{"id":3663,"date":"2002-08-13T15:30:34","date_gmt":"2002-08-13T20:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=3663"},"modified":"2021-02-28T11:34:33","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T16:34:33","slug":"anthrax-doctor-failed-lie-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2002\/08\/13\/anthrax-doctor-failed-lie-test\/","title":{"rendered":"“‘Anthrax’ Doctor Failed Lie Test”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Niles Lathem reports<\/a> for the New York Post.<\/em> Excerpt: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

WASHINGTON – A month before the first anthrax-laced letters were mailed, the bio-warfare expert now at the center of the probe failed a CIA-administered polygraph test over questions surrounding his mysterious past with a secret commando force in Rhodesia, The Post has learned.<\/p>

Dr. Steven Hatfill, 48, the former Army bio-weapons expert publicly named as a “person of interest” in the federal anthrax probe, told friends and colleagues that flunking the lie-detector test cost him his security clearance and his job.<\/p>

FBI officials say they have no physical evidence that connects Hatfill to the letters mailed last September and October.<\/p>

But Hatfill remains one of 12 bio-warfare scientists under investigation, and law-enforcement officials say the loss of his job at the giant defense contractor Science Applications International Corp. remains a focus of the investigation.<\/p>

Hatfill called a press conference Sunday to deny he was responsible and to blast the government for destroying his career.<\/p>

He said he lost his job at the McClean, Va.-based firm in March because journalists began calling company officials, “all but accusing me of mailing the anthrax letters.”<\/p>

But law-enforcement officials and Hatfill’s former colleagues at the company gave a different account.<\/p>

They claimed that in August 2001, Hatfill had an opportunity to work on a huge CIA-sponsored project for the company and had to “upgrade” his low-level government security clearance for the job.<\/p>

But when Hatfill failed the polygraph, even his existing clearance was revoked.<\/p>

Company officials say they gave him six months to get it restored, and fired him in March because he was unable to do so.<\/p>

The CIA has refused comment on the polygraph.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Niles Lathem reports for the New York Post. Excerpt: WASHINGTON – A month before the first anthrax-laced letters were mailed, the bio-warfare expert now at the center of the probe failed a CIA-administered polygraph test over questions surrounding his mysterious past with a secret commando force in Rhodesia, The Post has learned. Dr. Steven Hatfill, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[82,66,39,30,84],"class_list":{"0":"post-3663","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-anthrax","8":"tag-cia","9":"tag-dragnet","10":"tag-fbi","11":"tag-terrorism","12":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3664,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3663\/revisions\/3664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}