Weaponizing Government Intelligence Agencies Against
The Russia Hoax: The Illicit Scheme to Clear Hillary Clinton and Frame Donald Trump, by Gregg Jarrett, New York: Broadside, 2018, 289 pages, hardcover.
In 2001, five people were killed owing to letters laced with anthrax. Federal Bureau of Investigation agents targeted Steven Hatfill, despite concerns that the pursuit of Hatfill could be a replay of the Richard Jewell case — the security guard wrongly accused of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing. Carl Cannon of Real Clear Politics recalled the case: “[Robert] Mueller, who micromanaged the anthrax case … personally assured [Attorney General John] Ashcroft” that the FBI “had its man.”
Mueller’s aide and fellow FBI investigator James Comey assured skeptics that they were “absolutely certain” they were not making a mistake with their pursuit of Hatfill. As it turns out, they were wrong, and it eventually cost the taxpayers almost six million dollars in a legal settlement.
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