Oh really?
Investigators have been zeroing in on members of several anti-government hate groups that they believe have obtained or attempted to get the deadly bacteria from several U.S.-based laboratories before it surfaced in Florida, Washington and New York this month.
Whose investigators? The government's, or just some sleazy reporter's hired help?
Several sources told The Post taht (sic)
Sources? Government sources, or just some people chatting at Starbucks'?
* Probers also see similarities between the anthrax letters and some of the so-called hoax letters that contained talcum powder and were initially brushed aside as not being linked to the bioterror scare.
Which 'probers?' Government ones, or just some guys down at Appleby's?
Some investigators believe the same person may have written both sets of letter.
Whose investigators?
"Our feeling is the anthrax does not point to an international terrorist group," a well-placed source said.
Oh, a 'well placed source.' Hmmm... placed where? A source in a chatroom? what exactly is a well-placed source? A Hillary staffer?
"The anthrax letter writer did not fall off a turnip truck after the World Trade Center destruction," another source said.
This one evidently is not so well-placed, whatever that means. Still, is he a government source or just some schmuck who writes his own news on the web?
"There are a number of strong leads and some people we've known of for some time who are being looked at," another highly placed source said.
Ooh! ANOTHER highly placed source, who is placed highly somewhere, though we don't know where. Maybe he's sitting in a high chair. This reporter has found a LOT of DIFFERENT sources... none of which say much. Usually 'highly placed sources' get fired. How many can there be, if they are not congressmen looking to spin?
From the start, FBI profilers cautioned about channeling investigative efforts toward Mideast terror groups because the anthrax-tainted letters to the New York Post, NBC-TV and Sen. Thomas Daschle contained the date "09-11-01," but were in envelopes postmarked Sept. 18.
Now this is the first one the author actually says is a federal source. But it only says profilers cosidered middle eastern terrorists. (Note the only government source so far in the article says nothing about 'right wing domestic groups.')
Sources said international terrorists would unlikely feel the need to spell out an obvious link to their earlier horrific handiwork.
Back to 'sources again. Sources from where? The Psychic Friends network?
"That's real overkill," agreed Clint Van Zandt, a former top FBI profiler. "It is someone other than a bin Laden trying too hard to link up to Sept. 11. It is a gratuitous reference."
Note that even Zandt doesn't make a reference to home grow stuff- he just makes a jab at what it isn't.
"Daschle represents the government, and the government is what the right-wing groups hate," a source said. "By contrast, the media is something they use to get publicity and spread fear."
Back to 'a source,' when the author wants to claim domestic right-wing. Note, not a government source, and not the 'former profiler.' Just a 'source.' Who? Bill Clinton? George Stephanopolous? Some homeless guy?
The sources declined to name the hate groups being eyed in the investigation or the laboratories where the anthrax may have been obtained or milled.
More 'sources.' Maybe they didn't name or at least get more specific about them because they don't know what they are talking about, or don't know their comments have been cut into bites and reassembled to means omething wholly different from what they actually said.
Anthrax spores mailed to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle's office were rendered even more deadly by a chemical additive that investigators suspect was made in the U.S., according to a report today.The sophisticated substance enables the spores to stay suspended in air so they can be more easily inhaled.
Iraq and the former Soviet Union are the only other countries thought to be able to produce the additive, according to The Washington Post.
But an unnamed government source with direct knowledge of the investigation told the newspaper that so far it doesn't look like they did.
Each nation used a different technique in creating the additive, so experts hope continuing microscopic and chemical analysis will point to its origin.
But pinpointing the origin may not necessarily identify the terrorists, because the anthrax possibly could have been stolen from the three countries' stocks during the past few years.
Evidence indicates the spores were military quality and almost certainly produced in a state-sponsored lab.
As opposed to left wing hate groups who hate the govt AND all of us!