January 6, 2007
Editor’s E-Mail May Be Used in Suit Against The Times
By NEIL A. LEWIS
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 — A lawyer for a former government scientist who is suing The New York Times for defamation over a series of columns about the deadly anthrax mailings of 2001 said Friday in court that he was prepared to introduce an internal e-mail message from a senior Times editor that raised questions about one of the columns.
The lawyer, Mark A. Grannis, said the columns written by Nicholas D. Kristof about the federal investigation of the mailings unfairly damaged the reputation of his client, Dr. Stephen A. Hatfill, a former germ warfare scientist.
Dr. Hatfill’s lawyers have said the columns wrongfully suggested that he was responsible for the attacks.
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