{"id":3694,"date":"2002-08-25T15:30:39","date_gmt":"2002-08-25T20:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=3694"},"modified":"2021-02-28T11:34:33","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T16:34:33","slug":"steven-hatfill-to-sue-nicholas-kristof-over-polygraph-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2002\/08\/25\/steven-hatfill-to-sue-nicholas-kristof-over-polygraph-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Hatfill to Sue Nicholas Kristof over Polygraph Claim?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>In an article titled, <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20021005005425\/http:\/\/www.drudgereport.com\/kristof.htm\">&#8220;<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.drudgereport.com\/kristof.htm\">Anthrax &#8216;Subject&#8217; Explores Filing Lawsuit against NYT Columnist for &#8216;Malicious Lies'&#8221;<\/a> Internet writer Matthew Drudge reports that anthrax investigation &#8220;person of interest&#8221; Dr. Steven J. Hatfill is contemplating a lawsuit against <em>New York Times<\/em> columnist Nicholas D. Kristof. Excerpt: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>A foreshadow of legal fireworks over what has been reported about the Department of Justice&#8217;s anthrax &#8220;Subject of Interest&#8221; Steven Hatfill emerged Sunday after the germ warfare specialist declared to the cameras: &#8220;I am not the anthrax killer!&#8221;<\/p><p>Sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT that Hatfill has told his lawyers he wants to sue the NEW YORK TIMES and its terror columnist Nicholas Kristof for reporting last week: Hatfill has &#8220;failed three successive polygraph examinations since January.&#8221;<\/p><p>&#8220;This is a total lie,&#8221; Hatfill warned on Sunday. &#8220;I have not taken, let alone failed, three polygraphs on Anthrax since January. I had one polygraph session which the FBI did administer to me in January, and I was told I passed, and the examiner was satisfied that I had told the truth. Mr. Kristof never called me about this allegation, nor did he call my attorney.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an article titled, &#8220;Anthrax &#8216;Subject&#8217; Explores Filing Lawsuit against NYT Columnist for &#8216;Malicious Lies&#8217;&#8221; Internet writer Matthew Drudge reports that anthrax investigation &#8220;person of interest&#8221; Dr. Steven J. Hatfill is contemplating a lawsuit against New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof. Excerpt: A foreshadow of legal fireworks over what has been reported about the &#8230;<\/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":[82,30,84],"class_list":{"0":"post-3694","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-anthrax","8":"tag-fbi","9":"tag-terrorism","10":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3694","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=3694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3695,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3694\/revisions\/3695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}