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The Interesting Dr. Hatfill
The Justice Department has come forward to explain that applying the term "person of interest" to Dr. Steven Hatfill with regard to the ongoing -- and going -- anthrax investigation is not intended to ID Hatfill as a person remotely interesting to investigators.
In fact, the term was intended to "deflect media scrutiny from Dr. Hatfill," assistant attorney general Daniel J. Bryant explained in a letter to Congress that could not have been written with a straight face.
Meanwhile, the FBI is back poking around Hatfill's one-time home town of Frederick, Maryland, this time looking for lab equipment supposedly ditched in park lands.
Let's stop the charade. Either the guy is a suspect or he isn't.
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|12.13.02 @ 9:00AM|#
I remember the day Hatfill was fired from his job; that same day, I think, VP Cheney went on tv and suggested that Iraq was the culprit....
|12.13.02 @ 11:38AM|#
Maybe if they had just put him on double-secret probation instead...