Starting last December, while at an international conference in Switzerland, Barbara Hatch Rosenberg launched the theory that the anthrax perp was a member of the "American biowarfare community". She went on to assert that she, and most of her colleagues, probably knew who the "rogue scientist" was.
Her story first appeared in the house organ of Germany's Green Party.
The media found her "revelations" absolutely fascinating and got on the story like a chicken on a june bug. Since then, she's been playing media darling, asked to comment on each and every "break" in the case. Which, whenever the trail turns cold, she furnishes a brand new "suspect".
Thanks to her "expertise", which has more to do with media management than bacteriology, she even got a confidential meeting with Senators Daschle and Leahy and their staffs.
Shortly thereafter, the FBI made a surprise raid on Hatfill's apartment...accompanied by a fleet of media helicopters and a convoy of remote vans.
If I was Hatfill, I'd be pissed off, too. At John Ashcroft, or anybody in a position of authority who was allowing this charade to continue.
Of course, there is some thought that Hatfill is in on the act and knows the script. He may be a CIA asset himself...and is to play out the role as a media diversion until such time as the administration is ready to announce where the anthrax really came from.
It was just so bizarre and who the heck told him the ninth commandment was about bearing false witness? I don't think the press conference was completely in his own words. Why would he embarass himself if he wasn't familiar with the commandments? Someone else told him to say that which exposes that he did not write his speech in its entirety. It seemed so scripted, and when he left the podium and embraced some guy to his right, it looked like he was acting. That's my opinion and that's not about Ashcroft or the Constitution or dems.
I think you may be right. If this is some weird diversion for the American people and for the world's consumption - they're good because I'm totally bewildered.