Tables Turned In Anthrax Probe
"Person Of Interest" Files Lawsuit Against FBI
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'Person Of Interest' Sues FBI
In Full: Steven Hatfill, the only so-called "person of interest" in the FBI's Anthrax investigation turned the tables on his accusers by suing them. Leslie Stahl reports.
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Only On The Web: "60 Minutes" correspondent Lesley Stahl discusses her report on Dr. Steven Hatfill, the only man named a "person of interest" in the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks.
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But soon the FBI began keying on a so-called "person of interest" – Steven Hatfill – and launched one of the largest criminal investigations in its history.
As correspondent Lesley Stahl reports, the FBI has been going after this guy for five years, and yet he has got them in court: Hatfill has sued the FBI and Department of Justice for what he claims has been a campaign of leaking lies and distortions about him to the press.
Through the lawsuit, Hatfill’s lawyer has not only obtained boxfuls of internal government documents, but he has also deposed nearly every major law enforcement official involved in the case. It is the latest twist in the FBI's yet unsolved investigation of the anthrax murders.
A number of anthrax letters began appearing in the mail between late September and October, 2001. The letters were sent to news outlets – Dan Rather and Tom Brokaw got them. As did two U.S. senators. And two postal workers, who handled the poisonous envelopes, died.
Steven Hatfill, a medical doctor and an expert on viruses, was outed in a drumbeat of news reports that included aerial shots of the FBI seizing property from his apartment, including his trash.
And then-Attorney General John Ashcroft confirmed on television that Hatfill was a "person of interest."
But instead of the FBI nailing Hatfill, he filed his lawsuit claiming that with their leaks, the FBI and Justice Department had violated his presumption of innocence and destroyed his reputation.
"I object to an investigation characterized, as this one has been, by outrageous official statements, calculated leaks to the media, and causing a feeding frenzy operating to my great prejudice," he said in August, 2002.
In the lawsuit, Hatfill is turning the tables on the FBI: the hunted is dragging the hunters into court. Top officials were deposed on videotape, like John Ashcroft, who was less than forthcoming.
"Is it appropriate for Department of Justice officials to suggest that Dr. Hatfill fits a behavioral profile of the anthrax killer?" Ashcroft was asked.
"I don’t know," the attorney general replied.
"You don’t know whether it was appropriate or inappropriate to disclose that kind of information?" he was asked.
"I don’t know," Ashcroft responded.
Asked if he thought it was fair to Dr. Hatfill, Ashcroft said, "I don't know."
John Ashcroft answered "I don’t know" to 85 questions in the four and a half hour deposition.
Hatfill came on the radar screen in the first place because he seemed to fit the FBI profile as an American scientist who had worked at a U.S. Army laboratory where the strain of anthrax used in the attacks was stored.
There were other – quote – “curiosities.” For instance, he commissioned a study in 1999 of how emergency personnel should respond in the event of an anthrax mailing. He wrote a novel fictionalizing a bio-terrorist attack in Washington.
And there’s an open question about how similar his handwriting is to that on the anthrax envelopes. But in his deposition, Richard Lambert, who oversaw the FBI investigation, said there were other people on the radar screen.
"There were 20 to 30 other people who were also likewise identified as 'persons of interest' in the investigation," Lambert said during the deposition.
Lambert couldn't identify the other people, acknowledging that his testimony could stigmatize those individuals.
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"A trillion spores per gram, special electro-static treatment! This is super-weapons grade Anthrax that even the United States government, in its openly proclaimed programs, and we had one before Nixon, had never developed before. So it was obvious to me that this was from a US Government lab, there is no where else you could have gotten that."
To learn more about Dr. Boyle, google:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&pwst=1&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=Dr+Francis A. Boyle&spell=1
1. Director of the office of Public Preparedness
2. NY Office of Emergency Management
3. Managing Director of Kroll World Trade Center Complex SECURITY ON 9/11
http://winterpatriot.blogspot.com/2007/02/meet-jerome-hauer-911-suspect-awaiting.html
Worse Martin Luther King, a county hospital has been under bureaucratic attack and the surrounding community is losing. It is now reduced from 400 to 42 Med-Surg beds. The number of people coming to the ER did not decline and so in their infinite stupidity patients are shipped to other hospitals at expensive cost.
