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Top FBI Suspect in Anthrax Probe Lives in Washington D.C. Area

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It's from DrudgeReport.com, but it's about a Washington Times article that has not yet been published.


<< Federal authorities investigating the nation's anthrax scare now have a suspect in their sights, according to an exclusive report set for Monday editions of the WASHINGTON TIMES.

According to publishing sources, reporter Jerry Seper has learned how the FBI hunt has focused on one particular suspect, whom the Feds will not name!

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Seper's story outlines the suspect's biography so specifically that those "in the know" have to realize who is being referred to.

According to unnamed law-enforcement authorities, the suspect is a U.S. citizen believed to have worked at the Army's biodefense program.

The confidential sources told Seper that the suspect now lives in the Washington area, was twice fired by the government and threatened to use anthrax after the September 11 attacks.

There are only about 50 people with the technical skill to produce weapons-grade anthrax of the American-made strains used in the letters. >>


http://drudgereport.com/mattjs.htm
 
fired twice by the government? they say it's damn near impossible to be fired from a government job so this guy must be a real loser.

thanks for the story.
 
I read something about this a few days ago. It said they were scared to go directly after the guy because he might leak some things that the powers that be don't want spread around. I have a feeling whoever this is is going to end up suicided Enron style.
 
I wonder what the penalty is for using biological weapons against your own country? What it be considered just murder, or treason?
 
I find something very strange about the seeming lack of news, emphasis, and focus and on this story and it's solution in terms of bringing the guilty to justice.

The cost to the economy of these attacks must be staggering. I have a horrible feeling that the reputations of important people are at risk were we to know the truth.

Whatever the case, what kind of mind does it take to send stuff like that through the mail where you kill people at random that you have never even met and who have never even remotely harmed you. The WTC killed thousands, but there was enough anthrax in those envelopes according to my local station to kill most everybody in the US.
 


<< I wonder what the penalty is for using biological weapons against your own country? What it be considered just murder, or treason? >>



This would not be treason as far as the law is concerned. Treason requires that a person "owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere." 18 U.S.C. sec. 2381. The use of a biological agent would be an aggravating factor in sentencing a defendant for murder, but would not transform mere murder into treason absent some independent evidence that the release of contaminants was intended to be an act of war.

Interestingly, treason is the only offense specifically mentioned in the Constitution, which requires the United States to produce two eyewitnesses to the allegedly treasonous act in order to sustain a conviction. This would likely be impossible in this case, even if the other elements of treason were met, since by all appearances this was the act of a lone wacko.
 
We defintely need to add some new federal statues that specifically deal with terrorism. Murder just does seem enough for something like Anthrax of the WTC.
 


<< I find something very strange about the seeming lack of news, emphasis, and focus and on this story and it's solution in terms of bringing the guilty to justice. >>



I've discussed this with some of my CDC coworkers and we've pretty much arrived at the conclusion that this is being kept kinda quiet as it is potentially a huge black eye for the military. There's really only one place to find both this strain of anthrax and someone with the knowledge and experience to weaponize it......USAMRIID. I'd be the FBI had a short list of possible domestic suspects once they identified the Ames strain and it was just a matter of narrowing them down.

Fausto
 
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