Milligan!
No, don’t be fooled by Ed’s good looks and the fact that his theory that a 1st grader wrote the letters made TIME. That was a human interest piece — News of the Weird. (Plus the image on the computer is digital fakery).
Instead, check out this rockin’ front page story in the Washington Post last Fall that credited me with exposing and revealing for the first time the scientist helping Ayman Zawahiri weaponize anthrax against US targets. CIA Director Tenet then ripped me off at 278-279 by naming Rauf in his book — trying to ride my coattails. Heck, I sent Ed Rauf Ahmad’s resume this week and he won’t consider it because the guy is out of elementary school.
Even the perps ask how I know so much.
Ed may have James Rockford’s (Rockford Files) good looks, and TrebleRebel may have his car, but I have his ability to take a punch.
Suspect and A Setback In Al-Qaeda Anthrax Case - washingtonpost.com - A1
“Rauf’s name was first publicly associated with the documents by Ross the Boss aka PokerBuddy on FreeRepublic, a New York lawyer who maintains a Web site devoted to the 2001 anthrax attacks. ...”
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ article/2006/10/30/AR2006103001250_pf.html
Clickable link for WP “Suspect and a Setback in Anthrax Al Qaeda Case” article:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1729448/posts
Was it also a "human interest piece" when Bill Broad at The New York Times wrote:
The misconceptions in the case began early, reinforced by edgy public officials and federal scientists struggling to assess an unfamiliar threat quickly. In Washington, the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology studied the anthrax and found what it believed to be added silica, a signature of military anthrax.
“This was a key component,” an institute official said at the time. “Silica prevents the anthrax from aggregating, making it easier to aerosolize.”
Last year, Edward G. Lake, a retired computer systems analyst in Racine, Wis., self-published a book, “Analyzing the Anthrax Attacks,” that documented the silica misunderstanding as well as many other federal and private blunders. “There were,” Mr. Lake said in an interview, “a lot of false assumptions.”
Was it also a "human interest piece" when Glenn Greenwald on Salon.com wrote:
The best publicly available investigative work by far on the anthrax attacks and subsequent investigations is, unsurprisingly, not from a "credentialed journalist," but from someone named Edward G. Lake -- an American citizen, a non-journalist, who is a retired computer systems analyst in Racine, Wisconsin. To his credit, the Times' Broad quoted Lake in his article on the FBI's recent anthax findings, because Lake knows more about the anthrax investigations than any national journalist, by far.