Word: labs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...complaint that the FBI can be politically manipulated is as old as the agency itself, of course. What is new and alarming, however, is the accumulation of problems that reflect a combination of arrogance and negligence. Besides the crime lab's problems, the most damaging...
...Justice Department report on the FBI lab delves deeply into fewer than two dozen cases and examines just three of the FBI's 35 specialized units, but its repercussions are enormous. By questioning the lab's credibility, the 500-page study has undermined thousands of cases that have coursed through the agency--the lab does as many as 600,000 examinations a year--especially those handled by the 10 lab workers faulted in the study. "We're going to get hundreds, if not thousands, of motions that are going to encompass every part of the lab, from latent-fingerprint comparisons...
...Green Beret doctor now serving a life term in prison for killing his pregnant wife and two daughters in the infamous Fatal Vision murders in 1970. MacDonald's lawyer, Harvey Silvergate, says the motion will be based in part on affidavits of FBI agent Michael Malone, formerly a lab examiner, submitted during the lawyer's attempt to reopen the MacDonald case. According to last week's report, Malone exhibited "inexcusable" behavior in the corruption hearing filed against former judge Alcee Hastings when Malone testified to having performed a tensile-strength test that was not only beyond his expertise...
...Neighborhood Project, a combination library, clubhouse, nature-study lab and community center, has had no small part in the transformation. Operating with a paid staff of just five and an annual budget of $400,000, only 20% of it from government sources, Sister Carol's troops have herded dealers off corners, used amateur detectives to rat out nuisance bars, covered graffiti with murals and planted gardens in vacant lots. Hundreds of volunteers have made that possible...
...intriguing to imagine what would happen if more sprang up: instead of saddening her parents by arriving at Seder with a nice Catholic boy (like her older sister's husband), a Reform Jewish girl could thrill them with the fine Conservative lad she met in, say, biology lab. Three guesses as to the faith of their kids...