Anthrax Probe Returns to Forest Close to Scientist's Former Home

fox ^ | 1/27/03

[knak]

FREDERICK, Md.

[blackdog]

If they find the anthrax person is a bug breeder from the defense community, they will whack him, as a trial would be a bit of a national security concern if you know what I mean. As I recall, there were quite a few scientists dying in some pretty strange ways two years back. Scientists with talent are brilliant, but usually not very smart.

[blackdog]

Not if you bring what you wanted to find in the first place......

[PoorMuttly]

Did they check under the birdbath ?

Just a thought.

[bonfire]

bingo.

[Shermy]

Milking a tip to the very end.

Maybe they didn't "finish" the scuba search last year because then they wouldn't have the opportunity to test out the nifty new ice-scuba gear or something.

[Shermy]

From Dec. 12:

ANTHRAX CLUES UNDERWATER? FBI Preparing to Search Park for Lab Equipment in Anthrax Probe

[blackdog]

The ice scuba gear was tested by ggovernment leo's last winter in Rio. They flew the FBI divers to Rio, brought in 700 tons of government spec ice on a C-130, and dumped it in the pool at the Rio Westin Hotel. After six weeks of testing, the new dive gear was found to be adequate, however additional tests will need to be done again soon, as the budget did not allow for overtime testing.

[The Great Satan]

I've a little experiment to suggest for all you amateur sleuths out there. Read on.

In his news conference last August, Dr. Hatfill told the story of how his live-in girlfriend had been traumatized in an interrogation by two FBI agents:

It is definitely not good to be the girlfriend of a person of interest. My girlfriend was locked inside an FBI car and hauled off to FBI headquarters and interrogated for hours, without once being told she has the right to leave any time she wished. Her requests for a lawyer were delayed and made difficult. Her purse, although not on the search warrant, was taken from her and its contents examined after the interrogation process while she was being driven back to her residence.

She was screamed at by FBI agents and told that the FBI had firm evidence that I had killed five innocent people. This was told to her by FBI agent Jennifer Grant and FBI agent Pamela Lane. Can you imagine that?

The FBI trumpets that I am not a suspect, and the woman I love is told the FBI -- told by the FBI that I am a murderer.

This is the life of a person of interest, Mr. Ashcroft. But that's not all. My girlfriend was told that she better take a polygraph examination and cooperate, or else. Her home checkbooks, computers, private papers and car were seized. As for her home, it was completely trashed, as is appropriate for the home of a girlfriend of a person of interest.

Some of her delicate pottery was smashed. The glass on a $3,000 painting was broken. This painting was wrapped in bubble wrap, by the way. Neatly stacked boxes awaiting shipment to her new home were ripped open, instead of opened with due regard to their contents.

Ladies and gentlemen, we have pictures of how FBI left this apartment, her apartment, which, at the time of the raid, was neatly prepared for a move to Louisiana, with all her belongings packed in nicely stacked boxes. This is one of the pictures.

I refuse to allow my girlfriend -- to this treatment, as the girlfriend of a person of interest. She is not here today. I love you. I will not state her name here. And I ask the news media, please, for common decency, if you know it, please leave her alone. She will not make a statement.

Hatfill's famous live-in girlfriend remains nameless and faceless to this day, interestingly enough. Meanwhile, the FBI has failed to empanel a grand jury to investigate Dr. Hatfill to this day, also interestingly enough. All of which might make a suspicious person wonder whether Dr. Hatfill and the FBI's Operation Amerithrax are really quite what they seem.

I suggest the following experiment to anyone who's following this story. Call up the FBI's Washington Field Office, home to Operation Amerithrax. The main number there is (202) 278-2000. Ask the receptionist to connect you to FBI Agent Pamela Lane. Then call them up again. Ask the receptionist to put you through to FBI Agent Jennifer Grant. After you've done that, try repeating the experiment, only call the main exchange of the Maryland Field Office. The number is (410) 265-8080.

Let me know what happens.

