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Today I have an interview with an expert named Dr Stephen Hatfill about why he says COVID-19 was just a taste of

pandemics to come. If you know the name Dr Stephen Hatfill, it might be from an infamous

incident that happened in the 2001-2012 time period. Hatfill had been a bio-defense researcher at the U.S. Army Medical Research

Institute of Infectious Diseases at 4th Dietrich, Maryland, and he'd also work for

National Institutes of Health.

He was a bio-defense expert.

And it turns out he was wrongly blamed by the FBI, implicated,

in these anthrax attacks where somebody mailed deadly anthrax spores to some

media and political figures in 2001.

The FBI was leaking his name to the press.

Somebody tipped off the news when they went to search his home and drain a pond and so on,

so that was televised on TV, cable news. His phone was tapped, he was surveilled, he was followed around. Well, he wasn't

guilty. And after a long period of harassment, the government had to acknowledge that they cleared him in essence,

they blamed somebody else down the road.

He filed a lawsuit.

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