... 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.
Maybe, 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.
Every 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?
And 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.
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.
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.