Stephen Hatfill

From 9/11 Encyclopedia:

During 2002, Stephen Hatfill (former USAMRIID, SAIC and Battelle -->) was one of the suspects of the FBI regarding the October 2001 anthrax attacks. From a former GROUND ZERO Forum article, released at Scoop: "For years, he had loudly complained the United States wasn't doing enough to prepare for a potential bioterror attack, and feared that his warnings weren't being heeded. Appearing on a cable TV news show, he warned that anthrax could be sent through the mail." Newsweek about Stephen Hatfill, Aug. 12, 2002 http://www.msnbc.com/news/789805.asp 

A list dating to December 2001 contains the names of 15 to 20 institutes that worked with the Ames strain of anthrax, which has been scientifically proven as the strain used in the anthrax attacks of autumn 2001. Microbiologist Paul Keim helped the authorities compare the genetic fingerprint of the mailed anthrax. Every indication was that it derived "at least indirectly from the mother lode of the military strain, kept at Fort Detrick, Md." http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/04/opinion/04KRIS.html?pagewanted=print 

Battelle was mentioned as one of the suspicious locations; another location was Porton Down in Britain, who has strong ties to Bioport (-> one of the anthrax vaccine developers) and Dynport, a cooperation between Dyncorp and PortonDown. It was William Patrick III from Fort Detrick, who started the first experiments with a modified anthrax strain at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Fort Detrick (Maryland). In July 2000, Colonel Edward M. Eitzen, became Commander of USAMRIID. He served in Operation Desert Storm as the DCCS and Surgeon of the 62nd Medical Group. http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/bw_ii/bw_refs/n23en034/index.html 

On October 11th, 2001, Eitzen testified as follows: "...I mentioned at the start of my statement, that potential biological terrorism is really a spectrum of possible events - from a letter with an inert powder and a threat in it...." http://intelligence.house.gov/PDF/eitzen101101.pdf 

The FBI stopped reporting about their anthrax investigation in December 2001. But after a couple of months, the pressure on them and Fort Detrick became stronger again. It looked far too strange that their investigation started to stall just as the Rosenberg list of suspicious institutes was released. Rosenberg claimed that the FBI already knew the name of a prime individual suspect in October 2001.

It took 8 months, however, before in June 2001 the FBI leaked for the first time the name of a suspect, who was believed to be either the man behind the attack or was being orchestrated by someone else: Stephen Hatfill, who once worked for Battelle. Hatfill worked at USAMRIID/Fort Detrick and knew William Patrick III. In 1999, he left USAMRIID for a job at SAIC (Scientific Applications International Corp.), a huge defense contractor where he did work detailing the risks of biological and chemical attacks. In 2001, the CIA rejected him for a job and the Pentagon suspended his existing security clearance... 
...By the first week of October 2001, the media had already been speculating for weeks about a possible anthrax attack. A "back story" had been established to suggest possible ties between the September 11 hijackers and an as-yet unconsummated biological aftermath. And then the anthrax attacks materialized.

Investigative journalist Wayne Madsen reports that on October 2, 2001 - just two days before the first anthrax case was reported in Boca Raton, Florida and a week and a half before the first anthrax was sent through the mail to NBC News in New York - Advanced Biosystems received an $800,000 grant from NIH to focus on very specific defenses against anthrax: http://www.counterpunch.org/madsenanthrax.html 

It looks now that a lot of different people had insider knowledge about a possible anthrax attack. It appears that the anthrax was produced and even sent before September 11th, with prior knowledge about this attack as well. Whether the idea was to work as a copycat effect or more, the obvious goal was definitely not to kill many people. It could be, that two people had been behind the anthrax mailings: the "supplier" and the "refiner/mailer". If Hatfill was the supplier, then who was the mailer? And why did they use two different refinements, one for the media and a more refined anthrax for the Senators? Why didn't the FBI interview other former USAMRIID scientists, e.g. Thomas Monath from Acambis, former Oravax? The FBI said that the anthrax spores sent to Tom Brokaw, the New York Post and American media were not as highly refined as those sent to Senators Daschle and Leahy. This indicates that some refining of the spores was done between the mailings. Another oddity is that someone told FBI agent Barry Mawn to stop the investigation on Tom Brokaw. It later came out, that Mawn already complained, that the anthrax might have come from the States. Mawn later retired from the FBI in March 2002. The same agent, who classified the famous "passport in the rubble" (by Satam Al Suqami) was obviously part of a plot. Nothing is known about his current whereabouts. Mawn was replaced by Kevin P. Donovan. http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel02/mueller022802.htm 

Mawn tried to get a job at Massport, Logan Airport, but decided to do something else. In the same month, FBI's assistant director Van Harp said in an CNN interview: "This anthrax, we do not believe, was made up in a garage or a bathtub." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/03/31/wthrax31.xml&sSheet=/news/2002/03/31/ixworld.html

Ignored by the mainstream media, Battellewas already an early suspect in October 2001 as well. First it was Michael P. Failey, a former Battelle employee, who was arrested twice. http://de.f130.mail.yahoo.com/ym/login?.rand=8d1s18jgg4gob But who else had knowledge about possible suspects? Or better, who knew too much? On November 12th 2001, famous BioScientist Don C Wiley (->) vanished in Memphis. 

His dead body was found six weeks later, 200 miles away, next to the Mississippi river. His death started a series about strange circumstances of suddenly killed BioScientists. Is it a coincidence, that only 2 days after Wiley vanished, Stephen Hatfill (Batelle) took a plane to England? And what about the strange death of Vladimir Pasechnik on November 21st, former director of the Institute of Ultra Pure Biochemical Preparations (BioPrep), who produced Anthrax as well? In December 2001 Battelle Memorial Institute confirmed, that the federal government is expected to spend with them $75.5 billion on R&D in 2002, a 4.7 percent increase over the prior year. http://www.battelle.org/news/02/01-01-02R&D.stm 

In the meantime, as Newsweek found out, Fort Detrick cleared his records, and Hatfill started a job at Louisiana State University. He still claims to be innocent, but didn't offer any new explanations yet. On August 11th 2002, Hatfill gave a public statement, that he is innocent. His lawyer Victor M. Glasberg (Glasberg & Associates), who defended a Ku-Klux clan member in September 2001, accused "lunatics on the Internet" of promoting the wrong guy. "...An Alexandria lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union yesterday defended a Ku Klux Klan member's right to wear a hood in public. Saying that the "ACLU has no love for the Ku Klux Klan, but does for the First Amendment," Victor M. Glasberg argued" http://www.ithaca.edu/faculty/cduncan/276/hernandez.doc

The FBI said that Hatfill is one of "around 20" people they are looking at. Who else? How much did Hatfill know? Is he just a scapegoat? What did Hatfill work on at the SAIC in 1999? What did Jerome Hauer work on at the SAIC in the same year? Did they work together? http://www.saic.com/news/nov99/news11-30a-99.html (Hauer)
http://www.nandotimes.com/nation/story/455218p-3643441c.html (Hatfill)

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