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DOJ Settles Hatfill Suit for $5.8 Million

Submitted by MacRonin on July 1, 2008 - 2:36pm.
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DOJ Settles Hatfill Suit for $5.8 Million - Via ABC News:

Ex-AG Implicated the Former Army Scientist in the 2001 Anthrax Attacks

The Justice Department has agreed to pay former Army scientist Steven Hatfill almost $6 million to settle his claims that the government violated his privacy rights during its investigation of the 2001 anthrax attacks.

In August 2002, then-Attorney General John Ashcroft named Hatfill as a person of interest in the mysterious mail attacks, which had further frightened a nation still reeling from the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that had been carried out just weeks before.

The anthrax attacks left five people dead and 17 sickened after mail containing the toxin arrived on Capitol Hill and at news organizations in Florida and New York.

Hatfill claimed the Justice Department had violated his rights because officials there spoke to reporters about the case. He was never charged in connection to the still-ongoing investigation.

(Read Original Article - Via ABC News.)


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