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.
But its research portfolio became a high priority after the 2001 anthrax attacks.
The latest deaths bring the number of people killed by the spate of anthrax attacks in America to three.
During the anthrax attacks, the government's medical and scientific experts were not allowed to do much of the talking.
The best known example is ciprofloxacin, sold as Cipro, which made headlines as a treatment during the 2001 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.
"As we learn more about these anthrax attacks, the government will share the confirmed and credible information we have with you, " he said.
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.
Mail for members of Congress and the White House has been handled at off-site postal facilities since the 2001 anthrax attacks, which targeted Sen.
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.
Postal workers started handling mail at a site off Capitol Hill after the 2001 anthrax attacks that targeted then-Majority Leader Tom Daschle and Vermont Sen.
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.
In all, 22 people were sickened and five died after a series of anthrax attacks that targeted news agencies in New York and a congressional office building in Washington.
Apart from the paranoid wealthy (sales of an anti-anthrax drug, Cipro, boomed in Manhattan after the anthrax attacks there in 2001), few people will fork out for a supply of pharmaceutical insurance.
ARLINGTON, Virginia (CNN) -- A former Army bioweapons researcher who has been investigated in connection with last fall's deadly anthrax attacks said he is preparing several lawsuits related to his treatment in the inquiry.
At least 16 separate pieces of guidance have been sent out to key staff, covering issues ranging from how to deal with mass casualties to guidance on how to deal with smallpox or anthrax attacks.
Add this to the fact that Mr Daschle is now in effect the Democratic Party's leader, and the case is strengthened that the anthrax attacks are the work of a home-grown right-wing nutcase, rather than a global Islamic terrorist network.
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.
Capitol Hill has grown accustomed to tight security in the years since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and the subsequent anthrax and sniper attacks.
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.
CNN: Anthrax suspect, scientist, kills self as FBI closes in
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.
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