posted on September 4, 2002 12:41:13 PM new
There is a movie on right now about an attorney named Roy Cohn,who was instrumental in the the McCarthy hearings.The game was to just label anyone you dislike as being a commie.The more the innocents fought back,The more they became in total focus of the Fedral Gov. and of course Mr.Hoover.
This is a very old game,someone has to go down,to show everyone is doing their job.
Mr.Hatfill has not been charged with any crime,Doesnt matter,He has been destroyed.
Not only did Mr.Hatfill go down,But everyone kin to him and his girlfriend,and all his friends.
Dead man walking
By CHRISTOPHER NEWTON
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP)--Dr. Steven J. Hatfill's firing from Louisiana State University came after the Justice Department told the school it could not use him on projects funded by grants from the agency, which has called Hatfill a ``person of interest'' in the anthrax attacks.
LSU spokesman Gene Sands said Hatfill's supervisor, Steven Guillot, received an e-mail Aug. 1 directing him to ``cease and desist'' from using Hatfill on Justice Department-funded projects.
The next day, Hatfill was placed on administrative leave as director of LSU's National Center for Biomedical Research and Training. The center receives most of its money from the Justice Department.
Sands said Guillot did not alert senior administration officials to the e-mail until Tuesday, when Hatfill was fired by the university. Sands said the decision to fire Hatfill was made before senior school officials learned about the e-mail.
LSU Chancellor Mark A. Emmert made no mention of the e-mail in a statement Tuesday announcing Hatfill's firing.
``The university is making no judgment as to Dr. Hatfill's guilt or innocence regarding the FBI investigation,'' Emmert said.
``Our ultimate concerns are the ability of the university to fulfill its role and mission as a land-grant university,'' he said. ``In considering all of these objectives, I have concluded that it is clearly in the best interest of LSU to terminate this relationship.''
Department officials declined comment on the e-mail, though a law enforcement official confirmed it was sent.
Pat Clawson, Hatfill's spokesman, said he and Hatfill learned of the Justice Department e-mail on Wednesday. Clawson said it was an attempt to pressure Hatfill into a false confession.
``We're stunned to learn of this,'' Clawson said Wednesday. ``We're outraged. Blacklisting by the government is offensive and un-American. Obviously, (Attorney General John) Ashcroft wants to bring blacklisting back to the federal scene. Where was the due process?''
Clawson said Tuesday that LSU officials gave Hatfill no explanation for the firing.
Hatfill blamed the FBI's anthrax investigation for his termination.
``My life has been completely and utterly destroyed by John Ashcroft and the FBI,'' Hatfill said in a statement Tuesday. ``I do not understand why they are doing this to me. My professional reputation is in tatters. All I have left are my savings and they will be exhausted soon because of my legal bills.''
Five people were killed by anthrax-tainted letters sent through the mail last fall. The FBI has identified Hatfill as ``person of interest'' in its investigation but says he is no more or less important than about 30 fellow scientists and researchers with the expertise and opportunity to conduct the attacks.
Hatfill, however, has been treated differently. FBI and Postal Service agents searched his apartment in Frederick, Md., twice, the second time with a search warrant. His photo was the only one circulated last month in the Princeton, N.J., neighborhood where investigators believe the anthrax letters may have been sent.
Hatfill, 48, worked until 1999 for Fort Detrick's Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases in Maryland. It is the primary custodian of the virulent Ames strain of anthrax found in the anthrax letters.
Hatfill and another scientist, Joseph Soukup, commissioned a study of a hypothetical anthrax attack in February 1999 as employees of defense contractor Science Applications International Corp., said Ben Haddad, spokesman for the San Diego-based company.
posted on September 4, 2002 01:06:39 PM new
He may become a wealthy man like Richard Jewel who was accused of the Atlanta Olympics bombing. This has major lawsuit written all over it!
posted on September 4, 2002 01:41:10 PM new
This one is different,I think they put Jewel
in jail and charges? Maybe wrong on that.
The attorney for Hatfill can't get any info out of the FBI concerning his client.
So I don't think anything can be done untill the FBI shows their hand.If that is the case,This can be dragged out a long time.
posted on September 4, 2002 01:58:03 PM new
Answered my own question,Jewell was a suspect by the FBI and affter being the accused for almost 3 months,The FBI sent Jewell a letter saying he was no longer a suspect. This gave the Jewells attorneys
a weapon,(Kind of apology).Some of his
suits are on going,some have settled.
I doubt Hatfill will get a letter.
posted on September 4, 2002 04:50:14 PM new
A predictable side effect of treating people like this is that fewer of the desirable people they want to recruit will be willing to start a career with the agency - knowing that they will be required to act as they see the current agents acting - and having no stomach for it.
However it should attract all the marginal personalities that want to play junior gestapo.
posted on September 4, 2002 05:05:04 PM new
Junquemama, that article from the Chicago Sun Times is an eyeopener indeed. You have the right to an informed opinion -Harlan Ellison
posted on September 4, 2002 05:52:54 PM new
Gravid,Looks like the FBI has plenty of those junior gestapos.They just picked up several more thru a big hire a few months back.(thousands?) Ah, the new generation is
loose,Hopefully some will have some common sense........Hopefully.
posted on September 4, 2002 06:03:05 PM new
Snowy,I caught Hatfills press conference
last week. A gazillion reporters in the mans face.He didnt flinch,and only became emotional telling and showing the pictures of what was done to his girl friends apartment.She was in the middle of a move and had everything in boxes,boxes destroyed,and contents thrown everywhere,some destroyed.
