ABC News: “The Justice Department has agreed to pay former Army scientist Dr. Steven Hatfill almost $6 million to settle his claims that the government violated his privacy rights during its investigation of the 2001 anthrax attacks.”

Remember Dr. Hatfill? He was the guy the FBI and every other Federal agency was pointing a finger at as being responsible for the anthrax that was sent out in the mails. Now he’s getting $6 million bucks of our tax money and deserves every penny.

Back a couple weeks before the anthrax B.S. started, I started hearing on the radio and T.V. that we were going to have anthrax attacks and I wondered, “How did they know?” This was shortly after 9/11, you may recall, and G. W. Bush was pushing hard for an invasion of Iraq.

Anyway, the fear bleat went on, like I said, for several weeks before anything happened, and the first person to receive actual anthrax spores in the mail was none other than Tom Daschle, who was G. W. Bush’s most outspoken critic at the time! Gee, whut an uhmazin coinkydink, hunnh?

Other envelopes of spores were sent out, people died, the “investigation” wandered from hill to dale around the country and was finally, so they claimed, tracked to a curbside mailbox in Princeton, New Jersey. Suddenly the search went cold at the very same time that it was quietly announced in a few small publications that the spores had been tested for DNA and the DNA of that particular batch of anthrax came from a United States military biological weapons lab. OOOPS! No more investigation, that was it, no further news releases ever again. The search for the source of the anthrax was abandoned.

Back to Dr. Hatfill … remember Dr. Hatfill? This is about Dr. Hatfill. All during this supposed search for the dirty rotten terrorist traitor type who was spreading anthrax around the country, this poor guy was singled out as THE “Person Of Interest”. He lost his job, in fact his career was destroyed, no one would hire him, Dr. Steven Hatfill went through Hell. This was about seven years ago and he’s been fighting to get his reputation restored ever since. Dr. Hatfill did in fact work in the field of biological agents for the military and he did work at Fort Detrick, MD, where the anthrax was eventually traced back to. He also had overstated his resume’ by one degree, a common practice, and because there’d been a number of hoax anthrax mailings in the US, he and SAIC  (backwards is CIA’s) V.P. Joseph Soukup commissioned William C Patrick, retired head of the old US bioweapons program (who had also been a mentor of Dr. Hatfill) to write a report on the possibilities of terrorist anthrax mailing attacks. This CIA sponsored report was a virtual blueprint for the anthrax mailings. Dr. Hatfill was expendable and they needed someone to blame.

“Dr. Hatfill got the Richard Jewell treatment, only worse. Jewell was the security guard at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics who spotted the knapsack bomb and moved people away before the explosion. Lacking a suspect, the FBI theorized that Jewell planted the bomb himself in order to gain attention by becoming a hero.

The FBI had no evidence whatsoever against Jewell, but neither ethics, professional integrity nor the lack of evidence prevented a steady stream of leaks to an obedient media insinuating that Jewell was the bomber.

The FBI was never held accountable for its abuse of power. Consequently, the FBI felt free to treat Dr. Hatfill more brutally. FBI agents told Dr. Hatfill’s fiancee and his associates that he was a murderer. FBI agents terrorized Dr. Hatfill’s fiancee and ransacked her apartment, hoping that fear would cause her to end her ordeal by going along with FBI charges against Dr. Hatfill.”

Isn’t that nice how our FBI sometimes guards our freedoms by terrorizing innocent citizens to force them to help put other innocent people in prison? Fortunately for Jewell, his attorneys were able to fight the FBI off and he ended up winning a variety of lawsuits and out-of-court settlements against various media. One Eric Robert Rudolph was later found to have been the bomber. Now it’s finally Dr. Steven Hatfills turn to be out from under the FBI’s thuggery.

The FBI has always worn a lot of masks. Most of the time they’re actually protecting us by rounding up criminals and breaking up their organizations, but sometimes they also use their power to do the often evil bidding of corrupt politicians.  Dr. Hatfill was in the wrong place at the right time. He fudged on his resume’, he was involved in the writing of a government report on the possibilities of terrorist anthrax mailing attacks. There is a possible finger of suspicion pointing at him except for that one important fact:

 The announcement nearly two weeks ahead of time by our government that anthrax attacks were imminent. How could they possibly have known unless the attacks were planned in advance to drum up support for the Iraq invasion?