[Southack]

Hatfill would do better by hanging himself than by leaving the country. His *only* shot of beating the frame up is to stay here and fight.

The number of people, governments, and agencies that would benefit from a dead Hatfill in a foreign land would fill a phone book.

He's a right-wing, White-male Rhodesian, for crying out loud! He's got more enemies than can possibly be counted.

Being innocent is no defense in this game, kid. Stop and think about what nonsense you are spouting.

The AWB Has Expired - Gun Owners Have Won Again For All Americans!

[TrebleRebel]

It's all coming out now.......
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/08/readersopinions/08anthrax.html?ex=1097899200&en=d11b997659fd790c&ei=5006&partner=ALTAVISTA1


Anthrax Inquiry Draws Criticism From Federal Judge
By SCOTT SHANE

Published: October 8, 2004


ASHINGTON, Oct. 7 - A federal judge who reviewed a classified update on the F.B.I. investigation of anthrax-laced letters that killed five people in 2001 said on Thursday that he saw little chance of the case's being solved in the next six months.

"Candidly, from my review of the classified information, it doesn't seem to me that anything is going to happen in the near future that's going to change the status quo," said Judge Reggie B. Walton of United States District Court. The judge is handling a lawsuit filed against the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Justice Department by a former Army bioweapons expert, Dr. Steven J. Hatfill.

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Elizabeth J. Shapiro, a lawyer in the civil division of the Justice Department, did not dispute the judge's conclusion but emphasized the difficulty in finding the anthrax attacker.

"This is perhaps the most extraordinary investigation the F.B.I. has ever engaged in, and the most complex," Ms. Shapiro said.

The exchange took place at a hearing on the government's effort to postpone Dr. Hatfill's lawsuit, which claims that illegal leaks from F.B.I. and Justice officials destroyed his reputation and left him unemployable. He has been named as a "person of interest" in the anthrax case.

Raising his voice, Judge Walton said: "If you don't have enough information to indict this man, it's wrong to drag his name again and again through the mud. That's not a government I want to be part of."

Dr. Hatfill filed a defamation lawsuit in July against The New York Times and its columnist Nicholas D. Kristof for columns about him. A spokesman for The Times said when the suit was filed that it lacked merit and would be defended vigorously.