44 Facts About Steven Hatfill

Steven Jay Hatfill was born on October 24,1953 and is an American pathologist and biological weapons expert.

Steven Hatfill became the subject of extensive media coverage beginning in mid-2002, when he was a suspect in the 2001 anthrax attacks.

Steven Hatfill's home was repeatedly raided by the FBI, his phone was tapped, and he was extensively surveilled for more than two years; he was terminated from his job at Science Applications International Corporation.

At a news conference in August 2002, Hatfill denied that he had anything to do with the anthrax letters and said "irresponsible news media coverage based on government leaks" had "destroyed his reputation".

Steven Hatfill filed a lawsuit in 2003, accusing the FBI agents and Justice Department officials who led the criminal investigation of leaking information about him to the press in violation of the Privacy Act.

In 2004, Steven Hatfill filed lawsuits against several periodicals and journalists who had identified him as a figure warranting further investigation in the anthrax attacks.

Steven Hatfill sued New York Times Company and New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof for defamation, defamation per se, and intentional infliction of emotional distress in connection with five of Kristof's columns in 2002.

The courts dismissed this suit, finding that Steven Hatfill was a limited purpose public figure.

In 2007, Steven Hatfill settled a similar libel lawsuit against Vanity Fair and Reader's Digest for an undisclosed amount, after both magazines agreed to formally retract any implication that Steven Hatfill was involved in the anthrax mailings.

In 2010, Steven Hatfill was an independent researcher and an adjunct assistant professor of emergency medicine at the George Washington University Medical Center.

Steven Hatfill has criticized the response of health authorities to the Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa and suggested that it is possible that Ebola could be transmitted by aerosol, a position which other experts have criticized.

Steven Hatfill was born in Saint Louis, Missouri, and graduated from Mattoon Senior High School, Mattoon, Illinois, and Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas, where he studied biology.

Steven Hatfill was enlisted as a private in the US Army from 1975 to 1977.

Steven Hatfill worked as a medical missionary in Kapanga, Zaire under a mentor, Dr Glenn Eschtruth, who was murdered there in 1977.

In 1978, Steven Hatfill settled in Rhodesia and entered the Godfrey Huggins Medical School at the University of Rhodesia in Salisbury.

Steven Hatfill then worked in 1997 to 1999 as a civilian researcher at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, the US Department of Defense's medical research institute for biological warfare defense at Fort Detrick, Frederick, Maryland.

In January 1999 Steven Hatfill transferred to a "consulting job" at Science Applications International Corporation, which has a "sprawling campus" in nearby McLean, Virginia.

Steven Hatfill posted "Analysis of the Anthrax Attacks" to the FAS web site on January 17,2002.

Steven Hatfill, who researched viruses, vehemently denied having any connection to the anthrax mailings and sued the FBI, the Justice Department, John Ashcroft, Alberto Gonzales, and others for violating his constitutional rights and the Privacy Act.

Steven Hatfill later went to work at Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

The New York Times stated that Steven Hatfill had obtained an anti-anthrax medicine immediately prior to the anthrax mailings.

The omission in the Times' article, of the reason why he had been taking Cipro, is one reason Steven Hatfill sued the newspaper.

The federal government opposed Steven Hatfill's move as an impermissible expansion of discovery.

In June 2003, Hatfill sued The New York Times Company and Nicholas D Kristof for defamation in Virginia state court.

Steven Hatfill alleged that Kristof had published columns implying that he was responsible for the anthrax mailings, and thus defamed him.

Steven Hatfill refiled the suit in federal court in July 2004, alleging defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

The court held that Steven Hatfill was either a "public figure" or "public official" and thus could only prevail in a defamation suit if the defendants acted with actual malice, and that Steven Hatfill could not demonstrate that Kristof had acted with actual malice.

Steven Hatfill later wrote an article for Vanity Fair about his investigation of Hatfill.

In 2004, Steven Hatfill sued Foster and Conde Nast Publications, alleging defamation.

Steven Hatfill sued The Reader's Digest Association.

Steven Hatfill obtained from Google the IP address behind the blog of one "Luigi Warren" hosted by Google's Blogspot web-hosting service.

Since the settlements of his legal cases, which included receiving $5.8 million from the Justice Department and undisclosed sums from Conde Nast and the South African medical researcher, Steven Hatfill has pursued activities as an independent researcher.

Steven Hatfill was appointed an adjunct assistant professor of emergency medicine at the George Washington University Medical Center in 2010.

Steven Hatfill has allocated more than $1 million of his own money to construct a full-scale prototype of what he calls Beagle III.

Steven Hatfill had thrown in a roof-mounted cosmic ray detector, which would switch on near the equator to capture data on "high-energy cosmic ray showers".

Steven Hatfill owns a colonial-style brick home in Marion County, Florida as well as a property in the El Yunque rain forest, in Puerto Rico, where he has run a military-style Outward Bound-like program.

Steven Hatfill has established Templar Associates II, a for-profit corporation in Puerto Rico as a revenue-generator and as an "environmental testing ground for new tactics, techniques, equipment, and procedures for ABSOG's designated mission as well as for the US military".

Steven Hatfill is medical director of EFP Tactical Medical Group, a London-based company that provides integrated training, security and tactical medical support services to government agencies, private corporations, and NGOs worldwide.

In 2014, Steven Hatfill publicly criticized the response of US public health authorities to the Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa and suggested that it is possible that Ebola could be transmitted by aerosol, an assertion which other experts have disputed; his views on this have been characterized as misrepresentations of the primary scientific literature by other experts.

In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Steven Hatfill was interviewed on several right-wing media outlets including Stephen Bannon's War Room: Pandemic, The Epoch Times, and Sinclair Broadcast Group's Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson.

Steven Hatfill opposed the US response to the pandemic, particularly the exclusion of hydroxychloroquine for early treatment of COVID-19, making unproven claims that the low fatality rate experienced by some nations is the result of their early use of the drug.

In February 2020, Steven Hatfill became an unpaid "volunteer" advisor to White House trade director Peter Navarro on the subject of the coronavirus pandemic.

Steven Hatfill interacted directly with senior officials at the Department of Health and Human Services, the Food and Drug Administration, and the White House, and he represented the administration in dealings with health care companies.

Steven Hatfill repeatedly attacked Anthony Fauci and FDA commissioner Stephen Hahn, at one point telling Fauci that he was "full of crap".