[mrustow]

See also:

Media Manufacture Cloud of Suspicion Over Hatfill

[Mohammed El-Shahawi]

This is clearly a very well researched article. It's amazing how all of these journalists blindly followed the non-existent "Greendale School" myth without question. No actually, it's not amazing. It's different than that. It's chilling.

[terilyn]

Great info mrustow, thanks!

[Steve Eisenberg]

This may or may not be a stupid comment but:

I think that the FBI, under pressure to make a maximum effort, probably assigned too many agents to the anthrax case. As a result, the people who should be looking at the big picture are instead distracted by management tasks such as the coordination of a massive team and running down inside leakers. It would have been better to assign a small tiger team of the FBI's best. As for leaks, a big team is bound to include a smart-alec or two who runs to the press.

It is right for the FBI to consider lots of people as suspects, but Hatfill sounds to me like a very long shot for having anything to do with the crime. There is nothing wrong with them looking at him and even searching his place -- the only thing wrong is the leaks.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Another sad part of this is that there will be plenty of public griping and, as usual, ABC and the FBI will face zero/zippo/nada/zilch/a big goose egg for accountability.

[TLI]

Nice article, a real "Jewell" of factual research.

If the fedgov doesn't retract by the end of the week, I fully expect Hatfill/Glasberg to smoke `em.

 

[FormerLurker]

Sounds like Hatfill is being built up to be this era's Lee Harvey Oswald...

Great article, thanks for posting it.

[exit82]

Thanks for the very interesting article.

It seems to be forgotten that the first victim of anthrax mail in the US was a Florida man who worked for American Media. I always thought that, with the subsequent letters sent to the ABC,CBS and NBC American media outlets, that the terrorist who did this was confused as to what American media actually was.The terrorist was probably not an American. Also, Arab terrorist suspects had lived near, indeed rented from, the first man to die in the anthrax letters.

Also, the letters were definitely mailed in NJ. There was information back last October, even on FreeRepublic, that there was a Muslim scientist living in Trenton, NJ who was NOT being investigated. Perhaps a more astute Freeper can dig that information out.

The FBI has long since passed the time that it has any credibility and should be disbanded. No American should trust it after it was politicized by the Clinton Administration. It needs a complete overhaul, which we were promised, but that never seems to have happened. And it needs completely new leadership.

[Travis McGee]

In previous articles, I advised Hatfill that if he did not soon go on the offensive, he might find himself sharing a cell with the likes of Jose Padilla, and might not be able to speak to his attorney, let alone the world.

Good advice.

[mrustow]

FYI

[EternalHope]

Great article.

No one (other than mad dog liberals) who really followed the situation thought Hatfill was guilty, so that's not a surprise. The surprise is how well Hatfill has come across, and how bad the FBI looks.

So now we have three possibilities:
1. Was he a willing and very convincing participant in a diversion?
2. Was the FBI simply looking for a temporary scapegoat, and willing to trample on this guy to get it?
3. Or was the FBI simply stupid, arrogant, and out of control?

Personally, I sure hope its #1.

[Hagrid]

I remember being suspicious of Rosenberg herself or her friends from the beginning.

Before 9/11, she publicly stated that some scientist might have to launch an attack before people would take the threat seriously and sign the treaty she favored.

The targets were mostly liberals in the Congress and the media who would have to take her concerns seriously before anything could pass. The chair of the Judiciary Committee (who would vote on treaties) was a target.

It sounds like Hatfill is no more likely than Rosenberg or some of her friends.

[mercy]

Good piece. Happily for us GWB is going to make it all better with his new Dept. of Homeland Security. All we need is a bunch more bureaucrats, and unlimited gubmint power. Yeah. That's the ticket. Whew! Thank God the geniuses Bush and Ashcroft are on the job.

[SubMareener]

So the story about Bloodhounds hitting on him, his appartment, etc., is bogus, too?

[Bommer]

In 1996, the FBI colluded with media organizations in the attempted crucifixion of hero Richard Jewell, the security guard who had saved untold lives by discovering a bomb, and evacuating a busy area at the Atlanta Olympics. The Bureau and the media cast Jewell as the bomber. Against all odds, Jewell saved himself, when he turned the tables on his persecutors.

Hatfill could shut the FBI and the media down cold by just interjecting the name of Richard Jewell and calling the FBI what they have become, Jackbooted NAZI's that leaks like a siv and investigate like the Keystone Cops.

[bvw]

Hooray for Mr. Stix!

[aristeides]

(Note that the FBI leaked the "bio-terror novel" red herring to reporter Rebecca Cooper, at ABC's Washington affiliate, WJLA. Cooper, the former lover of then-Rep. Gary Condit, had provided Condit's initial alibi for the time when Chandra Levy disappeared. Later, it turned out that Cooper had gotten her days wrong.)

Cooper reported, "This novel written by Steven Hatfill envisions a biological attack on Congress. It's an attack so deadly that not only do members of Congress and congressional aides become ill, but hundreds of Washington residents become ill and many die as a result."

Given Cooper's congressional connections, isn't it more likely that this leak came from a congressional source?

[aristeides]

The newest leak, is the claim that Hatfill was in London last November, at the same time that an anthrax hoax letter was sent to Sen. Tom Daschle.

First I've heard of this hoax letter from London. Has this news been revealed before?

[hattend]

Like the lefties pointing out minor inconsistencies in Ann Coulter's book Slander to debunk the whole book, I submit:

In Leave it to Beaver, the title character lives in Greendale.

The Cleavers live in Mayfield. Oops

BTTT :-)

[mlocher]

mainstream media these days does not have the patience to do the research for a well thought out article. it is much easier to report rumors and innuendos and carville snippets than it is to get to the truth.

i do not think that the fbi is making a mistake. i strongly suspect that it is following a plethora of leads that we are not aware of. the media, for all the reasons noted above, are picking on one lead in the massive thread of leaves.

[mr.sarcastic]

Sounds like the "six degrees of separation" theory of Greendale. Using this method, the media could tie just about anyone they wanted to a Greendale or Greendale School.