Posted on 09/29/2005 9:58:09 AM PDT by Gene Vidocq
Letter to the editor:
The FBI Is Still on the Anthrax Trail
Thursday, September 29, 2005
The Sept. 22 editorial "The Anthrax Metaphor" may have misled readers on the progress of one of the largest, most complex investigations ever conducted by law enforcement.
First, the men and women of the FBI and the Postal Inspection Service assigned to this case remain fully committed to bringing the perpetrator(s) of these murderous attacks to justice. While, as the editorial pointed out, we have not yet made arrests in the case, the investigators continue to go the extra mile in pursuit of every lead. They, and I, believe this case will be solved.
Second, while not well known to the public, the scientific advances gained from this investigation are unprecedented and have greatly strengthened our government's ability to prepare for -- and prevent -- biological attacks. Since the first anthrax mailing, investigators have worked with scientists to narrow the focus of this investigation.
Despite the frustrations that come with any complex investigation, the FBI's investigators never stop thinking about the innocent victims of these attacks, and they have never slowed their efforts to solve this case or to protect the public safety.
MICHAEL A. MASON
Assistant Director in Charge
Washington Field Office
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Washington
("The Anthrax Metaphor" http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1489324/posts )
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
I'll probqably see this on "Cold Case Files" about 10 years from now.
Anthrax spores remain viable as long as this case will ...
Mason is the fellow who took over the investigation after the "Science" magazine article came out. Change in command just a random coincidence?
Ping!
Around the time that we find Osama's Pakistani spider-hole maybe.
The above statement is a flat-out lie.
like the f.b.i. investigation of randy weaver, the Murrah building, the N.Y. jetliner shoot down, etc. etc. etc.
Don't have a lot of confidence in the f.b.i.
How do you know this?
Really? Like most people, all I know about it is what I read. Do you have behind the scenes knowledge on this one?
"They don't mention that they've steadfastly ignored the obvious suspects (foreign terrorists) and focused instead exclusively on a domestic source."
"The above statement is a flat-out lie."
http://elandslide.org/view.cfm?id=7918
"A former government microbiologist, who was interviewed in recent days by the FBI, said agents focused their questioning on the logistics of how someone with access to the U.S. Army's biodefense labs at Fort Detrick, Md., might carry out the scheme. The microbiologist, who once worked at Fort Detrick, said the agents did not indicate if they had evidence that such an incident had occurred."
One of many examples. Check out the WSJ on this.
I seem to recall that when that newspaper got hit in FLA, it was either right in the neighborhood of one of the "pilot trainess" or somehow othewise connected. Nonetheless, the FBI spent their time draining a pond in New England.
"Don't have a lot of confidence in the f.b.i."
Now why would that be? After all, "the FBI always gets their man", even if they must turn over every rock at the ends of the earth.
-February 11, 1998
FBI says Rudolph sighting was a false alarm
Web posted at: 10:50 p.m. EST (0350 GMT)
MURPHY, North Carolina (CNN)
-- After a false lead sent federal agents speeding to north Georgia, the search for a witness to the bombing of an Alabama clinic where abortions are performed shifted back to the woods where his truck was found.
The search for Eric Robert Rudolph resumed in the soggy woods south of Murphy where his 1989 gray Nissan pickup was found last weekend. The truck was towed Tuesday to Birmingham, Alabama, where experts were to go over every inch of the vehicle.
Authorities say Rudolph, a 31-year-old carpenter, is wanted as a material witness in the January 29 explosion at the New Woman All Women Clinic in Birmingham. The explosion killed an off-duty police officer working as a security guard and critically injured a nurse. Rudolph's pickup was seen in the area.
Agents searched the North Carolina woods Wednesday after a reported sighting of Rudolph at a north Georgia convenience store Tuesday turned out to be an apparent case of mistaken identity, the FBI said.
A clerk at a Circle K store in Blairsville, Georgia, about 30 miles from Murphy, phoned police Tuesday to say she saw a man who appeared to be Rudolph get into a Volkswagen Jetta driven by a woman.
The FBI said the woman to whom the car was registered was interviewed, and it was determined that she could not have been in Blairsville or have picked up Rudolph.
Initially, authorities gave the sighting more credibility than other reports of sightings because the clerk called just as investigators with bloodhounds arrived at the Georgia store, sources said. The dogs were following Rudolph's scent, picked up from his abandoned pickup truck.
A law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity revealed Wednesday that bomb-sniffing dogs detected possible explosive residue in the pickup truck. The official said the dogs also reacted to possible residue found in a mini-warehouse near Murphy that Rudolph once rented.
