[mercy]

The FBI is incompetent. If Ashcroft doesn't fire people over this it's a crime. Richard Jewell all over again.

[mercy]

This guy's press conference yesterday made fools out of the FBI and thus the entire justice department. Just what we need in this time of national crisis. It's just failure after failure with the FBI. And nobody is ever fired. I'm losing all respect for Ashcroft.

[Mohammed El-Shahawi]

....but a number of intriguing items from his past make them unwilling to declare him cleared of any suspicion.

Oh I get it. There isn't a shred of even circumstantial evidence connecting him with the anthrax attacks, but something he did 20 years ago has raised their flags. Well, that's brilliant. How do these Feds do it? Over 6 billion people on the planet and they managed to find the one that ran a red light 20 years ago. It must be him! Who needs evidence?

[Sacajaweau]

This guy is more than likely working "with" the FBI than a suspect. Don't believe everything you hear and see.

The Anthrax MAKER is likely dead. The terrorists are of the "dead men tell no tales" philosophy.

The Mailer(s) may be a different case but the Anthrax trail likely ended with Atta's death.

[blau993]

I heard a portion of the news conference yesterday afternoon. One of the arguments made by Hatfill's lawyer is that while there is a section of Harare called "Greendale" (probably hundreds if not thousands of towns called "Greendale" around the world), but there is NOT a "Greendale School" in Harare. This article appears to contradict that.

[onedoug]

Check whatever the government claims eight ways to ten, and it's likely still a lie.

[SteamshipTime]

I have a more sinister view. Ashcroft et al. know exactly what happened and it's so politically explosive, they're covering it up. A "readiness exercise" gone dreadfully wrong? Deliberate acts by someone high enough and public enough that he is able to use the political fallout as blackmail?

This is one of the most rare, heavily controlled substances on earth. We know the very strain and where it had to come from. We know who worked with it and who their friends and families were. We know which post offices it went thru and the vectors of infection.

I'm skeptical that the same government which has apparently pre-empted several attacks since 9/11 is completely unable to develop a single credible lead in this case.

God help us.

[Joe Hadenuf]

FBI Not Ready To Clear Hatfill

LOL! I'll bet their not! After that news conference yesterday, you can bet they are running around desperately looking under every rock.

If they find something, I say give the Hatfill guy, the best liar of the year award!

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

Hatfill, whose name surfaced more than a month ago but has not been declared a suspect,

A former FBI agent on said earlier that the FBI doesn't use the term suspect...

[Hans]

The FBI should hire Hatfill as their spokesman. At
least he sounds like he's telling the truth.

[RetiredArmy]

I was thinking the exact thing about Richard when I read your thoughts. Of course, he was the guilty one and his life ruined by those thugs.

[jalisco555]

On his computer, officials found the draft of a novel about a bioterrorism attack.

So is the FBI also investigating Tom Clancy for his possible role in 9/11? Talk about circumstantial evidence concocted from thin air.

[Helms]

Lots of lying lawyers on TV lately.We have become a litigiously minded society even parsing the meaning of responsibility (Clinton was the historical nexus and Geraldo the circus barker who brought us lying lawyers on TV
almost nightly).What a F--ked Decade,the 90's. More corporate consolidations than you could shake a stick at.

[SSN558]

"FBI Said Not Ready to Clear Hatfill"

Headline should read, "FBI Said Not Ready to be Sued Yet." There are several questions that remain unanswered such as, who leaked Hatfills personal information to the hyenas at the press ? Did his involvement with white rule in Africa have something to do with it ?

Why has the FBI not released all the information to the public and press on possible suspects ? Are they pulling another Unabomber investigation fiasco ?

Is the FBI sitting on information that the anthrax mailers were all Arab terrorists and that they are now dead ? Could some bureaucrat type be prolonging the investigation so that his/her project will not go away or lose funding ?

We the people need to know these things. Most if not all of our public instutions have proven time and again that they are incompetant of carrying out any program without public oversight.