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It took almost 3 years to discover this?
None of this passes the common sense logic test. The agencies and administration must have a good reason for witholding where this anthrax came from.
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Sounds to me like a bogus leak put out there as the set-up for the next six month delay the government is going to ask the judges for.
Hmm, maybe priming the pump for an "October Surprise"?
Iraq and Anthrax?
Maybe they finally found a match to the "signature" in some lab., say in Iraq?
Iraq is out of the way now, so it wasn't Iraq. Afghanistan is out of the way too, so it wasn't the Afghans.
Could be Syrian. Could be North Korean. Could be Iranian.
But Bush's strategy of knocking off one at a time rather than taking on two established governments at once seems to be the prudent way to handle this matter.
It does raise the question of which nation will be the next to fall to our wrath, though.
I have a friend who was very involved in bio warfare at high levels he has long maintained it probably came from Iraq. Also the way it was dispersed (particles were made to float) is a key bit of evidence ....he says it could only have been done in a well equiped lab.
Also my conjecture is the people (Mohamed Atta etc.) who brought us 9/11 had the stuff ready to go when they attacked (someone else mailed itdays later)...If so is that not definitive proof of a 9/11 Iraq connection?
Maybe not, maybe they learned a long time ago. Will the judge ask? If it did take 3 years, why so long? My position is that they weren't testing it for what it was, but for what they hoped it be, perhaps with the disinformative persuasion of helpful outsiders, and the FBI only got their kick in the pants in the Nov. 2003 Science article - the date of the FBI's claim of "new" testings, ie, tests they negelected to do before.
It's a disgraceful scandal, hope someone spills the beans in the future.
BTW, yes, IMO, this leak is a preemptive "strike" to make the judge think there is validity to this "new' claim from the mere authority of it's retelling in the media. I'm sure of this because the Shane article was planted today in just one other publication: The South Florida Sun-Sentinel, the same place as the one other anthrax law suit, the AMI one. Coplete scam, expect more delays unless Hatfill's lawyers explain the delays, and pose why the heck is another delay needed due to scientific tests.
Will the judge ask?
Good question. Here's his info:
Judge Reggie B. Walton assumed his position as a United States District Judge for the District of Columbia on October 29, 2001, after being nominated to the position by President George W. Bush and confirmed by the United States Senate. Judge Walton previously served as an Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia from 1981 to 1989 and 1991 to 2001, having been appointed to that position by Presidents Ronald Reagan in 1981 and George H. W. Bush in 1991. While serving on the Superior Court, Judge Walton was the court's Presiding Judge of the Family Division, Presiding Judge of the Domestic Violence Unit and Deputy Presiding Judge of the Criminal Division. Between 1989 and 1991, Judge Walton served as President George H. W. Bush's Associate Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy in the Executive Office of the President and as President Bush's Senior White House Advisor for Crime.
Ever the cynical optimist, I wonder if this could in any way be a good thing--that they really are in a critical stage of an investigation. Southack pretty much summed up the possibilty of foreign perps, and I guess it's pretty reasonable that we'd want to wait till we're ready to go before we i.d. them.
OTOH what if they're actually investigating domestic perps or highly placed domestic perps in collusion with foreign ones?
Yeah I know. Not likely any such would go anywhere even if true, but look back at the thread backhoe was kind enough to link in #32--look at rubbertramp's #59 post: I think his most dangerous association was his cover up of Hillary's Iraqgate connections to that Kennemetal firm...remember, all that commerce with people we were at war with, facilitating bioterrorism.
I haven't thought about Kennemetal or Iraqgate (GWI) in years! However, I have thought often about anthrax and who might have used it long before 9/11. (Vics being Russell Welsh and Ron Miller.)
The cynic can't believe anybody in this administration would ever prosecute certain perps, but I keep remembering the satisfaction, if not enjoyment, I thought I heard in Ashcroft's voice when he busted Gorelick publically for her "wall" which facilitated 9/11, whatever her intent may have been.
I'm just thinking of a few very quiet investigations/prosecutions that have been going on below the radar of national media: Philadelphia, Enron (very little reported, but it's going on) plus the Ron Brown's Body has a bullet in the head stuff that's coming back into focus again. What if this is a real investigation that encompasses the 1997 possible anthrax poisoning of Ron Miller and the late '80s anthrax poisoningdiagnosis for Russell Welsh.
FBI - Famous, But Incompetent.
These people are morons. Where were 12 FBI agents on 9/11? Staking out a brothel in New Orleans.
Perhaps we got a match from a former Iraqi biowar facility.
I wonder if that signature read Lt. Col. Philip Zack?