[EdLake]

This show has ALWAYS slanted their info to the left to accommodate their liberal agenda.

I think this is the first "60 Minutes" I've watched in decades. And I only watched the 13 minutes and 13 seconds about anthrax. So, I don't know what their political agenda is. I would assume it is "left-leaning". People who deal with facts instead of beliefs tend to be "left-leaning."

I have my own problems with the way the investigation ran under Ashcroft's DOJ, but for CBS News, the temptation is just too strong not to pinch him at the exclusion of all the other actors that were in play.

I agree. Ashcroft may have been totally incompetent, but he wasn't micro-managing the anthrax investigation. He was just responding to reporters' questions as any incompetent would -- by saying the wrong things.

Also the hound dogs reacting to Hatfill's apartment. No mention was made as to what type of scent the dogs were "keyed" on to begin with.

According to the Newsweek article, "Agents presented the canines with 'scent packs' lifted from anthrax-tainted letters mailed to Sens. Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy (long since decontaminated), hoping some faint, telltale trace of the perpetrator's smell still remained months after the fact."

But when one looks at the facts, it's clear that that is absolute nonsense. It was just a story made up by the FBI to cover up what they were really doing. As it says in my book and on my web site, the FACTS say that the FBI had lost their tail on Dr. Hatfill when he was driving from Louisiana back to Maryland. The FBI was using the dogs to find out where Dr. Hatfill had been during the time he'd been "missing". They began their search at the Denny's restaurant in Louisiana where they'd last seen him, they checked his storage locker in Florida, they checked to see if he'd visited with William Patrick III (the "other scientist" mentioned on "60 Minutes") and they probably checked other places we don't know about. Then they took the dogs to Dr. Hatfill's apartment so the dogs could "find" him. It helps the dogs stay motivated if they "find" what they have been looking for and are given a treat for doing so. The FBI probably used some T-shirt or underwear belonging to Hatfill as the source scent for the dogs.

Ed at www.anthraxinvestigation.com

[JerseyJohn61]

"People who deal with facts instead of beliefs tend to be
"left-leanong"."

Well I'll dwell in the subjective for a moment or two as
well.

It has been my experience to the opposite. That liberal
types tend more to highlight or overemphasize certain facts
within a situation at the expense all the facts within the
scenario.

The argument over tax rates and brakes are a perfect
example. The left claims that higher tax rates are needed
to offset the discrepancies between rich and poor. That
public entitlement will improve education, job training
and employment prospects.

The evident track record tell another story however. Higher
taxes discourage business and slows down the economy with
losses of jobs at the bottom of the economic rung.

Tax cuts encourage new business enterprise, stimulate
the economy and produce new job start ups across the
board.

The democrats' war on poverty has gone on for a number of
decades with only an increase in poverty rates to show for
it.

Liberals tend to be idealists that chase rainbows and
create bureaucracies as their solutions for the world's
woes.

Conservatives are a bit more planted in reality. They
create industry that strengthen our civilization and does
the most good for those who will strive for prosperity.
Mr. Lake, no matter how piously pure that we maybe believing ourselves to viewing the Anthrax case totally objectively, we all have a certain amount of color tinting to our eyeglasses....JJ61