Did anyone hear about this yet? Crazy shit! If they know who it is and they are not going to do anything about it, what kind of message would that send to terrorists?
FBI Zeroes In On Anthrax Suspect!
By Cathryn Conroy
A biological weapons expert has publicly announced that the FBI knows who sent the deadly letters laced with anthrax last fall that killed five and infected 13 more. According to the Times of Trenton (New Jersey), Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, director of the Federation of American Scientists' Chemical and Biological Weapons Program, spoke before a group at Princeton University and said the FBI could 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." She claims that the FBI has known the identity of the anthrax suspect since October and has interrogated him more than once.
The Times reports that Rosenberg told her audience at Princeton: "There are a number of insiders--government insiders--who know people in the anthrax field who have a common suspect. The FBI has questioned that person more than once...so it looks as though the FBI is taking that person very seriously." Rosenberg bases her claim on press reports, congressional hearings, Bush administration news conferences and government insiders she will not name that point to someone who has experience handling anthrax and has received not only an anthrax vaccination, but also annual booster shots. The individual, who likely grew the anthrax himself, would have known classified information on how to chemically treat the bacterial spores to keep them from clumping together and remain airborne.
Rosenberg is concerned a quiet deal will be made and the person who sent the anthrax letters will just slip away.
FBI Zeroes In On Anthrax Suspect!
By Cathryn Conroy
A biological weapons expert has publicly announced that the FBI knows who sent the deadly letters laced with anthrax last fall that killed five and infected 13 more. According to the Times of Trenton (New Jersey), Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, director of the Federation of American Scientists' Chemical and Biological Weapons Program, spoke before a group at Princeton University and said the FBI could 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." She claims that the FBI has known the identity of the anthrax suspect since October and has interrogated him more than once.
The Times reports that Rosenberg told her audience at Princeton: "There are a number of insiders--government insiders--who know people in the anthrax field who have a common suspect. The FBI has questioned that person more than once...so it looks as though the FBI is taking that person very seriously." Rosenberg bases her claim on press reports, congressional hearings, Bush administration news conferences and government insiders she will not name that point to someone who has experience handling anthrax and has received not only an anthrax vaccination, but also annual booster shots. The individual, who likely grew the anthrax himself, would have known classified information on how to chemically treat the bacterial spores to keep them from clumping together and remain airborne.
Rosenberg is concerned a quiet deal will be made and the person who sent the anthrax letters will just slip away.
