I will offer several reasons why things lean toward him or are made to lean toward him: First, he did have a draft on his home computer of a novel...strangely enough...about a bioterror attack. Not enough to convict anyone...but it makes you look hard at the guy.
Second...while not generally known amongst the public...at least around the experts in the field...Hatfill commissioned a 1999 report on the risk of anthrax being sent via the mail. Again, it makes the investigative team look more closely at you (while you may be totally innocent).
Third....those dang FBI Bloodhounds with scents from the anthrax letters "went crazy" during the search of Hatfill's apartment (this came from Newsweek...so we have to be careful in suggesting it is 100 percent true or only 50 percent true (the Newsweek variation of the week).
Fouth....strangely enough...Hatfill lives in the same state as the mailbox where several of the anthrax letters were mailed. Here...guilt by mailbox association...which just isn't good enough to convict....but makes you the target of investigation.
Fifth....the return address on an anthrax envelope was the name of a school in Zimbabwe...strangely enough...where Hatfill once lived. This is the most odd part of the entire script here. A really creative writer...would just pull a city off the Atlas...but maybe the quilty party just isn't that creative...who knows?
So while everyone wants to give Hatfield the complete bill of innocence....the FBI has to keep looking at him because of the stupid evenidence at hand. If not Hatfield...then again...the offender knew a vast amount of history on him and was ready to link him to the whole episode...to keep the FBI from ever diving into lesser options. This is like linking drugs and Anne Nichole Smith together in the same sentence...you can't avoid it....but then the final cause might not have been drugs.
Pepsi,Hatfill did not live in NJ. As far as I know,he never did.
As to people knowing a great deal about Hatfill, one need look no further than certain "activists" within the Federation of American Scientists,who considered him persona non grata. (He had worked in South Africa during the apartheid regime,had a permit to carry and sometimes made it obvious he carried, refused to go along with fashionable ideas,etc.,etc.)
I have my own cast of suspects in mind,and, if had just a tiny bit more,would forward their names to the FBI;but,since I lack that "tiny bit", I'd rather let someone else solve the case than impugn someone's reputation.
(As you can see, I'd never make it as a journalist !)
"First, he did have a draft on his home computer of a novel...strangely enough...about a bioterror attack."
Don't frame it as a secret. He filed it publicly with the copyright agency. Not a surprise he would write such a thing, there were other books like that at the time.
"Second...while not generally known amongst the public...at least around the experts in the field...Hatfill commissioned a 1999 report on the risk of anthrax being sent via the mail."
Again framed as a secret. It is widely known. That was his job, and "anthrax" letters were flying around at the time. It would be more suspicious if he/govt. didn't take such an interest.
"Third....those dang FBI Bloodhounds with scents from the anthrax letters "went crazy" during the search of Hatfill's apartment"
They were not bloodhounds. They were not FBI. They were not the usual dogs FBI in the area use. They went to California to get "ringers", dogs using pseudo-science to frame people. How does one get a "scent" off a months old, and sterilized envelope? Dog experts publicly denounced these ringers.
"Fouth....strangely enough...Hatfill lives in the same state as the mailbox where several of the anthrax letters were mailed."
Nope.
"Fifth....the return address on an anthrax envelope was the name of a school in Zimbabwe...strangely enough...where Hatfill once lived. This is the most odd part of the entire script here. A really creative writer...would just pull a city off the Atlas...but maybe the quilty party just isn't that creative...who knows?"
Nope. The writer used a semblance of the name of a school in the USA zip code on the letters.
Did you even bother to take the time to read the post at all? The dogs you're talking about are completely unreliable!
Either you're incredibly stubborn, or you're a spokesmouth for the F.B.I. or the New York Times or something.
What you must always keep in mind is that letter mail (in particular) is collected in "flat trays" (large postal trays made of a corrugated plastic material).
These trays are placed under letter drops in lobbies, and in the bottoms of street collection boxes.
When the mail has been sufficiently aged (that's an insider's postal joke btw) the tray full of mail will be moved to a processing area, or sent to another facility for processing.
In some parts of the country major mailers send out thousands of mail trays filled with mail every day. In other parts of the country thousands of mail trays arrive, get empty, and just stack up.
Consequently USPS spends a lot of money and time sending empty trays from areas of surplus to places where trays are needed.
Single piece rate First Class letter mail is highly subject to misrouting in today's postal system.
The anthrax letters were obviously misrouted (except for the one with a Florida address), left in some otherwise empty equipment, and shipped to New Jersey (where they have a lot of major mailers). This phenomenon explains how the letters got to where they were found, why they arrived AFTER the 9/11 attack, and what the address information on the letters means.
All of it taken together means it's more likely that Barbara Hatch Rosenburg had something to do with the attack than did Dr. Hatfill.