Posted on 08/13/2002 7:17:56 PM PDT by mrustow
I too, never forgot the first victim. I can not forget all the "amazing coincidences" in Florida. I too, never thought it was a lone, white American.
Why the railroading of a man who understands fully the danger of bio/chemical weapons ..... it can't be sheer incompetence...can it?
To that thought, add the fact that every article quoting Barbara Hatch Rosenberg describes her as a "microbiologist".
She's not.
She is a professor of environmental science at SUNY's performing arts branch. She does no research and, indeed, no longer teaches. Instead, she is a full-time activist for the FAS anti-biowarfare committee.
One phone call or one visit to a website, would put a reporter in touch with the facts of Rosenberg's "credentials". So far, none in the mainstream have found the time, or the dime, to make the call.
It's standard 'pack journalism' that's been going on for years. No one bothers to do any original reporting; it's easier just to rewrite the competition, propagating any mistakes, lies or misinterpretations in the process. It's scary but it's the current journalistic standard.
The aforementioned Barbara Hatch Rosenberg. Hatfill is the fourth scientist she has fingered (she changes her story with some frequency).
The others had either AMRIID ties, CIA connections or a Battelle Institute (a purported CIA contractor) link.
Her agenda is quite clear. To force the US into signing the UN's Anti-Biological Warfare treaty, apparently by implicating the military/intelligence community responsible for our defense against biowarfare.
No one (other than mad dog liberals) who really followed the situation thought Hatfill was guilty, so that's not a surprise. The surprise is how well Hatfill has come across, and how bad the FBI looks.
So now we have three possibilities:
1. Was he a willing and very convincing participant in a diversion?
2. Was the FBI simply looking for a temporary scapegoat, and willing to trample on this guy to get it?
3. Or was the FBI simply stupid, arrogant, and out of control?
Personally, I sure hope its #1.
In other words, it's no wonder the FBI finds them so useful.
Pardon, but Oswald shot a president, and a cop, and was a sniveling, wife beating peice of commie clymer kissing leftist scum. Please don't compare him to a man who may well be completely innocent!
1. Was he a willing and very convincing participant in a diversion?
2. Was the FBI simply looking for a temporary scapegoat, and willing to trample on this guy to get it?
3. Or was the FBI simply stupid, arrogant, and out of control?
I think the most plausible model is that Amerithrax was always conceived of as a vehicle for a PR stall while Bush figured out a response to the blackmail, but the FBI agents assigned to it aren't in the loop. They were probably told by Mueller, "Just between you and me, boys, we think this one's from one of our own people," and then set loose. Given the small size of the operation and the poor quality of the agents put on it, this was a nice safe way to put up a public front of an investigation that would never stray into any dangerous territory. Lots of people have reacted to the investigation with bafflement, but nobody's been smart enough to figure out that it is the way it is for a reason.
While I'm feeling a lot more comfortable that I understand how the Amerithrax part of this charade works, I still don't have a handle on how much Hatfill knows. I think that the goofballs at Amerithrax have been suckered by Nuthatch et al, and they really are under delusions that Hatfill is their man and, in consequence, they really have been Jewell-ing him, in their characteristically half-assed way.
But does Hatfill understand the bigger picture, and is his public indignation genuine? Of that, I'm not sure. It certainly looks like the crisis in the "lone nut" theory has been engineered to coincide nicely with the Iraq buzz, and I doubt that is a coincidence. But does that mean Hatfill is in on it? Not necessarily. I am confident that Bush would intervene if things started straying from his own timetable. Everything is being orchestrated -- it's too important not to be -- but that doesn't mean everything is being micromanaged, or that all the parties are in cahoots. Steering inputs are coming from the top as needed to bring this thing home. And home is probably not too far away now.
Important point.
I still see more real evidence that sleepers/Middle Easterners in the US did the anthrax. There are just too many reports of pharmacists and doctors before and after 9/11 saying they saw signs of anthrax sores on the arms, hands, and legs of the terrorists and their suspected associates. We know there is a terrorist support group of MEs up there in NJ. Why is the FBI dismissing/ignoring the actual reports of the doctors and pharmacists? I trust their reports more than some FBI dog that barked.
I have never seen a basis for the FBI's starting proposition - that it is a white male American scientist with militia ties.
My theory is we have an FBI team leader who worked too long in the field targeting US white male militia guys, an FBI leader who is just too smart for his own good. While such a bureaucrat may be highly effective he is not necessarily objective. Especially so considering the so-called assistance he received from university-based US scientists with many agendas of their own. In this case it put the investigation on the wrong path from the beginning.....and has kept it there despite the evidence. Now the FBI cannot admit to being so very very wrong, so they have to lynch a white male scientist with strong "right" views.
Hatfill could shut the FBI and the media down cold by just interjecting the name of Richard Jewell and calling the FBI what they have become, Jackbooted NAZI's that leaks like a siv and investigate like the Keystone Cops.
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