Tables Turned In Anthrax Probe

"Person Of Interest" Files Lawsuit Against FBI

(CBS) 
According to former Justice Department officials familiar with the case at least a dozen of those people still have not been eliminated as "persons of interest." And yet, only Hatfill was ever identified.

Hatfill wouldn’t give 60 Minutes an interview; but his lawyer, Tom Connolly, did speak to Stahl.

"If you want a blueprint for ruining somebody, this is how you do it. You engage in a campaign of leaking investigative information to your favorite reporters who then write it, and create a caricature of you," Connolly tells Stahl.

Asked if he knows for sure that it was the FBI and Justice Department that were doing the leaking, Connolly says, "I know as a matter of existential truth it was the FBI and DOJ."

How does he know it?

"Because I have FBI agents under oath, who acknowledge under oath, that it couldn’t have been coming from anywhere else because of what was being leaked," he explains.

Nine reporters also gave sworn testimony. In their stories, they often identified their sources as law enforcement officials. Some of the reports would make anyone suspicious.

"I can remember reading articles about your client and thinking: 'Oh this is pretty devastating stuff,'" Stahl remarks. "That he had worked at a U.S. Army laboratory in Maryland and had access to anthrax."

"Let me say one thing with absolute certainty: he has never in his life ever worked with anthrax," Hatfill's attorney, Tom Connolly, insists.

Asked if there was anthrax at the lab, Connolly tells Stahl, "It was in a variety of a wet slurry, not a dry powder."

Asked to explain, Connolly says wet slurry is a paste, while the substance in the envelopes was a dry powder.

"To convert a wet slurry to a dry powder, meaning to weaponize it, is a feat of amazing engineering which requires sophisticated equipment. And it would leave telltale signs behind. Now let me just say one of other thing. The head of Fort Detrick, where this alleged slurry was, has testified under oath that there is no evidence whatsoever that any of that anthrax has been missing or was it ever missing," Connolly says.

"Something else that came out that Dr. Hatfill went on Cipro right before these anthrax letters started appearing. Cipro is what you're supposed to take if you get anthrax, if you're exposed to it," Stahl remarks.

"Before the attacks he had surgery. So yes, he's on Cipro. But the fuller truth is in fact he was on Cipro because a doctor gave it to him after sinus surgery," Connolly explains.

On the Cipro question, Hatfill’s medical records confirm that five weeks before the anthrax attacks, he had sinus surgery and was prescribed Cipro.

Connolly thinks the most damaging leak of all involved evidence-sniffing dogs, which he calls "the magic bloodhounds."

According to Newsweek magazine, the FBI used three purebred bloodhounds, Lucy, Knight and Tinkerbell, who "went crazy" at Hatfill’s apartment.

"The criticism I have with these magic bloodhounds is they have been responsible for a number of false arrests," Connolly argues.

Including the arrest of a man on charges of multiple rapes in California, based largely on Tinkerbell and Knight’s purported power of smell. But he was ultimately cleared by DNA evidence. And now 60 Minutes has learned in the anthrax case that the dogs also alerted to another scientist who worked at the same Army lab as Hatfill.

[jbkaufmann]

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.

[samael2014]

What really resonates with some cold, deep, dark feeling in the pit of my stomach is that whoever was responsible for the anthrax attacks more than likely was hatching this scheme BEFORE 9-11, was likely employed or working for the federal government, and what this all would clearly imply. Taking an antibiotic like Cipro certainly brings to light the kind of preparation and time someone who obviously knew how to handle anthrax would probably want to take to be able to have the first letters in the mail so soon after the 9-11 attacks (that date and what probably only Americans would associate euphemistically to an "emergency wake-up call" -- it always stuns me that more people wouldn't cognitively associate a domestic terrorist with choosing a date like that for such a brazen attack on America). Simply amazing how readily we ate it all up, the investigation into the attacks, the only living suspects kept secreted away from the public, the FBI investigation gone cold into something that should be just as frightening or more to the average joe public, a terrorist that can attack any one of us whenever they desire, without the need to penetrate America's vastly financed security and war on international terror since 9-11. A terrorist that has a very special set of skills and modus operandi, probably works or worked as an agent of the federal government with access to its supplies of anthrax, and remains very much at large with the FBI, FIVE YEARS later.

