, and Bob Mueller may end up paying with his job.

[exit82]

Thanks for the very interesting article.

It seems to be forgotten that the first victim of anthrax mail in the US was a Florida man who worked for American Media. I always thought that, with the subsequent letters sent to the ABC,CBS and NBC American media outlets, that the terrorist who did this was confused as to what American media actually was.The terrorist was probably not an American. Also, Arab terrorist suspects had lived near, indeed rented from, the first man to die in the anthrax letters.

Also, the letters were definitely mailed in NJ. There was information back last October, even on FreeRepublic, that there was a Muslim scientist living in Trenton, NJ who was NOT being investigated. Perhaps a more astute Freeper can dig that information out.

The FBI has long since passed the time that it has any credibility and should be disbanded. No American should trust it after it was politicized by the Clinton Administration. It needs a complete overhaul, which we were promised, but that never seems to have happened. And it needs completely new leadership.

[mrustow]

For a "person of interest," see the link at #1, as well as:

Calling Agent Frank Black! Anthrax, Millennium, and the Dr. Strangelove of the American Left

Dr. Strangelove Strikes Again -- in Scotland! Hunting America's Most Notorious Anthrax Hoaxer

Dr. Strangelove Disarms America

[mrustow]

Nice article, a real "Jewell" of factual research.

If the fedgov doesn't retract by the end of the week, I fully expect Hatfill/Glasberg to smoke `em.

I hope you're right. In any event, Hatfill had nothing to lose.

[Travis McGee]

In previous articles, I advised Hatfill that if he did not soon go on the offensive, he might find himself sharing a cell with the likes of Jose Padilla, and might not be able to speak to his attorney, let alone the world.

Good advice.

[TLI]

I hope you're right. In any event, Hatfill had nothing to lose.

That's right, he doesn't.  And more and more Americans are switching on to the fact that they have nothing to lose and everything to preserve (their rights) by standing up to the jackboot tactics of fedgov judicial organizations and witch hunts by the media.

Word is gett'n round, they are from the fedgov and they ARE NOT here to help you.

[Travis McGee]

At least now it will be much harder to arrange to have him jump off a bridge or become depressed and shoot himself with an antique revolver in an isolated park.

Consider his press conference a vaccine for sudden Vincefosteritis.