Posted on 10/28/2001 9:28:44 AM PST by The Magical Mischief Tour
FBI (Federal Bureau of Incompetence) at it again.
Where is Inspector Clouseau?
Sunday Oct. 28, 2001; 10:33 a.m. EST
FBI Testing Atta's Car, Residence, for Anthrax
In response to reports that the FBI had overlooked leads tying Twin Tower kamikaze hijacker Mohamed Atta to the recent wave of anthrax attacks on the U.S., the bureau now plans to test Atta's rental car and Florida residence for the presence of the deadly bacteria.
The decision to probe a possible Atta anthrax connection, first reported by Fox News Channel late Saturday, comes after a report last week that the FBI had specifically declined to sweep Atta's car and home for traces of the bioterror agent.
"In Florida, agents haven't tested cars or residences used by some of the hijackers, including those of Mohamed Atta," the Wall Street Journal revealed Thursday. "FBI officials said testing isn't a priority, because they assume that by now, the hijackers' cars and apartments would have been cleaned, removing any trace of anthrax."
"At this time, there are no plans to go back and check (Atta's car and apartment) for traces of anthrax," Special Agent Rene Salinas told the paper just four days ago.
The FBI has previously tested Atta's other personal effects, such as clothing he left behind, for anthrax traces.
Weeks before the Sept. 11 attacks, Atta and several of his fellow hijackers were spotted at Florida airfields inquiring about renting crop-dusting airplanes, a move investigators suspect may have been linked to bioterrorism.
Atta was also reportedly spotted in a Florida pharmacy with reddened hands; a symptom some say could have been caused by anthrax contamination.
Actually, I believe this is the object of the game!!
We have to completely gut the FBI and either clean it out or break it up for good. Their power is too scary and the way they frame innocent people.
I have never understood how come we have the FBI, ATF, NSA, etc. when they all seem to be have the same job description. It's redundancy x 5. And the FBI and CIA seem to be twitching places to boot.
Except, they aren't really looking for and gathering more evidence. They are trying to blame innocent Americans for the anthrax attacks, without any evidence at all.
Maybe Bush and those high mucky muck politicians don't really know what the FBI is like and what the common person thinks of the FBI. Maybe we should be writing them, telling them. I know the crooked pols probably have the FBI and other government agencies looking out for them but there has to be a few good, honest pols in Washington or we're up a creek without a paddle.
"Just how should Ashcroft expend his personnel resources?"
A short time before the 9/11 attacks, I had posted that maybe the reason Bush and the new adminstration hadn't moved to go after the traitors, the clintons and their trolls , yet was because there might have been an external threat that they were having to deal with first from the clintons' weakening our defense forces and making a shambles of foreign policy. Seems I was right.
Right now, we have to still go after the traitors even if bloody bill is out of office, because his witch wife and his trolls are still in the government, still in positions from which they could create more treasonous offenses against Amercians. We are at war now and we certainly don't need to be stabbed in the back by American traitors giving bin laden and iraq more help at this time.
---max
Don't overreact. Recall that the only source supporting this accusation is an unnamed "government official", as reported by Bob Woodward and published by the Washington Post.
I rather imagine that Bob Woodward and the Post are the ones "trying to blame innocent Americans". The FBI probably knows better...
Why do you insist that September 11, 2001 was one incident unrelated to any prior events?
Actually, there really was life, terrorist activity against the United States, and history before September 11, 2001.
Many of us were nearly certain on 9-11-01 that bin Laden was the perpetrator that day because of the known 'pattern' of bombings of the USS Cole, the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, and the 1993 bombing of the WTC--all of which have established his connections to those events.
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