Posted on 08/26/2003 11:40:15 AM PDT by freeperfromnj
WASHINGTON -- The bioterrorism expert under scrutiny in the 2001 anthrax attacks filed a lawsuit Tuesday accusing Attorney General John Ashcroft and other government officials of trampling his constitutional rights and using him as a scapegoat for their failure to make an arrest in the case.
Dr. Steven J. Hatfill claims that, by labeling him a "person of interest" in the case, Ashcroft and other federal authorities have destroyed his reputation and ruined his job prospects.
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I wish him Godspeed. If he goes down, he's going to do so in epic proportions; if he wins, he's going to change the way government goes about its business.
Randy Weaver did and won.
Load of Bravo Sierra, pal. Get a grip.
One of us has a proper appreciation of the magnitude of this case. We'll just have to see whose judgment time proves to be right.
Now, have we had Russian agents in the FBI in the recent past?
Sorry but you can't speak for me and it has been reported on here before and it has nothing to do with Rosenburg. I know it was reported here, because I was one of the ones that kept reporting it over and over...read on...
Academic and military records show that Steven Hatfill, a former U.S. Army biological scientist who has recently been the public focus of the FBI in its investigation into last fall’s anthrax attacks, might have falsified several claims in his resume, the Baltimore Sun reported today (see GSN, Aug. 5).SAIC fired him because he could not obtain a security clearance...no small wonder. I work in the Govt. contracting field and embellishing a resume is a BIG NO-NO. I have NO sympathy for him on this matter, he ruined his own reputation in the contracting arena, THAT is why he cannot get employment in his chosen profession.The apparently misleading resume, however, did not prevent the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases from hiring Hatfill in 1995, according to the Sun. The U.S. Defense Department also apparently did not attempt to verify Hatfill’s resume before granting him “secret” security clearance in 1999, the Sun reported.
“Obviously, if this is true, he was not adequately vetted by the U.S. government to work with dangerous pathogens,” said Elisa Harris, a senior research scholar at the University of Maryland who is studying regulation of biological programs.
False Academic Credentials
In a 1997 resume submitted to the National Institutes of Health, Hatfill said he had earned a doctorate degree in “Molecular Cell Biology/Biochemistry” from Rhodes University in South Africa, according to the Sun. Rhodes University Registrar Stephen Fourie, however, said that while Hatfill had been enrolled at the university for a couple of years and submitted a doctoral thesis, he did not earn a degree.
A NIH official said yesterday that the agency has what seems to be a photocopy of a doctoral degree from Rhodes University with Hatfill’s name on it, the Sun reported. A 1999 resume from Hatfill, however, lists a “Ph.D. Thesis” where the previous resume had listed a “Ph.D. Degree,” according to the Sun.
False Military Background
In Hatfill’s 1997 resume, he claimed to have “served with U.S. Army Special Forces” and to have been a member of the 7th Special Forces Group, according to the Sun. According to Army records, however, Hatfill began Special Forces training at Fort Bragg in North Carolina in 1976 but was “academically dropped” after a month, Army spokesman Walt Sokalski said. Without Special Forces training, Hatfill could not have been a member of the 7th Special Forces Group, and his records do not indicate any such service, Sokalski said.
In the 1999 resume, Hatfill no longer mentioned having been a member of the 7th Special Forces Group, according to the Sun. Instead, Hatfill only noted that he had “served with the U.S. Army Institute for Military Assistance,” the institute from which he was dismissed, the Sun reported (Scott Shane, Baltimore Sun, Aug. 8).
Hatfill also has reportedly claimed military experience with two units of the former Rhodesian (now Zimbabwean) military during the white Rhodesian government’s war against black rebels in the late 1970s. Several experts have alleged that the Rhodesian government used biological weapons against rebels during the conflict.
Stephen Dresch, an activist with Forensic-Intelligence.org, however, said former Rhodesian military sources have reported no evidence of Hatfill serving with either of the two military units he has claimed — the C Squadron of the Rhodesian Special Air Service and the Selous Scouts, a Rhodesian paramilitary unit.
“In a nutshell, no one here has ever heard of this man. I have checked with the former commander of the Selous Scouts and two previous commanders of the SAS. Their collective comment of this man’s claims do not bear repeating,” Dresch quoted the source as saying. “Both of the units were very small and it is unlikely that anyone could have served that was soon forgotten” (Mike Nartker, GSN, Aug. 6).
Hatfill’s attorney Victor Glasberg has declined to comment on Hatfill’s resume, the Baltimore Sun reported. USAMRIID spokesman Chuck Dasey said that the responsibility for verifying the claims Hatfill made in his resume rested with the National Research Council, part of the National Academy of Sciences, because Hatfill had been a NRC fellow.
Anthrax: Hatfill Case Casts Doubt on Screening Processes
Just want to be sure of your opinion.
He was caught embellishing his resume because of the publicity and the FBI's investigation, yes. But to claim he lost his reputation and was unable to find work in his chosen profession because of the FBI investigation is disengenuous. He was fired from SAIC because he could not get the security clearance. He could not get the security clearance because he embellished his resume. Now that it is public knowledge that he embellished his resume, it does make it difficult for him to obtain a position because he has essentially been blackballed in the profession. He has no one to blame but himself for this.
Call in the Jury. Foreman, does the jury find Mr. Fredo Barbato Immordino guilty of arson as charged?
Foreman: We are deadlocked your Honor, eleven of us say it is clear arson. Juror ravingnutter says it is the reastaurant's fault.
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