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

Toogood Reports ^ | 14 August 2002 | Nicholas Stix

[mrustow]

FYI

[aristeides]

Typical. The left, for the most part, wasn't unhappy about Richard Jewell, the Branch Davidians, or Randy Weaver either.

[mrustow]

At newsmax.com, Phil Brennan, who used to work at AMI, and whose son still does, has started a blockbuster series that goes back to the Bob Stevens case:

FBI and Anthrax: Another TWA 800 in the Making?

FBI Ignored Letter in Anthrax Probe

[aristeides]

Interesting final two paragraphs in that second article to which you provided a link:

Moreover, the FBI, which dismissed the letter out of hand and denied it had any significance, for reasons not disclosed asked AMI not to go into detail about it with the media or anyone else. The whole thing just vanished from the investigative radar screen.

The Newsweek report that the Lopez letter arrived Sept. 4th, seven days before the events of the terrorist hijacking attacks, would have assumed enormous significance had the letter been kept. It would seem to point the finger of guilt directly at the 9-11 hijackers, most of whom lurked nearby until leaving for their deadly rendezvous with the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

So the FBI was anxious to divert our attention from that letter way back when. I think we can guess why

[My Favorite Headache]

Bump

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Thanks for the ping. Good article.

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Democracy NOW!, Barbara Rosenfeld, guest at protest of Bush decision to NOT join international ban on bioweapons.

• Dr. Barbara Rosenberg, professor at State University of New York and chairman of the Federation of American Scientists working group on Biological Weapons.
• Dr. Jeanne Guillemin, Senior Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Security Studies Program and author of Anthrax: The Investigation of a Deadly Outbreak (University of California Press, 1999, just out in paperback).
• Dr. Susan Wright, historian of science at the University of Michigan and Director of the North-South Alliance on Biological Warfare and Disarmament.

Prof. Rosenberg has been a busy, busy woman since the anthrax attacks. Check out the organizations quoting Barbara Rosenberg, Google search page. Why didn't the press? They started this attack on Dr. Hatfill by quoting Prof. Rosenberg.. eager, as usual to point the blame away from themselves and their partisan co-conspirators of spin.

[Neever]

I am continually baffled that no one has bothered to research the area around Franklin Park, NJ for the location of the infamous 'Greendale School.' While a Greendale School never, to my knowledge, existed in the area, a 'Greenbrook School' was located right on Route 27 in the Franklin Park, NJ area. It was a small structure, mid-thirties design, and it was in a dilapidated state and was not being used as little as two years ago. It was recently renovated and the name was changed and is now, I believe, a pre-K program which is privately owned.


The location of the former Greenbrook school was significant. Route 27 runs parallel to Route 1 - a highly travelled roadway. Directly off Route 1, visible from the highway and also parallel to the school itself, is the New Jersey Islamic Center. Putting 2 and 2 together, it would make sense to me that the sender of the Anthrax letters had a connection to this Mosque. Thus, while traveling around the area in search of a return address, he/she noticed the Greenbrook School off the adjacent Route 27. When the return address was placed on the envelopes, the perpetrator obviously either forgot the original name of the school or simply changed it to put investigators off the scent. If I were investigating this story, I would start with that Islamic Center.


The Islamic Center of New Jersey was also the subject of minor controversy soon after 9/11. A lone protestor stood in front of it with a sign asking, "where's your flag?" The Center was not, of course, flying an American flag before or even soon after the massacre of 9/11. After a newspaper article, however, the Center draped an American flag over its front. (Incidentally, the flag was draped improperly.) The flag still hangs there, tattered and worn. Many people are dismayed that the Center never erected a flagpole for the purpose of displaying Old Glory.


So, while investigators and reporters scramble to make connections to this Green'dale' school, they have overlooked the obvious.

[aristeides]

The Zip Code of that mosque on Rte. 1 is precisely the Zip Code in the return address of the anthrax letters. The president of the board of the mosque is a Middle Eastern doctor who has an office in Hamilton Square next door to the building with the office of the accountant there who got cutaneous anthrax.

[Fred Mertz]

Your two comments in #67 and #68 are more than interesting.

[Nita Nupress]

The Zip Code of that mosque on Rte. 1 is precisely the Zip Code in the return address of the anthrax letters. The president of the board of the mosque is a Middle Eastern doctor who has an office in Hamilton Square next door to the building with the office of the accountant there who got cutaneous anthrax.

Forgive me for asking (I haven't been here much lately), but has this been documented sufficiently? Is this a recent discovery or something that's been well-researched?

Is this something that everyone here knows now except Nita?

[mrustow]

Sounds like the "six degrees of separation" theory of Greendale. Using this method, the media could tie just about anyone they wanted to a Greendale or Greendale School.

That's classic! But didn't you know: everything's connected to everything else.

[okie01]

"Should we take everything else FAS says (like their nuclear arsenal estimates) as also biased?"

I don't know. What do they say...???

[mrustow]

mainstream media these days does not have the patience to do the research for a well thought out article. it is much easier to report rumors and innuendos and carville snippets than it is to get to the truth.

Incredibly, these are the guys who are always warning their audience, ""Don't trust anything you read on the Internet."

i do not think that the fbi is making a mistake. i strongly suspect that it is following a plethora of leads that we are not aware of. the media, for all the reasons noted above, are picking on one lead in the massive thread of leaves.

Here's where we part. The FBI appears to me to be IGNORING a plethora of leads, and "picking on one lead in the massive thread of leaves."

[B4Ranch]

I think the constant repeating of "Greendale School" is just the kind of thing that Hatfield needs to prove that he is not guilty. It shows the investigators, media and FBI, have their heads up their butts.

If Hatfield is as successful as Jewell, the FBI will become known as the F'n Blundering Idiots and the American public will lose even more respect for them.

[exit82]

Thank you for alerting me to these articles. Excellent information!

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the heads up!

[The Great Satan]

I think the constant repeating of "Greendale School" is just the kind of thing that Hatfield needs to prove that he is not guilty.

From the latest story in the Washington Post, Evidence Lacking as Probe of Scientist in Anthrax Scare Intensifies:

"Some of the information that initially aroused suspicion about Hatfill looks more innocuous on closer inspection."

"No grand jury has begun hearing evidence, according to people close to the investigation, and interviews with Hatfill have yielded little."

"Clawson described Hatfill's social circle as conservative intelligence officials, military officers and defense contractors, most of them gun enthusiasts who get together for target practice and skeet shooting, as well as parties."

[eno_]

That's amazing!

My theory is that Iraq's connection to anthrax will, if anything, be revealed after we invade - and maybe never. I am starting to think that widespread knowledge that it was Al Quaida using Iraq-supplied anthrax would scare too many people here.

[eno_]

The short answer to that is Yes.

Some of the stuff on their Web site is well researched, but there are plenty of nut jobs like Barbara Rosenberg who are only there to bash the U.S. She is the true face of an organization that habitually misrepresents itself.