Senator labels FBI suspension `a reprisal'

From: The Boston Globe | Date: January 28, 1997| Author: Associated Press | Copyright information

WASHINGTON -- The FBI has suspended a scientist-agent whose charges led to a Justice Department report critical of some FBI crime lab workers. A Republican senator said yesterday that the suspension "appears to be a reprisal."

The FBI also took action regarding other employees criticized in the report, officials said on condition of anonymity. The identities of those employees and their actions could not be learned immediately.

The agent, Frederic Whitehurst, once a crime lab s...

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