Posted on 02/19/2002 6:50:16 AM PST by wimpycat
Edited on 07/06/2004 6:37:18 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
PRINCETON BOROUGH -- An advocate for the control of biological weapons who has been gathering information about last autumn's anthrax attacks said yesterday the Federal Bureau of Investigation has a strong hunch about who mailed the deadly letters.
But the FBI might be "dragging its feet" in pressing charges because the suspect is a former government scientist familiar with "secret activities that the government would not like to see disclosed," said Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, director of the Federation of American Scientists' Chemical and Biological Weapons Program.
(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...
Barbara Hatch Rosenberg
Published on September 5, 2001
The Baltimore Sun
PURCHASE, N.Y. - Once again, with critical global interests at stake, the Bush administration has blocked action by the rest of the world - this time on a vital treaty to monitor the ban on biological weapons. . .
To avoid another publicity fiasco like the one that followed its rejection of the Kyoto Protocol on global warming, the White House announced that the U.S. delegation would remain after rejecting the biological weapons treaty until the negotiating session disbanded in order to prevent other nations from reaching a biological weapons agreement among themselves. The reasons given for rejecting the treaty are disingenuous and intended for a public audience that lacks sufficient technical information to evaluate them. . .
Although preparations for limiting or responding to a biological attack are important, we can't afford to turn down any measure that would contribute to prevention. Unilateral actions alone won't do it. Refusing to join the rest of the world may turn out to be a costly U.S. mistake.
Just another "lets build a case supporting our hypothesis" routine that unfortunately both the left and right extremes in this country engage in all the time.
Tin Foil Hat time from the left is all this is.
Actually, this makes perfect sense to me.
Life is not worth living without a good conspiracy theory to hold on to and many folks have already made up their minds. It was the Muslims.
Add to the Anthrax Index!
He beleived it came in padded envelopes that he had sent out ,that were returned to him later torn open.
Makes you wonder.
Sorry, can't trust nobody who don't know their basic English grammar. "There are a number"? There are one number? Pitiful.
This is exactly the point that a number of us here on FR were making during the height of the scaremongering -- and we were flamed wildly because we weren't wearing enough tin foil to satisfy those who were proclaiming that the "end had come" or that "the terrorists were just waitng for further instructions, or waiting till we attacked Afghanistan, or waiting until Venus, Saturn and Jupiter aligned".
Of course the supply is limited -- how much of this stuff can you obtain at any price??? From the wild scaremongering that was going on you'd have thought these guys had a fleet of tanker trucks full of the stuff.
The Woodrow Wilson school is a prime advocate for world-wide family planning by the way, and the Trenton Times is as PC as any Jersey paper -- especially with regard to aborion issues.
Perhaps she does indeed have inside sources -- I'm just positing that for the sake of my next leap of logic, she, however, did say it.
Suppose, though those inside sources tell her that the anthrax mailer will never be caught -- why then, that gives her a freedom of expression few others enjoy. So she plays a particular song to a audience of "true-believers" and raises her own contact-book capital.
But the FBI might be "dragging its feet" in pressing charges because the suspect is a former government scientist familiar with "secret activities that the government would not like to see disclosed," said Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, director of the Federation of American Scientists' Chemical and Biological Weapons Program.
Sounds to me like an advocate with an agenda to push. Truth be told, you need only read the bold line to know where she's coming from.
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