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Article: Justice Department broadens investigation of FBI's DNA lab practices
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- AP Worldstream
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- April 27, 2003
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Dateline: WASHINGTON
The Justice Department's inspector general has broadened an investigation,
originally limited to alleged wrongdoing by a forensic technician,
to look at the practices of the FBI lab unit that analyzes DNA in
hundreds of crime cases a year, government officials say.
The inquiry, expected to last several more months, already has led
to changes inside the lab's DNA unit in response to advice from outside
scientists brought in by Justice investigators, the officials told
The Associated Press.
The inspector general, an independent watchdog within the Justice
Department, is trying to identify shortcomings in the lab after an
FBI technician went ...