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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 08:20:28 -0800
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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: SNET: FBI Director Lies to Congress
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/s/ Paul Mitchell, FIB Agent Provocateur
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> Freeh admits to errors in testimony about whistle-blower
> March 18, 1997
> Web posted at: 1:08 p.m. EST (1808 GMT)
>
> WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The FBI denied late Monday that director Louis Freeh
had
>deliberately misled Congress in testimony he gave March 5 before a House
>subcommittee investigating problems at the FBI
>rime lab.
>
> The statement was prompted early Monday when outspoken FBI critic Sen.
>Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, released a Justice Department letter correcting
the
>director's testimony about the bureau's discipl
>ary action against FBI crime lab whistle-blower Frederick Whitehurst.
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>
> Whitehurst was suspended with pay in January after he made allegations of
>mismanagement, sloppy work and bias in the crime lab where he worked.
>
> In his March 5 testimony before the House panel, Freeh told Chairman Harold
>Rogers that Whitehurst's suspension "was taken solely and directly on the
>basis of the recommendation of the inspector g
>eral."
>
> "We notified the inspector general," Freeh testified. "They did not object
>to it."
>
> But Inspector General Michael Bromwich sent a letter to Freeh a day later,
>urging him to correct inaccuracies in his testimony "as promptly as
>possible."
>
> In his letter, Bromwich said his office made "no such recommendation" to
>suspend Whitehurst, and that the inspector general had expressed his
>opposition verbally to FBI officials before the suspen
>on took place.
>
> "This was consistent with the opposition that I had taken over the course
of
>more than a year when FBI representatives had repeatedly proposed firing
>Whitehurst or placing him on some sort of admi
>strative leave," Bromwich wrote.
>
> Bromwich said the FBI had, in fact, always maintained that Whitehurst was
>suspended in part because he refused to testify as required in an internal
>FBI inquiry.
>
> In his response to Bromwich, a March 11 letter also released by Grassley on
>Monday afternoon, Freeh acknowledged that his testimony "was incomplete" and
>provided corrections as requested by Bromwi
>.
>
> But he said Bromwich's report did recommend that the bureau consider
>Whitehurst's suitability for service in the FBI.
>
> "Your findings also make clear that the majority of Mr. Whitehurst's
>allegations are unfounded and that he is often unable to distinguish fact
>from conjecture," Freeh wrote.
>
> The bureau acknowledged Freeh's inaccurate testimony in a statement
released
>Monday evening.
>
> "He failed to mention an important point in the testimony," the statement
>said. "When this was pointed out to him, he promptly corrected the record
>(and) ... regrets his inadvertent omission."
>
> Also Monday, an effort to force the release of the preliminary report on
the
>crime lab was rejected by a federal judge. The Justice Department says
>Bromwich's final report on the lab will be made no later than April 15.
>
> The document reportedly confirms some of Whitehurst's allegations.
>
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