Rudolph was last seen renting a video in Murphy on the night after the bombing.
- May. 31, 2003
Atlanta Olympic bombing suspect arrested
MURPHY, North Carolina (CNN) -- Olympic bombing suspect Eric Robert Rudolph -- wanted in attacks that killed two people and injured more than 100 in the Southeast -- was arrested early Saturday in western North Carolina and faces a Monday morning court date.
Rudolph has been charged in the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia; 1997 bombings at a gay nightclub and a clinic that performed abortions in the Atlanta area; and a bombing at a clinic in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1998.
If convicted, he could face the death penalty. The decision would be up to U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft.
Murphy police Officer Jeffrey Scott Postell, who joined the department on his 21st birthday in July, told reporters that he spotted Rudolph at about 4 a.m. behind a Save-a-Lot grocery store during a routine patrol. He said he thought he'd come across a possible burglary in progress.
Postell called for backup and was assisted by Cherokee County sheriff's deputies.
Deputy Sean Mathews assisted with the arrest...."
For Immediate Release
May 31, 2003 Washington D.C.
U.S. Department of Justice
STATEMENT OF ATTORNEY GENERAL JOHN ASHCROFT REGARDING THE ARREST OF ERIC ROBERT RUDOLPH:
Attorney General John Ashcroft released the following statement regarding the capture of Eric Robert Rudolph, one of the FBI's 10 most wanted fugitives. Rudolph is charged with bombing attacks that killed 2 people and injured more than 150 others:
"Today, Eric Robert Rudolph, the most notorious American fugitive on the FBI's 'Most Wanted' list has been captured and will face American justice. American law enforcement's unyielding efforts to capture Eric Robert Rudolph have been rewarded. Working with law enforcement nationwide, the FBI always gets their man. This sends a clear message that we will never cease in our efforts to hunt down all terrorists, foreign or domestic, and stop them from harming the innocent.
great, and as to the third guy seen with the murrah bombers?
and the guy the f.b.i. let go to jail for 2 decades to protect their snitch who did the crime?
the jet shot down off Long Island, who ya gonna believe the f.b.i. or your lying eyes?
Waco?
I can go on here.
Yeah, the f.b.i., real proud of these babosos.
I wonder where Whitey Bulger is these days.
http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/local/12726074.htm
McKinney's panel drums up more Sept. 11 conspiracy theories
JEFFREY McMURRAY
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Rep. Cynthia McKinney was involved Friday in a new series of conspiracy theories concerning the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, but this time she let others do most of the talking.
The Georgia Democrat hosted a forum at the Congressional Black Caucus' legislative conference entitled, "The 9/11 Omission: What the Commission Got Wrong." Most of her panelists had written books on the attacks, some of which accuse the Bush administration of a coverup if not actually being coconspirators alongside al Qaeda.
McKinney, who four years ago made controversial remarks on a radio talk show that Bush had prior warning of the attacks and profited by them, was mostly silent this time. However, she nodded vigorously as many of the panelists spoke and concluded one panel by signaling her agreement with some of the charges.
"We had four significant failures on one day of a trillion-dollar military and intelligence infrastructure," McKinney said. "I don't think that is certainly a possible thing to have happened. It's quite a coincidence, if it is."
One of the speakers, David Ray Griffin, labeled as "a 571-page lie" a report produced by an independent commission that investigated the events leading up to the attacks. Griffin's most recent book, "The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions," suggest there must have been pre-planted explosives inside the World Trade Center to topple the steel towers after the airplanes hit.
Another author, Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, suggested a Pentagon initiative may have been complicit in the anthrax attacks on Washington several months after Sept. 11, 2001. She also suggested a former government worker the FBI has targeted for years may indeed have been involved.
Former Army scientist Steven Hatfill was once labeled as a "person of interest" in the investigation, but Rosenberg refused to say whether she meant him because of legal concerns.
I visited your web site. You're really some kind of piece of work, that's for sure. Left-wing doesn't even begin to cover it!
Presumably, then, you are aware of some aspect of the investigation which has not been publicized. Would you care to share?
That's really interesting, Jef. All along I was thinking I'm the award-winning, internationally-known, public health authority, Dr. Leonard G. Horowitz.
Whereas, I thought 
you are either Allen "AJ" The Trashman Weberman 
....or, John Shelley....I've seen your websites also.... ...or, Luigi "Anthrax" Warren: Programmer - Biologist et al. 
I'm really glad you've straightened things out.
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