Shocking FBI Malpractice Uncovered
The Young Turks * Published on Aug 3, 2014
"Nearly every criminal case reviewed by the FBI and the Justice Department as part of a massive investigation started in 2012 of problems at the FBI lab has included flawed forensic testimony from the agency, government officials said.
The findings troubled the bureau, and it stopped the review of convictions last August. Case reviews resumed this month at the order of the Justice Department, the officials said.
U.S. officials began the inquiry after The Washington Post reported two years ago that flawed forensic evidence involving microscopic hair matches might have led to the convictions of hundreds of potentially innocent people. Most of those defendants never were told of the problems in their cases."
Read more from Spencer S. Hsu at Washington Post here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/federal-review-stalled-after-finding-forensic-errors-by-fbi-lab-unit-spanned-two-decades/2014/07/29/04ede880-11ee-11e4-9285-4243a40ddc97_story.html
- From the article:
U.S. officials began the inquiry after The Washington Post reported two years ago that flawed forensic evidence involving microscopic hair matches might have led to the convictions of hundreds of potentially innocent people. Most of those defendants never were told of the problems in their cases.
The inquiry includes 2,600 convictions and 45 death-row cases from the 1980s and 1990s in which the FBI’s hair and fiber unit reported a match to a crime-scene sample before DNA testing of hair became common. The FBI had reviewed about 160 cases before it stopped, officials said.
(Related: ‘Irreversible harm’ when FBI didn’t reveal flawed lab work in death-row cases)
The investigation resumed after the Justice Department’s inspector general excoriated the department and the FBI for unacceptable delays and inadequate investigation in a separate inquiry from the mid-1990s. The inspector general found in that probe that three defendants were executed and a fourth died on death row in the five years it took officials to reexamine 60 death-row convictions that were potentially tainted by agent misconduct, mostly involving the same FBI hair and fiber analysis unit now under scrutiny. link
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Abuses by the FBI has nothing to do with the size of government or the number of laws. This isn't Libertarian Underground.
- Not at all.
... that we need to discontinue the death penalty. We don't have a judicial system in this country anymore. We're killing too many wrongly convicted/innocent people.
I keep wanting to say "God help us." But I think God's out of town. 
Conflict is what gives government their Raison d'être. Without it we don't need them and they know this. So ''almost fixing problems'' has become an art form that they're good at. And now, since the Bushes, they don't even try to fake it anymore. They're neutered and everyone knows it.
- As General Smedley Butler so eloquently put it: ''War is a racket!''
I've got news for you General, ''Government is the racket!''
- Even as a child of 13 or 14 I thought it strange that the FBI should be vetting and endorsing a teevee program.
...but if you are into the Twitters, then you can send her a Twit (as I understand it) and they have these Bluebirds that take messages or something.
Anyway, you can keep up with 'em here:
[center]Cenk Uygur http://www.twitter.com/cenkuygur
Ana Kasparian http://www.twitter.com/anakasparian[/center]
And all Ana needs is a bowl of Momma's soup like this:
She'll be good as new in no time........
...because when the system itself is corrupted, the police have to be too.
