Maybe yes, maybe no, but I would not want to bet anything on it.
The Federation of American Scientists website has long had a soft spot for dubious conspiracy theories mixed in with excellent resources.
-Chip Berlet
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of Doug Henwood
> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 12:48 PM
> To: lbo-talk
> Subject: does FBI know anthrax perp?
>
>
> <http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/feb2002/anth-f25.shtml>
>
> FBI knows anthrax mailer but won't make an arrest, US
> scientist charges
>
> By Patrick Martin
> 25 February 2002
>
> A leading US expert on biological warfare said the FBI had identified
> the perpetrator of last fall's anthrax attacks on the congressional
> Democratic leadership and other targets, but was "dragging its feet"
> in making an arrest and pressing charges, for fear that secret
> government activities would be exposed.
>
> Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, director of the Chemical and Biological
> Weapons Program for the Federation of American Scientists, an
> independent, non-governmental professional group, made the charge in
> a speech February 18 at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and
> International Affairs at Princeton University.
>
> She said the FBI had known since last October the identity of the
> person who mailed lethal quantities of anthrax in letters to Senate
> Majority Leader Tom Daschle, Senator Patrick Leahy, and several media
> outlets. Sources she described as "government insiders" told her the
> individual in question had been interrogated several times, but not
> arrested.
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