Let us know when Chertoff replies.
Ed,
You are right to bring up Lincoln. Roscoe Howard, U.S. Attorney for Washington, DC, about Amerithrax: “You always need a break. You just do, whether its John Wilkes Booth breaking his leg or Kaczynskis brother coming forward.
Now as for my position that the December 20, 2001 ABC News on which you framed your theory around, do we know yet whether Alexis Debat, the ABC News terrorism/ national security consultant/pathological fraudster and fabulist, advised or influenced Brian Ross on the story yet? Mueller told Senators the next day that the story was totally botched and the FBI insisted the next day that the story was groundless.
While it is true that they were polygraphing former Battelle employees, the Wisconsin fellow had long since been abandoned as a lead. You should contact the FBI spokesperson he quotes in the article and ask the person if the ABC story was sound.