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I would eliminate Hatfill as a suspect if he details where he was in the 72 hours before the anthrax letters were mailed.

NO INNOCENT PERSON would have a 72 hour alibi. Innocent people do not have specific memories and records of where they were when a crime was committed unless they are creatures of habit who always do exactly the same things with the same people. The first thing I would do to a person with a pat alibi is give them 10 other time and date periods to alibi. If they can't cover other times as well as the crime time, it is likely they are guilty. It is very rare for an innocent person to have much of an alibi. Why should he... He didn't even know he would need one.

The first thing a real criminal does is try to create an alibi. Only the real criminal knows he will need an iron clad alibi for a long period of time. Innocent people ususally have big gaps that they can't account for with witnesses, logs or records.

Innocent people almost never have an alibi for that long a time period..... But you knew that.

A person smart enough to do this kind of science would not leave clues to some town or school near where he lived. A smart scientists would use a name or site common to millions. A smart criminal knows he will leave clues. So he or she purposely leaves tons of fake clues that point at thousands or millions of people.

A Smart criminal does not try to leave zero clues. He tries to leave dozens or hundreds of clues pointing in all directions. Then the law can't tell real clues from fake clues.

Do you think that the perp would have had some plan, to distribute the stuff ... but then, to take advantage of the surprise attacks upon the United States, the perp chose to insert his or her plan onto the stage?

How would that sudden demand for action, have upset the plan?

Then in haste, how might a plan for distributing "false clues" have not gone well?

Might the strike upon the National Enquirer have been the original !_SENSATION_! in the plan ... but then September 11th was "too big to pass up?"

Or was the strike upon the members of Congress to be the !_SENSATION_! ?

A strike upon the members of Congress alone, might have been covered-up. But something was needed to make sure that the public eye would be caught.

Perhaps that something which would ensure that the public eye would be captured, was the strike on the National Enquirer?

So the perp's actions were somehow committed to a strike upon the National Enquirer in spite of the readily available stage of September 11th?

So does Hatfill have an alibi for the periods in question? Your response doesn't say he does nor does it say he doesn't. It only points to a conclusion that only real criminals have alibis, but because Hatfill is not a criminal, he doesn't have an alibi. He could, at least, give some generalized answers to where he was during the dates in question, for example, "I went to work on those days" or "I was off job-hunting in ________" or "I was taking a few vacation days and just puttered around the apartment."

NO INNOCENT PERSON would have a 72 hour alibi. Innocent people do not have specific memories and records of where they were when a crime was committed...

Nonsense. Mainly, you don't have to rely on your memory, if you're given a chance. Maybe you were on vacation or a business trip. Maybe a glance at your monthly credit card bill would remind you that it was a weekend and you were shopping all day long at the Outlet Mall. Maybe you can make the rounds of your favorite chat sites that remind you that you were working late that night and goofing around on the internet.

I will grant that you probably can't nail down an entire 72-hour period via credit card recipts, long-distance phone calls, dates you wrote checks to pay your bills, random internet postings, but it certainly is not impossible for the combination to preclude certain suspected activities.