“Director Mueller has explained that the reason Senators have not briefed is because of the fear that leaks will result in the flight of suspects and the intimidation of witnesses.”
Could you provide the URL for this alleged statement from Mueller - or is it just another of your imaginary quotes?
As I have told you before - the leaks made to the writer of the Science article did not come from senate staffers.
You were right. The forensics led in a beeline to the Alibek program and silica in fact was central to the correct analysis. So you and Gary get an A+ and so do stop hurling insults at the teacher, the principals and other pupils. Now that it has been laid out for you that you were right, you still are disagreeing — and assuming that when they said they didn’t see silica it means they were lying rather than just not seeing it because the silica was removed. Given the patent had not yet been published, Dr. Meselson would not even had reason to know of the method (beyond what other microbiologists like Henry were saying about repeated centrifugation being indicated).
Even when the facts are laid out totally plain, people are so caught up with their preconceptions that they are blind to them.
You have preconceived notions relating to DARPA contracting. Steve Morse was head of biological countermeasures and oversaw the work at GMU. Why don’t you ask him about these patents?
Yes, and as I said (with one typo but the meaning was clear) Director Mueller would have no less reason to be upset by the Science article regardless whether the agency or branch of the source — even if the leak came from a senior DOJ official.
And as for Ken being in an awkward position about silica being key to analysis, no duh. But that doesn’t mean he’s at fault. Or lying. The FBI did suspect him — they polygraphed him (along with 200 others).
Now I’ll get you the Mueller statement about the intimidation of witnesses. Now as for who we are talking about as being a murderous vengeful fanatic, it’s Ayman Zawahiri who has been responsible for the murder of hundreds of security officials a year. See recent history of Movement from the AQ spymaster that I posted on alt.security.terrorism a coup[le days ago. The same guy wrote at length about the Amerithrax investigation.
“Director Mueller has explained that the reason Senators have not briefed is because of the fear that leaks will result in the flight of suspects and the intimidation of witnesses.”
It wasn’t in the press conference in October 2005 he said that. That was when Director Mueller said that the FBI was pursuing all domestic and international leads. He said: “One cannot forget the Oklahoma City bombing. We have not forgotten the Oklahoma City bombing. One cannot forget 9/11. We have not forgotten 9/11.” “Mueller on Anthrax Probe” CBS News. (These motives involve a hatred of US policy — not a desire to “sound the alarm” as Ed imagines). That year, FBI agents visited Asia, Africa and Afghanistan in the course of the Amerithrax investigation.
Authorities had received information, for example, from at least one detainee at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, that there was an anthrax storage facility in the Kabul area. Amerithrax Agents checked the Kabul area in May 2004 but came up empty. Then in November 2004, on further information, agents had spent several weeks unsuccessfully searching an area in the Kandahar mountains, several hundred miles outside of Kabul.
Instead, I’m looking for Mueller’s December 6, 2006 testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee to see if that is where he said it — on CSPAN. I likely would have sent you and Mr. Lake a copy of any LEXIS NEXIS transcript, I believe, of his testimony.
The next month, Attorney General Gonzales told the Senate Judiciary Committee on January 18, 2007:
“Senator, Director Mueller, I believe, has offered to get the chairman a briefing. And we’re waiting to try to accommodate the chairman’s schedule to make that happen.
We understand the frustration and the concern that exists with respect to the length of time. This is a very complicated investigation. I know that the director is very committed to seeing it to some kind of conclusion in the relatively near future.”