Not good enough. It’s the American taxpayers who are paying for this, not those who are responsible...
Until the government officials who order and implement these kinds of persecutions are held personally accountable and suffer some consequences for their abuses of office, we’ll just keep getting more of these debacles which the taxpayers will have to pay for...
He should get ten times as much for what they put him through. I remember him standing on the steps. He was credible and believable and they tried to pin it on him alone. Who ever is really responsible is still out there, waiting to terrorize us again.
I am not hopeful of any accountability , but I would like to see the contempt sanctions still imposed . I have seen judges punish for contempt even after a case is dismissed , and I do not want any more acceptance of the phony journalist privilege .
Ping.
The Hatfill case is much worse, however, than some random vendetta being pursued by a few rogue officials.
The FBI had been politicized and corrupted beyond belief by the Clinton administration. Under Clinton, Janet Reno ran the Justice Department as if it were an extension of the Clinton political machine. Every event, even though with National Security implications had to first be turned into an opportunity used to benefit the Clinton’s political fortunes.
In this environment, the FBI became a willfully obtuse agency that refused to “connect the dots” after the first World Trade Center bombing, the TWA flight 800 “crash”, and the bombing of the Murrah Federal building. 9/11 was partially attributable to our “deaf, dumb and blind” FBI.
The FBI’s prime mandate after the anthrax attacks was not to dispassionately seek the truth of the identity of the perpetrator but to quickly fasten on the domestic terrorist theory. This theory was pursued with dogged obsessiveness in spite of the overwhelming evidence that argued against it.
There were multiple available clues and investigative threads that pointed toward involvement of a foreign intelligence service with access to weapons grade anthrax. But these threads went cold as the politicized hacks of the FBI went about persecuting the hapless Dr. Hatfill. This same pattern of using leaks and intimidation was seen in the case of the equally hapless Richard Jewell in Atlanta pipe bomb case.
A politicized and incompetent FBI will produce more Hatfill and Jewell cases and will be singularly unable to ferret out real domestic terror cells.