A remarkably stupid column The editor of the WSJ embarrasses himself in this article.

So the full agenda is to prove that Dr. Hatfill concocted his anthrax with the help of leading bioweapons scientists and in intelligence facilities. In a Salon interview on the FAS Web site, Ms. Rosenberg charged that the FBI was slow to arrest the suspect because, "This guy knows too much, and knows things the U.S. isn't very anxious to publicize." That is, that these secret facilities have been used to violate the Biological Weapons Convention, as another arms-control advocate in the Salon article explicitly charges. Conceivably, of course, in her perfervid quest for U.S. complicity, Ms. Rosenberg could have stumbled on some truth. Dr. Hatfill is a flamboyant character, who was indeed in Rhodesia during an anthrax epidemic there. Which lie-detector tests he passed or failed is yet to be sorted out, but it seems he was being culled from the bioweapons program. Unlike the Unabomber, however, he does not seem an obvious nut case. And so far the closest thing to direct evidence against him is the report by Newsweek and Mr. Kristof that bloodhounds exposed, somehow, to the anthrax envelopes bayed, or something, in Dr. Hatfill's apartment.

This is nothing more than sour grapes. There is a great deal of circumstantial evidence that points to Hatfill, and we will know for sure when DNA tests come back. Bartley is grasping at straws when he suggests that Rosenberg's investigation was ideologically motivated. An investigation can and should be conducted into whether Hatfill did it or not. As for whether the US government violated the Biological Weapons Convention...well, I don't know if we did or not because I'm not familiar with the premises of the BWC. I wouldn't be surprised if we did, but I can understand Bartley's reticence at having the US smeared as a "terrorist nation" if such facts came to light. Still, the fact remains that Rosenberg tracked down this guy while the FBI twiddled their thumbs. Bartley should be commending her and calling for a shakeup in the FBI. Instead he's suggesting that the "FBI not let themselves be led around by the FAS". I think he has his priorities backwards.