quite insane and hilarious and distressing all at once:

ashcroft and the bush administration are actually saying that they were HELPING someone they called a 'person of interest', which ruined his reputation and career, in the anthrax investigation of 2001 because, as they motion here, "Ashcroft's identification of Hatfill actually was an effort to "downplay" his status by making it clear he was not considered a suspect."
so calling him a 'person of interest' thereby downplays his possible role in the activity by saying he's not a suspect?!? what?!? givemeabreak! this is just ludicrous. how do they swallow this stuff?