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To: jpl
Geneticists can track specific lines of bacteria
within individual strains. The mutation rate for
anthrax is well-understood so, for example, it is
possible to take two samples and determine the how
many generations separate them from a common ancestor.

The FBI clearly has narrowed their investigation to
Ft Detrick and to one individual, Dr Hatfield, in
particular. It seems unlikely that the FBI would
have done this if they did not have some way to rule
out the hundreds of other people world-wide who had
access the the Ames strain. The FBI has not articulated
any other reason for focusing as they have.

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FF
83 posted on 10/23/2004 8:44:21 AM PDT by Fred Fighter (Don't trust me! Read for yourself.)
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To: Fred Fighter
The FBI clearly has narrowed their investigation to Ft Detrick and to one individual, Dr Hatfield, in particular. It seems unlikely that the FBI would have done this if they did not have some way to rule out the hundreds of other people world-wide who had access the the Ames strain. The FBI has not articulated any other reason for focusing as they have.

You're relatively new here so I'm trying to be polite, but it's pretty clear you have no idea what you're talking about. For starters, the guy's name is Hatfill, not Hatfield. Second of all, if you were really following the case closely you would know that they've been investigating him for almost three years now, and not only can they not bring an indictment on him, he's in the process of suing the government and they're doing everything they can to stall the process. And if you know anything whatsoever about crime and law enforcement, you know that mass murderers aren't usually in the habit of suing investigators.

The FBI is not all-powerful my friend, they actually make mistakes sometimes, and they've made a huge one here in this case by persecuting this guy who doesn't even have any formal scientific training with anthrax (or bacteria for that matter). They made the mistake of listening to some left-wing reporters and journalists with an apparent political axe to grind, and the day is going to come eventually when they're going to have to come clean and admit that they really screwed this up.

If you're going to survive here at Free Republic, take my advice and try not to believe everything you read in the newspapers, because people who do that are fools.

85 posted on 10/23/2004 11:50:55 AM PDT by jpl (How do you ask someone to be the next innocent civilian to die from a "nuisance"?)
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