Expert: Anthrax Suspect I.D.'d

The Times (New Jersey Online) ^ | February 19th, 2002 | Joseph Dee

[OldFriend]

Perfect example for what is going on in our Universities. Blah blah, government bad, academics good, blah blah, I know but can't tell you. My suspicions are all that are needed, just trust me, believe me, blah blah, government bad....blah blah

[LarryLied]

Sounds like Barbara Rosenburg is related to Julius and Ethel.

Barbara Hatch Rosenberg
Published on September 5, 2001
The Baltimore Sun

PURCHASE, N.Y. - Once again, with critical global interests at stake, the Bush administration has blocked action by the rest of the world - this time on a vital treaty to monitor the ban on biological weapons. . .

To avoid another publicity fiasco like the one that followed its rejection of the Kyoto Protocol on global warming, the White House announced that the U.S. delegation would remain after rejecting the biological weapons treaty until the negotiating session disbanded in order to prevent other nations from reaching a biological weapons agreement among themselves. The reasons given for rejecting the treaty are disingenuous and intended for a public audience that lacks sufficient technical information to evaluate them. . .

Although preparations for limiting or responding to a biological attack are important, we can't afford to turn down any measure that would contribute to prevention. Unilateral actions alone won't do it. Refusing to join the rest of the world may turn out to be a costly U.S. mistake.

[ImpBill]

The left has been wanting to hang this on a disturbed "right wing nut" since the beginning. What better suspect than a "mad right wing scientist" who was involved in all sorts of James Bond scientific experiments before he was terminated by the politics of Clinton/D'Asch_Hole/etal.?

Just another "lets build a case supporting our hypothesis" routine that unfortunately both the left and right extremes in this country engage in all the time.

Tin Foil Hat time from the left is all this is.

[Dales]

That is my guess, and was my guess way back then. If they had a ton, I would not have anticipated anthrax mailings continuing for a longer period of time, however. I would have anticipated the batch of mailings they/she/he did to be much more widespread. All at once.

[concerned about politics]

She's winging it. "I heard from a source", "I assume", "I guess", "maybe", "could it be?", "I feel", "is".....so she must know everything, aye?
If she knows so much, why not just tell us who she thinks the guy is, huh?

[Alas Babylon!]

"They make no bones about it," Rosenberg replied. "On many occasions they've argued that rules should be for the bad guys, not the good guys."

Actually, this makes perfect sense to me.

[beckett]

If she really wanted to blow this thing open she would have named names. Her reluctance to do so means that her charges should be taken with a grain of salt, IMHO.

[Darth Dan]

It's perfectly clear Lee Harvey Oswald is the person she didn't name. Stupid lone nuts...(/sarcasm) :)

[marshmallow]

For many of the good citizens of FR, it will not matter one iota what the FBI says or who is finally indicted for this crime.

Life is not worth living without a good conspiracy theory to hold on to and many folks have already made up their minds. It was the Muslims.

[maestro]

"He had reason for travel to Florida, New Jersey and the United Kingdom........"

[maestro]

Kimdom?

[bvw]

If you ever do come to NJ, please do take a tour of Princeton. Do visit the Woodrow Wilson School and do talk to some of the students and teachers there. Then come back and talk about conspiracy.

[maestro]

Ping!

Add to the Anthrax Index!

[white trash redneck]

I thought everybody knew it was a right wing wacko.<\sarcasm>

[ARCADIA]

Or he intended to frighten not kill. (The letters alerted the recipient that they contained anthrax and told to recipient to take antibiotics) In this case, someone who saw the deaths may have just stopped.

[DainBramage]

Arkansas State Police Investigator Russell Welch contracted a case of anthrax (tests showed military grade) through the mail.

He beleived it came in padded envelopes that he had sent out ,that were returned to him later torn open.

Makes you wonder.

[Revolting cat!]

"There are a number of insiders -- government insiders -- who know people in the anthrax field who have a common suspect," Rosenberg said.

Sorry, can't trust nobody who don't know their basic English grammar. "There are a number"? There are one number? Pitiful.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

limited supply

This is exactly the point that a number of us here on FR were making during the height of the scaremongering -- and we were flamed wildly because we weren't wearing enough tin foil to satisfy those who were proclaiming that the "end had come" or that "the terrorists were just waitng for further instructions, or waiting till we attacked Afghanistan, or waiting until Venus, Saturn and Jupiter aligned".

Of course the supply is limited -- how much of this stuff can you obtain at any price??? From the wild scaremongering that was going on you'd have thought these guys had a fleet of tanker trucks full of the stuff.

[bvw]

Okay, let me put this a different way. Why was Rosenberg speaking at the Woodrow Wilson School, and why was her speech reported by the Trenton Times, given that many speek, even on timely subjects, yet few get reported?

The Woodrow Wilson school is a prime advocate for world-wide family planning by the way, and the Trenton Times is as PC as any Jersey paper -- especially with regard to aborion issues.

Perhaps she does indeed have inside sources -- I'm just positing that for the sake of my next leap of logic, she, however, did say it.

Suppose, though those inside sources tell her that the anthrax mailer will never be caught -- why then, that gives her a freedom of expression few others enjoy. So she plays a particular song to a audience of "true-believers" and raises her own contact-book capital.

[pgkdan]

-- An advocate for the control of biological weapons who has been gathering information about last autumn's anthrax attacks said yesterday the Federal Bureau of Investigation has a strong hunch about who mailed the deadly letters.

But the FBI might be "dragging its feet" in pressing charges because the suspect is a former government scientist familiar with "secret activities that the government would not like to see disclosed," said Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, director of the Federation of American Scientists' Chemical and Biological Weapons Program.

Sounds to me like an advocate with an agenda to push. Truth be told, you need only read the bold line to know where she's coming from.