The U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory is facing the possibility of a Pentagon investigation because of a plethora of errors made by a lab employee, according to the Kansas City Star. Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley wants the Defense Department's Inspector General to examine whether mistakes made by Army analyst Phillip Mills caused innocent people to be convicted of crimes they didn't commit. (McClatchy Newspapers did an investigative series on the lab earlier this month and found Mills made errors in hundreds of cases on which he worked.) Sen. Grassley wants to know:
The U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory is located just outside of Atlanta, Georgia, at Fort Gillem.
To read McClatchy's investigative piece on the laboratory, click here.
