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Article: Lawmaker blasts leadership in FBI: Chabot cites Waco, Ruby Ridge, lab.(Nation)

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FBI Director Louis J. Freeh heard a new round of criticism yesterday from lawmakers, this time members of a House subcommittee who questioned several "serious scandals" they said had tainted the country's pre-eminent law enforcement agency over the past few years.

"I'm deeply concerned about the serious scandals that have rocked the FBI in recent years," said Rep. Steve Chabot, Ohio Republican and a member of the House Judiciary subcommittee on crime. "Waco, Ruby Ridge, Filegate, the handling of the Richard Jewell case, the Billy Dale case, problems in the FBI crime lab - the list goes on and on - have done, I believe, irreparable harm to the American ...

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