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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (114898)	8/6/2008 10:54:16 PM
From: GuinnessGuy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Mike, Not sure where you are getting this juicy info, but thanks... Here's something else that is strangely suspicious...check out the Wiki entry for Hatfill, the who was previously a 'person of interest': en.wikipedia.org Here's a just a sample: --------- Hatfill served as an enlisted soldier in the U.S. Army in the late 1970s. (In 1999, he would tell a journalist during an interview that he had been a "captain in the U.S. Special Forces", but in a subsequent investigation the Army stated that he had never served with the Special Forces[2].) Hatfill then settled in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) where his claimed military associations included work with the United States Army's Institute for Military Assistance, the Rhodesian SAS, and the Selous Scouts. He stayed on to study medicine (1978-84) at the Godfrey Huggins Medical School [3] in Salisbury (now Harare), graduating (after failing in 1983) in 1984. In that year he also took a board certification in hematological pathology from South Africa. The South African government recruited him to be medical officer on a one-year (1986) tour of duty in Antarctica. He then served (1987-90) as an Emergency Medical Officer at the Conradie General Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa. A medical residency (1991-93) at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, resulted in a Master's Degree in Medicine and board certification in hematopathology. Hatfill later claimed to have a Ph.D. degree in molecular cellular biology from Rhodes University in South Africa, as well as completion of a post-doctoral fellowship (1994-95) at Oxford University in England and three master's degrees (in microbial genetics, medical biochemistry, and experimental pathology). Some of these credentials have been questioned. During a later investigation, officials at Rhodes University insisted that he had never been awarded a Ph.D. from their institution [4]. On 11 March 2007, Hatfill's lawyer Tom Connolly [5] (in his lawsuit against former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft and the FBI) admitted that his client had "Puffed on his resume. Absolutely. Forged a diploma. Yes, that's true."[6] ------------------- If this guy wasn't agency or, more likely, military intelligence at some point, then I'll never drink a Guinness Stout again. ;) I have a theory as to what really may have happened here, but I'd prefer to think about it some more. I will say that I suspect that this guy Hatfill was part of what happened(i.e. - the anthrax attacks) but never intended to have what happened, happen. I suspect he was duped into contributing but didn't know what the end result would be. Perhaps no one did. If Ivins killed himself, it may have been out of guilt for what happened, but not because he intentionally let it happen. And neither was it just because he was the main suspect(although that surely helped). In other words, I believe both guys may have been used. Now the question is: by whom? The question I ask myself is who benefited, who had the capability, and lastly, who had the opportunity to do this with a low likelihood of getting caught. (Hint: wasn't the Bush/Cheney crowd, IMO, although Cheney's office may have aided it by pulling some strings for the real perp, yet not knowing the final outcome). Although I doubt this case will ever be solved, my guess it that it is a case of 'The Keystone Spooks'. Any guesses? Craig