Oh the reason is MLK became "dangerous", but I work and many area hospital via a registry service and I don't see or hear of anything more or less than what happens at MLK. I have been "shipped" to LAC-USC and I see JACHO, CMS and DHS violations everywhere.
In closing the health care system is in bad shape in L.A.
This is a start:
http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2002/01/26/assaad/index_np.html
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/ARCHIVE/ctnow_com%20SPECIALS.htm
http://tinyurl.com/2vo9z
This man was just about caught red handed. The FBI was on the case and Zack was considered a prime suspect. Then all of a sudden the whole thing gets completely buried. Why?
Do a Google search.
It seems that every 9/11 investigator figured that out about 5 years ago, and not a single mainstream media outlet will breathe a word about this man.
What a fraud.
For whatever it might be worth, our country's founding fathers would be very proud of you being an American and resisting this country's corrupt presidential administration. May the laws they put into place trump the lies of the crooks now in office. (Yes, you are crooks, Bush and Cheney.)
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/anthraxsuspect.html
I was taking Cipro for a severe infection at about that time. Knowing the stupidty of the FBI ... I also am probably am a suspect.
Anything to distract an investigation of real criminals.
"Meanwhile, the FBI totally ignored a real suspect; a man caught by the security system entering the storage area where the anthrax used in the letters was kept, without proper authorization and after being fired from his job over a racially motivated attack on an Egyptian co-worker - WRH"
Anything to distract investigating real criminals.
"Meanwhile, the FBI totally ignored a real suspect; a man caught by the security system entering the storage area where the anthrax used in the letters was kept, without proper authorization and after being fired from his job over a racially motivated attack on an Egyptian co-worker - WRH"
You got to give credit to AIPAC Juice gangs--they were very successful and it did work. What is next is a Nuke case going off soon and blame this on Bugs Bunny.
Medical company selling cipro was broke, but was already refurnishing and upgrading computers long before the hulabaloo. My friends mom was a regional manager in france, she wondered about the insane purchases, untill the hulabaloo hit, she didn't want to talk about it any more... I did! :D
www.whatreallyhappened.com
As an American citizen, I appreciate your investigation of this act of terrorism taking place on American soil. In the interests of investigating all leads, please take the opportunity to research the involvement of Lt Col Philip Zack, a "person of interest" who had the means and the access to the strain of Anthrax used in these attacks. It would appear that the evidence is pointing in a different direction than that presented to date by most media outlets. The story should not be buried if we are serious about finding the source of our "War on Terror".
Thank you.
Maybe Sen. Grassley and the FBI should be sent this link http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/anthraxsuspect.html and google "phillip zack anthrax"
Forward the links to the Senator.
Dr. Philip Zack! Dr. Philip Zack!
Dr. Philip Zack! Dr. Philip Zack!
Dr. Philip Zack! Dr. Philip Zack!
Dr. Philip Zack! Dr. Philip Zack!
Special Thanks to Mr. M.R.
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by jbkaufmann
March 14, 2007 2:30 PM PDT
- No mention in the 3-11-2007 60M piece/segment of the evidence in the linguistical-forensic analysis on the anthrax-bearing envelopes. How many people have the word "Greendale" in their everyday lexicon? Not many. My age: approx 60 yrs. This is the very first time I've EVER used the word "Greendale" in a communication. Yet for the anthrax killer this was very much part of his vocabulary. The killer was obviously not aware of the paucity of usage for this compound word here. It's not like the word "greenback," or "green beans," etc. It's a word you'd expect to find in a Keats or Byron poem. The fact is Doctor H. was eminently aware of this word, living in this Salisbury, Rhodesia suburb yrs back. Whether there is a "Greendale School" or not is irrelevant. His background shows his linguistic familiarity with the word. Although most Americans recognize the phrase, "In verdant pastures He gives me repose..." what person ever heard said: "In a lush greendale, He gives me rest..."??? This is a word (although seemingly common in componding) that reveals much because of its lack of USA usage. Kudos to the FBI for finding the guy. So there is resolution, if not prosecution/conviction. Unfortunately, the Tylenol killer of October, 1982 never left anything written.
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