Part 1
6 Let’s get out of Africa. Hasn’t it been established that Hatfill had experience with and access to anthrax while he was working at Fort Detrick?

No. Hatfill maintains that he has never worked with anthrax bacteria or seen a sample of the organism outside of photographs. He further maintains that he knows nothing about either the bug or the disease it causes beyond what he has randomly picked up in the normal course of his scientific career — and, lately, in the normal course of reading about himself in the newspaper. So far as we know, these avowals remain completely uncontradicted. Which fact cannot by itself, however, resolve the question whether Hatfill might, while at Fort Detrick, have been able secretly to gain access to the installation’s anthrax and then steal a quantity of spores; it is next to impossible to prove that something can’t have happened. Still, the scenario seems more than a little dubious.