The scariest thing about this is not the anthrax release itself, but the way your life can be destroyed even though as an American, you are supposed to have “civil rights” and be “innocent until proven gulity” and not the other way around… A true example of a “witch hunt” if there ever was one…
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So the here-say, rantings and unfounded accusations of a whack-job journalist who happened to write for the New York Times was all the FBI needed to ruin this guys life. And then the Justice Department/FBI engage in these looney-tunes investigative techniques including bringing in the ‘hounds’? Bravo John Ashcroft!
At least the guy won his invasion of privacy suit against the Government. Little good that does him now.
Then after Steven Hatfeld’s lawsuit, his reputation damaged forever, they drive Bruce Ivans to commit suicide.
He did it because he was in therapy and worked late at night and he liked sorority girls and he played with stun guns and they found women’s underwear….FAIL FAIL FAIL