[drpzack]

ATTENTION, ATTENTION!!

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.

[bushsux2]

The FBI should check out Phillip Zack, the person who was caught entering the anthrax lab at Ft. Detrick WITHOUT authorization. CAUGHT REDHANDED.

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.

[richard mr]

Well I guess that we the watch list people will never know what the government has done to our lives, this big secret and the damage which it has calls. My Children will never know what all the government has done to me and others like me, my sister has just died and she never knew why they were going to so much trouble to destroy her brother's life. If the F.B.I. or the homeland security higher a surrogate to vandalize your property to physically attacked you we need to know about it, There are 150,000 people or more on the watchless and they deserve to know what was done to them by the government of the United States of America. The dreams that was never achieved because of the actions of the government, and the illegal action that was directed at us. I guess we will never know what really happened, the people who were affected by this watch list and the surveillance and wiretaps. We need to know what ever they are doing for some type of closure. I want to know what was done to me? I half outlined what I know that had happened to me on my website itsavideoworld.com I like to pursue legal action against the United States government for the hundreds of thousands of dollars I have lost but the secrecy a round this issue prevents me from doing that. I am a American citizen and I have the right to take legal action against my government but the documents I need is impossible for me to obtain.

[opiegrant-2009]

Here is the real suspect: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/anthraxsuspect.html He will never be prosecuted, mainly due to political pressure from our "ally", Israel.

[therealnews1]

Dear Ms. Stahl,
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.

[postamerican]

Remember the anthrax scare??? It's been 2,001 days since WMD said he'd catch Weekend at Osama's! If I can find the anthrax terrorist, Dr. Philip Zack using GOOGLE, uh why can't the FBI? I look forward to seeing this Government and its Corporate State Controlled Media brought to justice for the lies, terror, and war crimes!

[vanderlust]

Follow the money!

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

[geo1671]

Remember the color alerts. Well this anthrax was another scare the *** out of the dumb American public.
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.

[rapturefool]

Its a dog-npony show.
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"

[rapturefool]

Its a dog-n-pony show.
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"

It must be really bad working for the FBI or any agency charged with protecting such an ungrateful, know it all bunch of people who sit back in the self-satisfied comfort of their safe homes and criticise to death anyone trying to do thier jobs. Is there anything you bunch approve of from your armchair quaterbacking? The FBI is damned if they do and damned if they don't! Homeland Security....damned if they do, damned if they don't. Fema....damned if they do, damned if they don't. Did it ever occur to you to shut up and do something constructive?

[skyk-2009]

Is there any end to the corruption of THIS DOJ? They are supposed to stand FOR Justice not be involved in cases concerning the ABUSE of Justice. Between the FBI and DOJ we have the Keystone Cops and the Marks Brothers all rolled up into one. The problem is they have the power to distroy the lives of NORMAL people. Will the Bush Presidency EVER end?

[kcstan11]

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.

[cassisdad]

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 ...

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/anthraxsuspect.html

[dukeudevil]

Mr. Hatfill, I wish you the very best of luck with your lawsuit. Sue the shirts off their backs. You were unfairly targeted from the very beginning. Never did the government do anything but destroy an [apparently] innocent man's life.

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.)

[gramto7]

It is a surprise to me that Hatfill is still known as "a person of interest". With Duhbya's gang so-called leading, I am shocked he isn't called "an enemy combatant".

[freeherenow]

Dr. Philip Zack mailed the letters with anthrax that he stole from Fort Detrick, Maryland.

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.

[pyunit]

Why won't the press follow up on Dr. Phillip Zack? Why has the FBI ignored Mr. Zack? Where is Mr. Zack? Is Mr. Zack in another country? What country might Mr. Zack be in? These all seem to be reasonable questions. Why not be the first to ask, CBS? You've informed us about Britney's hair & Anna Nicole's drug habit and we thank you. Now we'd like to know more about the weapons grade anthrax that was sent to American citizens to kill them.