The lynchpin is the dead National Enquirer employee in Florida, whose wife was a landlady for a couple of the 9/11 terrorists.
If Hatfill was the poisoner, what’s his connection to the dead man, and why send him the first anthrax letter?
I posit that this fellow was curious, may have even asked questions that alarmed Atta, and that an anthrax letter was sent when all the others were mailed from New Jersey. Frankly, I believe it was not part of their original plan and is the strongest evidence yet pointing to an Al Qu’aeda connection.
Have you noticed how the dead man’s wife seems to have never been publicly interviewed? I’ve not once read any interview she has given to a journalist. It would be just like the FBI to tell her to keep her mouth shut so they can divert attention away from the truth: terrorists hit us with anthrax and the government was caught lacking.
I don’t think there is any evidence, known or unknown, that Stevens was asking questions.
His wife was interviewed publicly, as I vaguely recall, on the occasion of the 5 year anniversary. She stridently complained about not being briefed, her perception that there had been a lack of progress etc. She has a lawsuit pending alleging that the USG was negligent in allowing the Ames strain to be accessed. It has been long subject to a stay. Her attorney has not been responsive to any inquiries I’ve made.
I believe her contact with the public, or lack of contract, is controlled by her attorney for litigation reasons, and not by the government, which is her adversary in litigation.
Stevens apparently was just unlucky enough to handle the letter, as was the elderly man who worked in the mailroom, who came very close to dying.
I agree with your point about Hatfill having no connection to the Enquirer, while the hijackers, at least indirectly, did.