Information Concerning Other Released Documents
Related to the OIG Investigation

The U.S. Department of Justice has released over 53,000 pages of documents relating to the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Inspector General's 1997 Report titled The FBI Laboratory: An Investigation into Laboratory Practices and Alleged Misconduct in Explosives-Related and Other Cases and other matters in response to certain requests under the Freedom of Information Act and the Privacy Act from Dr. Frederic Whitehurst and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers ("NACDL"). Information on how to obtain copies of these documents from NACDL and Dr. Whitehurst is located on the Internet homepage of www.forensicjustice.org/oigdocuments.htm.

The U.S. Department of Justice takes no responsibility for, and exercises no control over, the organizations, views, accuracy, copyright or trademark compliance or legality, of the material contained on www.forensicjustice.org/oigdocuments.htm. Any information provided by NACDL and Dr. Whitehurst is entirely NACDL's and Dr. Whitehurst's own product and does not in any way reflect the endorsement of the U.S. Department of Justice. Nor is the U.S. Department of Justice responsible for the content of any materials provided by NACDL.

This reference to NACDL's and Dr. Whitehurst's offer of documents is being provided pursuant to a settlement agreement among NACDL, Dr. Whitehurst, and the U.S. Department of Justice.