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The Wrong Man
- barrkel 16y agoAnd as pointed out here: http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/04/21/hatfill http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/04/21... ... the evidence against the newer suspect Bruce Ivins (which actually did result in suicide), is similarly circumstantial but the government is dead set against anyone questioning that suspicion.
- dminor 16y agoMaybe, but the circumstantial evidence against Ivins is far more damning that anything they had on Hatfill. > Ivins had been the sole custodian of a large flask of highly purified anthrax spores genetically linked to those found in the letters. He had allegedly submitted purposely misleading lab data to the FBI in an attempt to hide the fact that the strain of anthrax used in the attacks was a genetic match with the anthrax in his possession.
- billswift 16y agoWho did the genetic matching? The same FBI labs that were well known for making up results to support their cases?
- apphacker 16y agoI have trouble feeling bad for someone who works with biological weapons.
- kevingadd 16y agoEvery time I start to think that our country might be on a trajectory towards improvement, a story like this comes along to throw that out the window. It really astounds me that Dr. Hatfill managed to put up with the abuse for so long without doing anything irrational - just reading about it makes me understand why someone would want to mail anthrax to the government. Imagine how many innocent people might have been subjected to similar treatment without our knowledge, simply because - like Dr. Ivins - they didn't manage to survive?
- ovi256 16y agoAnd what about the press, who did nothing like their supposed role of objective observers, but simply served as a propaganda, shame and social torture machine. Truly disgraceful.
- Herring 16y agoWhy didn't he move? First thing I would have done is skipped town to Japan or something, & maybe come back after a decade.
- Estragon 16y agoFor the same reason he didn't suicide: he knew he hadn't done it, and he wasn't going to give those lazy, dumb sons of bitches the satisfaction.
- Herring 16y agoHis loss then, 10 years of torture, basically. You don't play around with people that powerful.
- Estragon 16y agoYou don't play around with people that powerful. He did get approximately $6 million in a settlement with the DOJ. Sounds like an explicit exoneration and a humiliating defeat for his transgressors, to me.
- Herring 16y agoOk, but how many people never get the settlement? And it's not like any of the people in power learned anything. That's tax money.