Washington, D.C.
An FBI agent on surveillance detail ran over bioweapons expert Steven Hatfill’s foot this week. Hatfill is the former Army scientist the FBI has named as a “person of interest” in the investigation into the 2001 anthrax attacks that killed five people. The trail of that investigation recently grew hot when investigators found in a lake near Hatfill’s home a sealed box that could have been used to prepare anthrax-filled envelopes. As the the scientist and his girlfriend strolled in the Georgetown section of Washington this week, they noticed an FBI agent tailing them. Hatfill walked over to photograph the agent in his parked car, but the agent at the wheel drove off, rolling over Hatfill’s foot and knocking him down. “This is harassment, not surveillance,” said Pat Clawson, a spokesman for Hatfill. “This is in-your-face harassment.”
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