Later that year, he led breaking news reporting on a series of anthrax attacks.
For example, it is likely that Florida is better prepared for hurricanes than anthrax attacks.
"Dr. Hatfill had nothing to do with the horrific anthrax attacks, " Hatfill attorney Thomas Connolly said.
Hatfill, 48, has repeatedly said he had nothing to do with last year's anthrax attacks.
The anthrax vaccine development project was on its way to being cancelled by the U.S. before the 2001 anthrax attacks.
After the anthrax attacks of 2001, America created the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) to advise the health department.
He has not been charged with anything related to the anthrax attacks and the FBI maintains he is not officially a suspect.
Some of the lawmaker who lived through the anthrax attacks are still in Congress today, and they're working in a very different political landscape.
More than a decade after the anthrax attacks, the government has a multibillion-dollar stockpile of drugs and vaccines to fight an array of threats.
The researcher, Steven Hatfill, 48, had previously been questioned in the investigation of last fall's anthrax attacks and had his apartment searched in June.
Hatfill has steadfastly maintained that he had no involvement in the anthrax attacks that came on the heels of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
"The FBI can search the planet until hell freezes over but it will find that Steve Hatfill was never involved in the anthrax attacks, " Clawson said.
Investigators have turned up no physical evidence linking Hatfill to the anthrax attacks, according to federal sources, and say they don't consider him a suspect in the case.
Fan mail -- that old barometer of an entertainer's popularity -- has become off-limits for many in Hollywood since the anthrax mail attacks in New York City, Washington and Florida.
The FBI had traced the anthrax used in the attacks to the lab, the U.S. Army Medical Institute of Infectious Diseases, one of CNN's sources said.
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The FBI had traced the anthrax used in the attacks to the lab using a new genetic technology, a U.S. official familiar with the investigation said.
It is a human monoclonal antibody that attacks the toxins anthrax bacteria spew out.
The FBI has yet to make any direct connection between the September 11 terrorist attacks and the anthrax letters.
He told reporters two weeks ago that he had nothing to do with the attacks, had never worked with anthrax and had been told by the FBI that he had passed a polygraph test and was not a suspect.
Investigators in the United States say they have found no evidence linking the presence of anthrax at the offices of a supermarket tabloid publisher in Florida with the attacks against the United States.
In an ironic twist, the likely perpetrator of the attacks, Bruce Ivins, was allegedly motivated by his interest in reviving the anthrax vaccine program.
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