The FBI's Coverup Of Its Incompetent Crime Lab

"The FBI Pressures Scientists To Lie"

"(Dr. Frederic Whitehurst's efforts to expose scientific fraud in the FBI laboratory was the subject of an article in The Washington Post, September 14, 1995 and continuation page.) Whitehurst was immediately transferred to another position. "

"Dr. Whitehurst concluded that there was no sound scientific basis for the government's public claim that a urea nitrate bomb had been the source of the explosion. When he refused to recant or to doctor his reports to support the urea nitrate bomb theory, the FBI used an unqualified lab technician to testify that the so-called urea nitrate found at the scene was consistent with a urea nitrate bomb."

"Dr. Whitehurst submitted two blind test samples to the lab technician. Whitehurst had prepared one sample by urinating into a laboratory flask. The other was a sample of commercial grade fertilizer prepared by FBI Agent Burmeister. The lab technician found that both samples tested positive for urea nitrate, the explosive component of the infamous fertilizer bomb. "

"In other words, Dr. Whitehurst proved that the lab technician, like the ATF, couldn't tell a bomb from sewage."

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Source: Carol A. Valentine, on loan to Public Action, Inc.