[HiTech RedNeck]

Perhaps to point up that the Hatfill snafu took place under Bush’s watch, as a swipe at the GOP?

[SatinDoll]

It is easy to pin a crime on a dead guy. He cannot defend himself.

The question I have is this: how and why did the government ever give him a security clearance?

I had to take a battery of psychological tests in 1980 to get mine. Surely he had to have taken similar, if not the same, array of tests.

If he slipped through, how many others have done so, as well?

[LS]

Well, this apparently proves me wrong, and I'll happily admit it. I thought Hatfill had been a dupe or involved in some duress situation (i.e., someone had made threats vs. relatives), but this story does seem to make sense. Odd how someone's personal vendetta against a college sorority can take on such remarkable "terrorist" overtones, but it would explain some of why there have been no further attacks.

Still, the whole Hatfill pond incident, with that weird glass box submerged was, as far as I know, never fully explained.