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LSU Fires Dr. Hatfill Phil Brennan, NewsMax.comThe painful ordeal of Dr. Steven Hatfill continued Tuesday when Louisiana State University announced they had fired the bioterrorism expert without giving any explanation for the move except to say that it was in their best interests to do so. Although the FBI has stressed that Hatfill is not a suspect in the anthrax letter investigation and has admitted it has no evidence linking him to the crime, Attorney General John Ashhcroft has described him as "a person of interest” along with as many as 30 other scientists under investigation. But thanks to the Bureau’s open harassment of non-suspect Hatfill, including leaking stories to the media unfavorable to him, some proven utterly false and others having no relevance to the case, conducting two very public searches of his apartment and telling his girlfriend that he had murdered five people, Hatfill’s life has been all but destroyed. In firing Hatfill, LSU’s chancellor refused to explain what led him to make the decision. "The university is making no judgment as to Dr. Hatfill's guilt or innocence regarding the FBI investigation," Chancellor Mark A. Emmert announced in a brief statement released to the media Tuesday. "Our ultimate concerns are the ability of the university to fulfill its role and mission as a land-grant university," Emmert’s statement said. "In considering all of these objectives, I have concluded that it is clearly in the best interest of LSU to terminate this relationship."
Dr. Hatfill, who was on a 30-day paid suspension from his new assignment as associate director of the National Center for Biomedical Research and Training at LSU has repeatedly denied he had any connection with the anthrax letter attacks that killed five people and sickened a number of others. "My life has been completely and utterly destroyed by John Ashcroft and the FBI," Hatfill said. "I do not understand why they are doing this to me. My professional reputation is in tatters. All I have left are my savings and they will be exhausted soon because of my legal bills," Hatfill said in a statement released by his friend and spokesman Pat Clawson. Victor Glasberg, Hatfill's lawyer, told Reuters that his client would not fight the decision. "This is an understandable and regrettable result of the defamation that he has had to deal with over the past couple of months and he will contend with it," Glasberg said.
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