Posted on 06/27/2008 3:48:19 PM PDT by Libertarianize the GOP
The Justice Department on Friday agreed to pay more than $5.8 million to Steven Hatfill, the former government scientist once branded by the Justice Department a person of interest in the deadly anthrax attacks of 2001. The legal settlement to Hatfill, in cash and an annual payments, signals the end of a civil lawsuit Hatfill brought against the Justice Department and FBI, accusing them of violating his privacy rights by improperly leaking sensitive information about the anthrax investigation to reporters.
"I think it's a gratifying end to a very sad chapter in [Hatfill's] life and that of the FBI and DOJ,” said Hatfill’s lawyer, Thomas Connolly, of the Harris, Wiltshire & Grannis law firm in Washington, D.C. “I'm hopeful that the settlement is punitive enough that they will learn their lesson" regarding the treatment of future suspects in high-profile criminal cases, he told NBC News.
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So who sent the anthrax?
well okie dokie that settles that....ahhhhhhhhhh.
Uncle Miltie,
Here is a new 2 minute video posted a couple days ago, with an associated website with hundreds of hyperlinked articles in support, explaining who sent the anthrax.
The Anthrax Letters: Summons to Conquest
http://www.anthraxandalqaeda.com
Mohammad Atta.
Good! Those govt bureaucrats went out of their way to destroy this man on barely a scintilla of evidence. He had been offered a university position that was pulled because of their leaks. They operate under the full color and authority (and financing) of the United States government.
That is extraordinary power, being used against an individual citizen. When used, that power should be used wisely. The DOJ/FBI clowns didn’t honor their own oaths. They disgraced themselves, their agencies and the US government.
Hopefully, they are all currently unemployed and not collecting a government pension (but I delude myself with such a wish).
Counterterrorism experts can’t appeal LSU firing, school says (Hatfill Blacklisting Claimed Legal)
Friday September 06, 06:52:51 GMT-0700 2002 · by PJ-Comix · 37 replies · 415+ views
New Orleans Times-Picayune ^ | September 6, 2002 | Coleman Warner
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/745704/posts
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This is blackest mark on the Bush Administration. They were not able to find where the anthrax came from. It seems to me we face a bigger terrorist threat from chemicals and a dirty bomb than the air traffic system.
But wouldn’t you hope that the university would now have the decency to lift its blackballing status of Hatfill? And an apology wouldn’t be out of order, either.
Anyone can understand in the aftermath of 9-11 that there was a good deal of overreaction, and better over than underreaction. However, now that the DOJ/FBI have been forced to settle over what Hatfill claims, (and the settlment seems to prove was the case,) were false and highly detrimental claims against him, LSU should at least remove him from the blackballed list. Not that I suspect Hatfill would accept a position there, nor, with a $5.8M settlement, would he need a college professor’s salary.
It’s just a matter of decency now. I’m sure Hatfill can relate to Ray Donovan.
The settlement agreement is on my site.
I see people are posting the usual mistaken comments here that this was the FBI's fault. Just a brief look at the facts should make it clear to EVERYONE that this was the fault of conspiracy theorists led by Barbara Hatch Rosenberg and the media led by The New York Times.
They made it virtually impossible for the FBI to ignore their demands to investigate an INNOCENT MAN.
What ever happened regarding the media’s involvement in this case? Didn’t some reporter have to pay a hefty fine until that individual named her source?
The matter is closed. The case is over. There's no point in going after her now.
I'm signing off for today. I'll be back tomorrow.
The quickest way I know to learn a mans true character is to give him authority. Most of our governement officials flunk the test, IMO.
I hope he goes on a long vacation with his settlement and never has to work again!
This is Richard Jewel all over again and both cases were spurred on by over-the-top media coverage. Of course, if law enforcement would keep their mouths shut and not comment on ongoing investigations...
His friends at the CIA are also quite interesting ~ others who give secrets to the Washington Post and New York Times, who socialize with Leftwingtards of all stripes and people with friends in terrorist organizations, etc.
Some of our threads from the last 6 months concerning "Anthrax" have all the details on this puke.
His friends at the CIA are also quite interesting ~ others who give secrets to the Washington Post and New York Times, who socialize with Leftwingtards of all stripes and people with friends in terrorist organizations, etc.
Some of our threads from the last 6 months concerning "Anthrax" have all the details on this puke.
I remember watching a Hatfill press conference. There were only two possibilities: One, Dr Hatfill was the greatest liar in history or two, Dr Hatfill was innocent and would end up owning the FBI Building.
If we lived in a fully just society though, lowlife left-wing gutter scum like Barbara Hatch Rosenberg and Nicholas Kristof would be in jail, and their property and assets would be seized and given to Hatfill as compensation to help ease the burden on the taxpayers.
Nevertheless: hopefully after Richard Jewell, Wen Ho Lee, and now Steven Hatfill, the scum in the government/media complex have finally learned the lesson once and for all.
I agree with you of course, it is a great day. But is it a double-edged sword? Does it now mean that the governments have spent $5.8M for a “get-out-of-jail-free” card on ever now producing court-ordered documents such as forensic lab reports? We all know these forensic lab reports on the powder hold the key to unambiguously tracing the spores - these lab reports are the most closely guarded secret in the investigation.
Yesterday we had at least a lawsuit where the powers of the courts could be used to get information - today that is gone. I’m glad Hatfill got his just deserves, but the country is worse off today - unless Congress chooses to wield it’s powers.
But alas, I have this funny feeling that today's big news is the last real news we in the general public are ever going to hear on the so-called "Amerithrax" investigation.
It's kind of too bad that our old friend "The Great Satan" isn't around here anymore. It would be interesting to hear his reaction right now. I suspect he would probably opine that today was the official and final completion of the last stage of "Operation Hatfill Deception"!
No kiddin’ eh? Someone tried to murder Leahy, as he helpfully reminds Gonzales here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFwi0zF4a70&feature=related
He’s a United States senator, he has subpoena power, he could call hearings and have every forensic lab report cited to him, he could demand answers from dozens of US Army scientists who wrote all the lab reports.
I guess he’s just not THAT curious to know who tried to murder him ;)
That's why he, Leahy, himself, must be subjected to intense scrutiny and appropriate interrogation by lawful organizations sooner or later.
A Hatfill Theory was perfectly plausible and needed to be pursued. It was Mr. Seikaly’s leaks that were beyond the pale, not the theory that someone who would forge a PhD certificate in gaining access to BL-4 ebola labs needed to be closely scrutinized. But BHR’s role dates back to 6 years ago. Ed, got anything new? 6 years is a long time not to have a new idea and to be so wrong about silica.
Hehe. That’s right. Hey, TGS! Do you still think that government agents who searched Hatfill’s girlfriend’s apartment don’t really exist? I called one counterintelligence agent he said didn’t exist and Agent Pamela assured me she had just passed Jennifer in the hallway. (She assured me that they weren’t drinking the same water as TGS.)
Someone should see if they can find Leahy’s online remarks to Vermont students that some of his briefings have been “highly classified.” (It was after those briefings that he was really mad in his interview with the blogger).
“Leaks, focus on single suspect undercut anthrax probe,” Los Angeles Times, June 28, 2008
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-probe29-2008jun29,0,1652343.story
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