BREAKING Feds to pay steve hatfill 5.8 million

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

msnbc - he was the "person of interest" in the anthrax mailings.

[ReadTomPaine]

1. They drained a lake trying to find dirt on this guy.

I wonder if heads will roll over this, but I'm not going to hold my breath.

[TheDebbieDee]

4. When they knew all along that it was the * thugs

that sent out the Anthraxgrams.

[hootinholler]

17. Worse, a resivoir during not quite drought conditions.

Steve deserves every penny and more. They fucked him six ways to Sunday.

-Hoot

[rusty_parts2001]

2. Christ, almighty

[defendandprotect]

3. ...and how many years of his life . . . ???

The Anthrax traces back to one of our military labs ---

Seems rather obvious that the neo-cons bounced this on Congres to shut them down right after 9/11 . . .

cause they wouldn't have wanted investigations or the public to be able to contact Congress

members by mail --

The mail, btw, is still be radiated or is it irradiated? Takes 6 weeks for them to get it!

Do we think anyone was reading it while it was drying --- ???

[Supersedeas]

5. and meanwhile, the terrorist who attack the Dem Leadership is as free as Osama

[ReadTomPaine]

6. Kick

[EFerrari]

7. So basically, we're paying BushCo to f#ck us over.

But, I'm glad for Hatfill. What they did to him was horrible.

[Canuckistanian]

8. Will any heads roll on this?

Hahahhaaha. I kill myself.

God, January can't come fast enough.

[pnorman]

9. Here's one Google 'hit':

WASHINGTON — A former Army scientist who was named as a person of interest in the 2001 anthrax attacks will receive $5.8 million to settle his lawsuit against the Justice Department. Steven Hatfill claimed the Justice Department violated his privacy rights by speaking with reporters about the case.

Settlement documents were filed in federal court Friday. Both sides have agreed to the deal, according to the documents, and as soon as they are signed, the case will be dismissed.

The deal requires the Justice Department to pay $2.825 million up front and buy Hatfill a $3 million annuity that will pay him $150,000 each year for 20 years.

"Our government failed us, not only by failing to catch the anthrax mailers but by seeking to conceal that failure," Hatfill's lawyers said in a statement. "Our government did this by leaking gossip, speculation, and misinformation to a handful of credulous reporters."

The statement also blamed journalists for not questioning the motives of the government's statements or its tactics.

"As an innocent man, and as our fellow citizen, Steven Hatfill deserved far better," they said.

The Justice Department said the settlement was in the best interest of the nation.

"The United States does not admit to any violation of the Privacy Act and continues to deny all liability in connection with Dr. Hatfill's claims," Justice Department spokesman Brian Roehrkasse said in response to the settlement.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/27/anthrax-doctors-suit-with_n_109684.html

pnorman

[Feron]

10. That's the least they can do..

The government made that man's life a living hell. It's obvious that they learned nothing from the Richard Jewel debacle.

Even worse is that there isn't any signs of it stopping. :(

[bonito]

11. And only 8 recs in 6 hrs is anybody home?

[lonestarnot]

12. Woot!

[Poll_Blind]

13. They should take as much as possible of this out of Ashcroft's pension.

  And then some!

PB

[mcctatas]

14. Just add it to the bushies tab...

If you don't laugh, you'll either shrivel up in a ball and wait for January, or go medieval on someone! "Feds to pay" my ghostly white Wisconsinite ass! :grr:

[progressoid]

15. Has this administration actually convicted any criminals in the last 7 years?

[UpInArms]

16. Dimson was taking Cipro before the Anthrax attacks

In October 2001, press reports revealed that White House staff had been on a regimen of the powerful antibiotic Cipro since the September 11th terrorist attacks. Judicial Watch is aggressively pursuing the disclosure of the facts and the decision for White House staff, and President Bush as well, to begin taking Cipro nearly a month before anthrax was detected on Capitol Hill.

“The American people deserve a full accounting from the Bush administration, the FBI , and other agencies concerning the anthrax attacks. The FBI’s investigation seems to have dead-ended, and frankly, that is not very reassuring given their performance with the September 11th hijackers,” stated Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry Klayman. “One doesn’t simply start taking a powerful antibiotic for no good reason. The American people are entitled to know what the White House staffers knew nine months ago, “ he added.

The FBI investigation on the anthrax attacks has been "dragging". Some weeks ago the agency announced that an arrest was imminent but nothing has been heard since. The investigation led to a Dr. Philip M. Zack at the U.S. Army's Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases in Fort Detrick, Md. La Voz de Aztlan published an article "FBI Closes in on Anthrax Terrorist : Prime Suspect is a Zionist" on February 26, 2002.

now why was that, do you think?

[Enrique]

18. ABC News link, with great punch line

http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/DOJ/Story?id=5264759&page=2

(...)

According to Homeland Security officials, President Bush occasionally asks how the investigation is proceeding during his morning intelligence briefing.


:rofl: