Posted on 06/25/2002 3:04:53 PM PDT by John H K
This was published on Feb 25. Follow LT's link for the article.
Hard to bame the FBI, they've been too busy hanging out in libraries and mosques and churches looking for suspects while NOT profiling.
The single greatest charge of the federal government is to protect the country from attack. Some of you are defending those invovled in the most abysmal failure of this responsibility ever in America's history.
I often surprise people when I suspend my lunatic rants and pretend that I'm sane and emotionally stable.
;^)
See following and watch for further announcements.
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"Is the FBI dragging its feet? I just don't know. And, if so, I don't know why," she said.
Infowars posts Wash Times article
An insider asking the same question that I asked. I guess you owe me an apology.
The researcher agreed to the search in hopes of removing himself from any possible suspicion, according to the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. It was unclear whether the researcher was a federal worker at Fort Detrick or a worker under contract with the Army base.
``This was a consensual search for which the only qualification was potential access to anthrax,'' the law enforcement official said. The official said the search was not unusual in the FBI's hunt for a suspect for last year's anthrax letter attacks.
Fort Detrick, which also is home to the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, has anthrax samples. The FBI is conducting voluntary lie detector tests at the base.
At the conclusion of the search, no arrests were made.
The search underscored the FBI's attempt to find a suspect in the deadly anthrax letter attacks last fall. Five people died in the attacks, and at least 13 others contracted and recovered from either the skin or respiratory form of the disease.
The investigation into who sent several anthrax-laced letters last year has produced few leads and some investigators acknowledge the trail is growing cold. The government has begun a strategy of focusing on possible sources of anthrax and casting a wide net, rather than identifying suspects from the few clues gained from the letters.
Lie detector tests and interviews are also being conducted at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah, where researchers have been developing a powdered form of anthrax for use in testing biological defense systems, military officials have said.
The Army said recently that small quantities of anthrax have routinely been produced at Dugway, and then shipped to the Army's biodefense center at Fort Detrick.
Since the attacks, security at Fort Detrick has come under fire.
One former researcher at the infectious-disease center there has said nothing would have prevented workers from removing deadly germs from the labs.
Yeah. Who's defending anybody? If you don't know who the specific researcher is who is targeted, and you don't have the evidence, then you don't know jack-sh*t.
You're a chronic bellyacher who, as someone else pointed out, would have been screaming about "violations of civil liberties" if the FBI had wrapped this up in January.
You don't know anything about law enforcement. Why the hell should anybody listen to you?
Very good point. Think we'll ever find out?
There was mention that Fort Detrick is a place where they have anthrax, and they use it in tests.
They also noted that all the anthrax researchers live in the area.
If someone called this a "raid", then they have never seen a real raid. This was a consensual search. The doctor let the FBI in! They took some stuff out to study at leisure.
Or is there some other news story concerning Fort Detrick that we should pay attention to?
Then, go read the link. Or continue being an ostrich. Your choice.
This country has been attacked by those within our borders. Since then, about a half a milion illegal immigrants have entered the country, the administration hasn't armed pilots yet, and the FBI seems to be dragging its feet (READ THE ARTICLE) on the anthrax investigation. No reason to complain, right? Or I could be like you and support the status quo that got us here!
If Atta was involved, he was probably experimenting with other chemical combos. He would have lacked the sophistication to produce anthrax of that grade. He or his contacts may have been in collusion with the American scientist, or the scientist could have been working independently.
I don't have a strong sense about any of it other than what I posted on the original anthrax threads months ago.
WTC? A country full of terrorist operatives that cant be found? how about the INS, that "lost" a group off of foriegners from the ship a few months ago?
or maybe the many instances of lost laptops by the fbi? or maybe the wide open borders?
or maybe all the warnings of arabs at flight schools?
or maybe the fact that it is easier to get a student visa, or pilots license than to purchase a firearm?
of course, this is all been reported.
According to CNN and NBC
there have been dozens of such searches.
Nothing suspicious has been found.
Does anyone remember our stolen nuclear secrets
No, Ft Detrick, and AMRAA/AMRIID/AMBRDL were among the probable sources for weapons grade anthrax, as was the probable source of an earlier mailed anthrax *mailbomb*.
And just as I can recall several instances of US nuclear secrets having been stolen over these last seven decades, from a variety of different research labs and educational and miklitary facilities, I recall that neither a single such location was targeted, nor did any of them fail to receive at least some penetration attempts.
As well as Plum Island, Pine Bluff and Porton Down.
They still beat you, didn't they?
If they did more investigating criminals and real terrorists instead of worrying about all the wrong things they might be able to salvage what's left of their sorry assed reputation.
It won't happen though. Too many "prior restraint" types, too many bureaucrats, to many idiots rifling around in other people's business when they shouldn't be, too many overly armed, under trained urban commando wannabes, too much corruption, too much John Ashcroft (gotta get spend a year and several million busting a dozen prostitutes in LA), too much John Ashcroft (gotta have access to everyone's electronic communications and financial), too much John Ashcroft (gotta monitor the entire internet), too much John Ashcroft (gotta be able to rob a private citizens home without even telling him), too much John Ashcroft (let's have prayer meetings at work).
It is nice however to see them once in a while investigate REAL criminals. You know, the kind that violate other people's rights.
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