Time: Wed Mar 19 08:36:26 1997 by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA02596; Wed, 19 Mar 1997 07:13:37 -0700 (MST) id JAA17389; Wed, 19 Mar 1997 09:09:36 -0500 (EST) id JAA17385; Wed, 19 Mar 1997 09:09:35 -0500 (EST) id AA12769; Wed, 19 Mar 1997 09:09:34 -0500 by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id HAA05318 for <snetnews@world.std.com>; Wed, 19 Mar 1997 07:09:32 -0700 (MST) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 08:20:28 -0800 To: snetnews@world.std.com From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SNET: FBI Director Lies to Congress -> SearchNet's SNETNEWS Mailing List FIB ALERT! FIB ALERT! FIB ALERT! HONK! HONK! HONK! [Those are not geese I hear honking, are they?] /s/ Paul Mitchell, FIB Agent Provocateur At 10:16 PM 3/18/97 -0800, you wrote: > >-> SearchNet's SNETNEWS Mailing List > > 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. > (327K/30 sec. AIFF or WAV sound) > > 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. > >Anomalous Images and UFO Files: > >http://www.anomalous-images.com >http://www.anomalous-images.com/incoming.html (Uploads) >ftp://ftp.anomalous-images.com/pub/anomalou/ (Anonymous FTP Site) > >-> Send "subscribe snetnews " to majordomo@world.std.com >-> Posted by: "Steve Wingate" <steve@anomalous-images.com> > > ======================================================================== Paul Andrew, Mitchell, B.A., M.S. : Counselor at Law, federal witness email: [address in tool bar] : Eudora Pro 3.0.1 on Intel 586 CPU web site: http://www.supremelaw.com : library & law school registration ship to: c/o 2509 N. Campbell, #1776 : this is free speech, at its best Tucson, Arizona state : state zone, not the federal zone Postal Zone 85719/tdc : USPS delays first class w/o this ======================================================================== -> Send "subscribe snetnews " to majordomo@world.std.com -> Posted by: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
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