Chuck Grassley: “Higher ups in the FBI never did a thing about this problem. Yet, it speaks to exactly the charge made by Dr. Whitehurst…”

“Higher ups in the FBI never did a thing about this problem. Yet, it speaks to exactly the charge made by Dr. Whitehurst; namely, that the culture within the FBI is to overstate lab results to get a conviction. They do this by withholding any data that might show the opposite. That makes me think of an analogy, Mr. President. Imagine me standing by a dog. You ask me if my dog bites. I say ``no.'' You reach down to pet the dog, and he bites you. You say, ``I thought you said your dog doesn't bite.'' And I say, ``That's not my dog.'' The point is, I withheld valuable information to keep you from having an informed judgment. That is what the FBI does, according to Dr. Whitehurst, and in this specific case according to Dr. Tobin. And when the IG's investigative report comes out next month, we'll see if there are other examples that need following up. In an interview with Federal investigators, Dr. Tobin called this ``forensic prostitution.'' Those were his words, Mr. President. Forensic prostitution. It must be really bad when a senior, supervisory agent in the FBI's own lab calls that practice ``forensic prostitution.'' What does that say about the standards in the lab? And does not that back up what was charged by Dr. Whitehurst? Of course it does.”