[The Great Satan]

Any amateur sleuths out there?

[bonfire]

Not having heard of these women until today, I am guessing that the phone operators would come up with zilch?

[The Great Satan]

Read the transcript from Hatfill's August press conference, which I excerpted above. Try the experiment. Let us all know what you find out. Then we can all get together and analyze the results.

[bonfire]

The exerpt you included sounded like a bad novel. My second reaction was that BOTH those names sound "made-up".

I'll let someone who thinks Hatfill is the "culprit" have the honors of calling the FBI. I don't want to spoil the fun!

[Sabertooth]

Any amateur sleuths out there?

Just professional amateurs.

[The Great Satan]

The exerpt you included sounded like a bad novel. My second reaction was that BOTH those names sound "made-up".

At last! Somebody who notices the obvious.

A propos of this, it is interesting to note that Dr. Hatfill is the author of an unpublished, Tom Clancy-esque thriller called Emergence. In Emergence, Saddam Hussein uses terrorist proxies to launch a clandestine biological attack on Washington, DC. At the end of the novel, Baghdad is vaporized by a US nuclear strike. It is also interesting to note that, according to the New York Times, Dr. Hatfill's social circle is heavily biased towards right-wing Pentagon brass, CIA types, not to mention, of course, senior figures in the US biodefense establishment.

Now, if perchance the story of the abused girlfriend is, in fact, a crude fabrication, it was clearly made with the blessing of Amerithrax, inasmuch as Dr. Hatfill named names before the whole world, produced pictures of a trashed apartment to a nationally televised press conference, all without a peep from the FBI. All of which might make you wonder what exactly is the real relationship between Amerithrax and Dr. Hatfill and, more fundamentally, what is Amerithrax, really?

[bonfire]

Hatfill pleads for his girlfriend to be left out of this. Wouldn't the media have gone beserk? Since when did the media ever respect anyone's privacy? Odd that we've never heard anything more about the gf. The "whole" story reeks of amateur hour. And I mean the WHOLE story.....Amerithrax on down. I get the impression, being a news junkie, that the media doesn't buy into the "Hatfill" scenario either. IF they report anything about him, it's almost half-hearted.
It also begs the question, is Hatfill in on this? He would almost have to be. My question is: How much $$ would it take to buy someone's reputation? If he is in on this, then he's a Hero.

[The Great Satan]

Your comments are right on the money, my friend. Right on the money.

[The Great Satan]

Perhaps we could get Howard Stern to try my experiment on the air? Tell him that Pamela Lane and Jennifer Grant are porn stars. (Is it my imagination, or do they sound like they might be porn stars?) He could tell the operator he's trying to find out if they do lesbian stuff, if he needs a pretext for calling.

[mikegi]

The names may sound made up but you can check whitepages.com and find several instances of each in Maryland alone:

1 PAMELA LANE, BALTIMORE MD -
2 PAMELA A LANE, PRINCE FREDERICK MD 50
3 PAMELA B LANE, JESSUP MD 32
4 PAMELA G LANE, DUNDALK MD 46
5 PAMELA M LANE, BALTIMORE MD 37
6 PAMELA R LANE, SILVER SPRING MD 44
7 PAMELA W LANE, BETHESDA MD 37

1 JENNIFER GRANT, OWINGS MD -
2 JENNIFER GRANT, HYATTSVILLE MD -
3 JENNIFER GRANT, BALTIMORE MD -
4 JENNIFER L GRANT, COLLEGE PARK MD 32
5 JENNIFER GRANT, BEL AIR MD 36

[The Great Satan]

Call up the FBI. Tell us what you find out.

[mikegi]

Call up the FBI. Tell us what you find out.

Oh, Great One, please spare me the lesson and tell me what you think is going on. All this "apropos this", "perchance", and "interesting to note" stuff makes you appear silly. A Sherlock Holmes wannabe. Have you already called the FBI or not?

Your post #34 reads like a discarded script for "24".