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Pastimes : DC Sniper - Theories?

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To: Bill Ulrich who wrote (2340)10/25/2002 8:56:41 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER  Read Replies (1) of 2746
 
Sounds like once the FBI was sure that the two sitting ducks were quietly snoozing in the blue Chevy, they quickly alerted the media to launch the hunting... before the patsies wake up --a master setup!

washingtonpost.com

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Fox News Vice President John Moody said the leaked information about the license plate "was coming from enough different sources that you had to wonder if somebody didn't want that out. If anything, we were helping the authorities."

Said Kathryn Kross, CNN's Washington bureau chief: "I don't see the downside when you've got what, in essence, was a manhunt. You want as many eyes as you possibly can to say this is what we're looking for. You can deputize a nation."

CNN reported at 10:02 p.m. Wednesday that a 1990 Caprice with New Jersey plates was being sought, that police officials were debating whether to release the men's names and that, as reporter Kelli Arena, put it, "we have been cautioned not to refer to these individuals as suspects." MSNBC's Pete Williams said a minute later that "we have been asked not to pass these specific names on."

Fox's Rita Cosby reported at 10:52 that police were looking for John Allen Williams (or John Muhammad) and Lee Malvo, and that the license plate on the blue Caprice was NDA-21Z. CNN's Jeanne Meserve reported the names three minutes later.
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