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Last week, in the newest chapter of the biggest civil liberties story this country has seen in years, scientist Steven Hatfill announced his long-awaited lawsuit against the federal government, naming Attorney General John Ashcroft, the Department of Justice, the FBI, FBI supervisory special agent Van Harp (who has led the anthrax investigation), et al. The DOJ/FBI terror campaign against Dr. Hatfill, who was a government scientist, and a leading authority on the Marburg and Ebola viruses, and on how to respond to chemical and biological attacks, has been underway for over 14 months. After the FBI botched the investigation of...

"Months after Steven J. Hatfill came under FBI scrutiny in the anthrax investigation and lost his government security clearance, he played an important role in training U.S. intelligence agents and Special Forces for covert missions abroad to search for weapons of mass destruction and was involved in planning security at the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan, according to documents and interviews with government officials and Hatfill's associates. Hatfill trained an elite team from the Defense Intelligence Agency on ways to search for biological weapons, worked on secret projects with the Army's Delta Force and sat in on at least one State...

The Hunting of Steven J. Hatfill Why are so many people eager to believe that this man is the anthrax killer?by David Tell 09/16/2002, Volume 008, Issue 01 1 Who is Steven J. Hatfill?Hatfill is a 48-year-old scientific researcher who specializes in emerging infectious diseases. Various details on his r sum -- to say nothing of a televised FBI raid on his apartment -- have inspired a mini-industry of speculation that he may somehow be implicated in last fall's deadly anthrax attacks. But as we shall see, much of that speculation pretends to be something more: certainty of his...

<p>WASHINGTON — The FBI is conducting an "evidentiary" search on public land in Frederick, Md., that was the focus of the government's anthrax investigation earlier this year, Fox News has learned.</p> <p>Frederick, about 45 minutes north of Washington, D.C., was once the home of Steven Hatfill, a 48-year-old biochemist who is considered a "person of interest" in the anthrax case. Hatfill worked at the Fort Detrick Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases -- the primary custodian of the Ames strain of anthrax found in the letters last fall -- until 1999.</p>

Media presentations of the investigation into the anthrax-letter attacks that last fall killed five people and sickened over a dozen others have been driven by theories, speculation and intense political partisanship. That situation has arisen due to various political forces' desire to kidnap the case in order to cause the U.S. biodefense program to be shut down, and due to a paucity of reliable, hard knowledge. The human mind hates a vacuum and ignorance is a most hospitable host to rampant speculation. Thus do we find ourselves no better informed on the one-year anniversary of the attacks than we were at...

Toogood Reports [Thursday, September 12, 2002; 12:01 a.m. EST]URL: http://ToogoodReports.com/ One year after America was hit with the deadliest attack ever on its own soil, airports were open, even if many New York-area flights were cancelled, and most that took off were 70 percent empty; schools were open, even if many parents kept their kids home; and some businesses were closed altogether. One year after America was hit with the deadliest attack ever on its own soil, let us take stock. How free, safe, and unified is America at war?Liberty The story of liberty in America is the story of...

Scientist With Rhodesian Past Still Center of Media Crosshairs Posted Sept. 9, 2002 By Nicholas Stix Much of the media's "case" against scientist Steven Hatfill, dubbed a "person of interest" by the FBI in its investigation of the anthrax-contaminated letters that last fall killed five people and sickened more than a dozen others, rests on two myths set in Africa during Hatfill's stays in Zimbabwe (Rhodesia prior to 1980) and South Africa. Rather than check out the phony stories, partisan media in the United States, Europe and Africa have echoed and, in some cases, embellished them. Steven Hatfill long has...

It wasn’t long ago when the mention of the word “anthrax” had everyone in this country scared to open their mail. For Dr. Steven Hatfill, the word association has now cost him his job. Chancellor Mark Emmert fired Hatfill Tuesday, but said the decision to terminate him was not made based upon any assumptions in the FBI’s investigation. Hatfill is still a “person of interest” in the FBI’s investigation of last year’s anthrax attacks. The FBI’s interest in Hatfill stemmed from his employment at the Fort Detrick Army bioweapons lab in Maryland, where scientists had access to anthrax. LSU hired...

Two officials fired from leadership posts in a counterterrorism program at Louisiana State University, one of whom is a figure in the federal anthrax investigation, have no appeal rights under university policies, said school officials, who refused to elaborate on what prompted the terminations. Stephen Guillot, director of LSU's National Center for Biomedical Research, and Steven J. Hatfill, hired in July as associate director for the program while he was a subject of FBI scrutiny, were unclassified workers who served at Chancellor Mark Emmert's pleasure under powers granted by the LSU Board of Supervisors, officials said. Working in a continuing-education...

WASHINGTON --- In a second day of staff upheaval for its counter-terrorism program, LSU on Wednesday fired Stephen L. Guillot, who was director of both the National Center for Biomedical Research and Training and the Academy for Counter-Terrorist Education. Guillot's termination, effective Oct. 4, followed two incidents: · LSU's dismissal Tuesday of Dr. Steven J. Hatfill, who had been the associate director of the NCBRT and who is under FBI investigation as a "person of interest" in the anthrax mailings that killed five people last fall. · The university's confirmation Tuesday that the U.S. Justice Department, in an e-mail, had...

<p>CHUNG: Now the latest chapter in the puzzling story of bioterrorism expert Steven Hatfill, the man the U.S. government calls a -- quote -- "person of interest" -- unquote -- in the anthrax investigation.</p> <p>The feds have searched his home at least twice and the home of a friend, while Hatfill has vehemently denied any involvement in the anthrax attack. Yesterday, Hatfill was fired from his job at Louisiana State University. LSU says it fired Hatfill with no pressure from the outside.</p>

In some ways, I am more frightened by the FBI than the terrorists. I am frightened by what Phil Brennan calls the "crucifixion of Steven Hatfill." I am frightened that a U.S. citizen can be tried and convicted, his life and reputation destroyed, by a coordinated effort of the FBI without due process of law. I am frightened that there has been no censure from the federal government and, in fact, the Justice Department has acquiesced to the way the bureau has behaved in its apparent extrajudicial witch-hunt against Mr. Hatfill. In America, we don't try people by innuendo and...

Toogood Reports [Wednesday, August 14, 2002; 12:01 a.m. EST]URL: http://ToogoodReports.com/ Are the FBI and the elite media interested in catching the right guy, or the right-wing white guy? In the case of the terrorist who last fall murdered five people and made 13 others ill via anthrax-contaminated letters, the feds and Big Media have decided that it would be expedient to railroad scientist Steven J. Hatfill, and have engaged in collusion towards achieving that end. The only problem is, that no one has produced one iota of evidence tying Hatfill to the crime. And so, the media and law enforcement...

FBI Searches Apartment Of Former Govt Scientist - Report Copyright © 2002, Dow Jones Newswires FREDERICK, Md.(AP)--A broadcast report says the FBI is conducting another search at the Frederick, Md., apartment of former Fort Detrick scientist, Steven Hatfill. A local TV station says agents are searching the apartment in the Detrick Plaza apartment complex and a trash container outside. Hatfill worked for two years at Fort Detrick in the virology division of the Army's Infectious Disease Institute - the center of the nation's biological warfare defense research program. 1 Aug 2002 12:39 ET DJ FBI/Scientist -2: Apartment Had Been Searched...