And HERE is the real reason he became the fall guy.
(11) he “‘was once caught with a girlfriend in a biohazard ‘hot suite’ at Fort Detrick [where Hatfill had concedely worked] surrounded only by blushing germs.’
Stupid?
Poor taste?
Kinky?
How many fools do you work with? I have worked with plenty.
Kristof seems to have behaved in an outrageous way in this case, targeting Hatfield as the bad guy perhaps simply because he had spent some time in South Africa (and therefore was assumed to be a supporter of white supremacists).
Kristof was also a willing mouthpiece for Joe Wilson's lying leaks which did a lot of harm to the Bush administration's foreign policy (before Wilson finally wrote an op-ed in his own name).