After eight months of one of the most intensive public and private investigations in American history, no one - no one - has come up with a shred of evidence that I had anything to do with the anthrax letters. I have never worked with anthrax. I know nothing about this matter.

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Back in the U. Patrick retired head of the old US bioweapons program (who had also been a mentor of Hatfill) to write a report on the possibilities of terrorist anthrax mailing attacks. On June 18 2002 Dr.

Dr. Hatfill later sued the government for ruining his reputation a case which the government settled for US$5.