Glad to see that Dr. Hatfeild survived the FBI's antics and that he was able to get 5.81 mil payout from Gubmint...[you and I]
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| BREAKING: Anthrax scientist commits suicide as FBI closes in |
| 2008-08-01 |
| A big one, too. WASHINGTON - A top U.S. biodefense researcher apparently committed suicide just as the Justice Department was about to file criminal charges against him in the anthrax mailings that traumatized the nation in the weeks following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, according to a published report. The scientist, Bruce E. Ivins, 62, who worked for the past 18 years at the government's biodefense labs at Fort Detrick, Md., had been told about the impending prosecution, the Los Angeles Times reported for Friday editions. The laboratory has been at the center of the FBI's investigation of the anthrax attacks, which killed five people. |
| Posted by:Atomic Conspiracy |
| #22 Glad to see that Dr. Hatfeild survived the FBI's antics and that he was able to get 5.81 mil payout from Gubmint...[you and I] |
| Posted by: Red Dawg 2008-08-01 19:54 |
| #21 "I sung"? I know I'm a bit of a grammar fiend, but it's sing, sang, has sung. My only hope is that 'twas the journalist who made the error. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-08-01 19:16 |
| #20 "Traumatized the nation"? It sure the hell did. Most expected wholesale attacks. And that belief was reasonable. |
| Posted by: Jotch Fillmore2862 2008-08-01 19:14 |
| #19 I knew Bruce at the time (late 1980's)...and I don't recall him being a nut-job... According to this, his therapist took out a restraining order on him last week, saying that he'd made specific threats. It also says that he has had "issues" since his graduate days, and that he'd recently been committed (sounds like voluntarily committed) to some sort of mental facility (this one, if it means anything to those in the area). I saw this in a LA Times article, which I can't find now, but here's a repeat from the SF Chronicle. His brother says:
Lots of stuff coming up on Google news now. |
| Posted by: Angie Schultz 2008-08-01 19:00 |
| #18 It's not the spores, it's what coated the spores. |
| Posted by: Plastic Snoopy 2008-08-01 16:40 |
| #17 Channelling Emily Latella "Never mind" ...have a nice weekend. |
| Posted by: Rob06 2008-08-01 16:08 |
| #16 I was commenting on the title, Rob06. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2008-08-01 16:02 |
| #15 That's not what I said. I said one person was capable of doing it. Take it easy Grom. |
| Posted by: Rob06 2008-08-01 15:51 |
| #14 No. It's called an 'anecdote'. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2008-08-01 15:50 |
| #13 And that proves he was guilty? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2008-08-01 15:39 |
| #12 I'm certain that one person could have done this. I worked at USAMRIID, in the Bacteriology department where this guy worked. It would not have been difficult to remove several vials of frozen Anthrax from the hot suite - which was only P3 then - probalby higher now. I knew Bruce at the time (late 1980's), not well but I knew who he was. He hadn't completed his PHD work then, and I don't recall him being a nut-job, but 20 years is a long time. The article suggests to me that he had some type of mental illness. |
| Posted by: Rob06 2008-08-01 15:35 |
| #11 There is no way that one guy did that on his own, whether Hatfill or Ivins. The Senate anthrax needed state support to prepare. |
| Posted by: Plastic Snoopy 2008-08-01 14:38 |
| #10 How long will it be before the Conspiracy Nutballs claim he was done in and it made to look like suicide in order to protect Bushitler? |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2008-08-01 14:35 |
| #9 Hatfill was awarded $5.81 mil payout. I don't think he suffered much. He's still employed at the lab isn't he ? No. |
| Posted by: .5MT 2008-08-01 11:43 |
| #8 Given the option of suicide, or bankrupting your family and loss of pension benefits he did the right thing. People died. The suicide looks too much like an admission of guilt. I suspect the survivors' attorneys will be bringing sufficient civil suits against the estate that there won't be much left after defence attorneys' fees are paid, let alone damages found. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2008-08-01 11:08 |
| #7 I take it you've never been shunned by all around you, and doubted by those you love, Woozle Elmeter 2700. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-08-01 11:03 |
| #6 Hatfill was awarded $5.81 mil payout. I don't think he suffered much. He's still employed at the lab isn't he ? |
| Posted by: Woozle Elmeter 2700 2008-08-01 09:47 |
| #5 Given the option of suicide, or bankrupting your family and loss of pension benefits he did the right thing. There is no guarantee that he was the one, and he might not have had the strength to survive the circus that was to come, or he might have wanted to spare his wife the trauma. He could have been the next Dr. Hatfill, and I am sure that Dr.Hatfill for the return of the wasted years of his life would gladly exchange all the money he might receive. Few of us could have survived such an auto da fe. |
| Posted by: pilgrim 2008-08-01 09:42 |
| #4 If it's as easy for the top biodefense researcher working for the US government to jet off to Iran to avoid extradition as it is to swallow a handful of pills, we've got bigger problems. |
| Posted by: Lumpy Gleth5015 2008-08-01 09:20 |
| #3 I wasn't aware that you tell people that you're about to prosecute them. He committed suicide but he as easily could have run off to a country that lacks extradition to the U.S. -- say, for example, Iran. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2008-08-01 08:27 |
| #2 Sounds like they know everything but WHY? |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-08-01 08:14 |
| #1 FBI favorite "person of interest" Dr. Steven Hatfill, said only: "told ya so" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-08-01 08:09 |