In letters released Monday, FBI Director Louis Freeh conceded that he had been in error when he told a House subcommittee that the FBI was "solely and directly" following the recommendations of the Justice Department's inspector general when it disciplined a bureau chemist for making allegations of sloppy procedures and deliberate deception at the FBI's crime lab, reported today.
March 18, 1997
THE DAILY FED
Freeh Admits Fib
The Los Angeles TimesInstead, Freeh said in letters to the inspector general and the chairman of a House subcommittee, the truth was that whistle-blower Frederic Whitehurst was disciplined for refusing to cooperate with an internal FBI investigation into leaks about the inspector general's long-anticipated upcoming report on the lab.
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