Anthrax Probe Leaks Assailed Judge Scolds U.S. In Scientist's Case

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By Carol D. Leonnig
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, October 8, 2004; Page B01

A federal judge scolded the Justice Department yesterday for failing to stop leaks describing former Army scientist Steven J. Hatfill as a "person of interest" in the investigation of the anthrax attacks.

U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton also expressed doubt that the FBI is close to identifying the person behind the mailings that killed five people and sickened 17 others in the fall of 2001. At a court hearing in Washington yesterday, he said he made that assessment after reading a sealed affidavit submitted by the head of the FBI investigation.

http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/images/I16535-2004Oct07

Steven J. Hatfill's suit accuses the Justice Department of defaming him and violating his privacy.

"It doesn't seem to me there's a significant likelihood of anything in the near future that's going to change the status quo," said Walton, who is presiding over a civil suit filed by Hatfill that accuses the Justice Department of defaming him and violating his privacy.

Raising his voice and shaking his finger, Walton told government lawyers that he was "extremely troubled" by recent newspaper articles that quote anonymous law enforcement sources as saying the FBI remains interested in Hatfill, 50, a physician and bioterrorism expert who once worked at the Army's infectious disease research lab at Fort Detrick in Frederick.

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[MrBenchley]

1. Hatfill quite probably is the culprit

but AshKKKroft screwed up the case royally...

By the way, Hatfill is a white supremacist who was involved in biowarfare atrocities in southern Africa and is probably the source of a bogus letter blaming a non-white scientist for th eattacks...when his name first surfaced (not because the FBI was talking to him but because other scienitsts in the field were wondering why no one had interviewed him or asked about him) it took the world press about 20 minutes to determine his academic credentials were fake. Yet he had a top secret clearance.

[Ganja Ninja]

6. If Asscrotch says Hatfill's the man then I figure he's innocent.

Lets face it Sherlock Holmes he's not. If there were any evidence to support the charge they would have him in jail right now.

The attacks just happen to fit nicely if the Bush administration were trying to drum up a reason for and attack on Iraq. Certainly they had access and we've all seen their desire to find a reason for going after Saddam. The attacks contributed to the climate of fear after 9/11 and made it easy for them. Without the 9/11 attack the anthrax attacks would had been their justification for going to war in Iraq. I just can't discount the possibility that some faction of the Bush crowd was behind the whole thing.

[MrBenchley]

8. Actually, Dr Rosenfeld is who said it might be Hatfilll

She's a bioweapons expert with the Federation of American Scientists who went public when after many months it was apparent nobody was even going to look at him...

http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2002/06/rozen-l-06-27.html

[dqueue]

2. Judge Walton...

Now let's hear the spineless piece o' poo seek some justice in Sibel Edmonds' case, which Walton threw out without ever hearing ANY testimony...

[sam sarrha]

3. i heard a Russian scientist involved in Cold war production of Anthrax

contacted the FBI and said that if he was hired by the US that he could guarantee that the attacks would stop.. and they did.

there were about 20 microbiologists that died very mysteriously within a couple years of that event....

http://rense.com/general39/death.htm

http://rense.com/general40/dead.htm

www.chemtrailcentral.com/ubb/forum6/HTML/000623.html

[Wind Dancer]

7. What are the chances?

I would love to know the true story behind the deaths of those top scientists, notice how nobody ever talks about it?

[napi21]

4. The Justics Dept has been getting scolded quite a lot lately, huh?

I don't know if we'll ever find the perp in this anthrax cae, but I rather enjoy hearing about the JD getting hell AGAIN!

[Supersedeas]

5. no likelihood in the near future of changing status quo-* leadership is

soooooo refreshing.