Comment by Fascist Nation

Entered on: 6/29/2008 11:59:24 AM

The picture highlighting the link to this rticle is Richard Jewell, the hero of the Atlanta Olympics, who discovered a bomb and got many, many people away before it exploded. Only to be arrested by the FBI, slandered by psychological profile into being the bomber himself.

He was later completely exonerated, but not before having his honor dragged through the mud. He died early, but he died a hero.

While I cannot lump Dr. Hatfill into quite the same category, he was equally vilified by the FBI, DOJ and press for being the one who had brought a Canadian study to the attention of the government after the anthrax mailings that forewarned of this method of dispersion. He worked as an unrelated virologist at the same place the anthrax bacteria probably came from. He pretty much had his career destroyed.