Mumia Abu-Jamal: I said in, We Want Freedom, that the FBI are political police. I’ve never felt that more than now, and there’s not a political fix if it’s political police, because that’s their function. They have a political function, right? And, you know, we’re seeing it nakedly in a way that we haven’t seen since J. Edgar was walking around, you know. And they are largely incompetent, right? Anyone-
Noelle Hanrahan: Did you remember, yeah, and do you remember the tainted evidence book? Where every different department they had about fingerprint analysis, hair analysis, you know, that it fell apart.
Mumia Abu-Jamal: Yeah, because it’s fake science. It was a FBI scientist, and I can’t remember his name, he had this long German name, I believe. And he was like an insider. And this guy, you know, he wrote reports saying, this is *** , this is ***, this is ***. And he was a scientist, and he was just saying, from the perspective of science, we cannot sustain saying this means that. Well, they, you know, fired the guy, or threatened him with being fired. And, you know, really went to war with this guy.
Noelle Hanrahan: Dr. Frederick Whitehurst.
Mumia Abu-Jamal: I think that’s it. I think that’s it. But I was thinking about another name, cuz I remember a little book that he put together, and he questioned almost everything, but it was all from the perspective of scientific certainty, right? And you know, I mean, most people who talk about science don’t really study science and don’t know anything about science, but this was a guy who was like, you know, I think he had like, three doctorates in different sciences, something like that. He was a, you know, he was a scientific superman, and he questioned everything, and they really oppressed this guy. And I think he had to sue to get them off of his back.
Noelle Hanrahan: Yeah. Dr. Frederick Whitehurst. [Reading] “An American chemist and attorney who served as a supervisory agent in the Federal Bureau of Investigation, concerned about problems he saw.” He went whistleblower for procedural errors and misconduct.
Mumia Abu-Jamal: Okay, that might be him.
Noelle Hanrahan: [Reading] “After the FBI retaliated against his claims, he began to attend law school at night and got his JD” [Laughter]. “While he was employed by the Bureau’s laboratory as the leading national, international expert in the science of explosives and explosive residue, he was concerned about a number of issues that he observed: old equipment, rusty gear, improper protocol, behavior of agents in the laboratory, he began to investigate. He eventually uncovered and reported what he thought were cases of scientific misconduct, alleging that agents were biased and towards the prosecution.”
Mumia Abu-Jamal: Yeah, duh. Political police. And think about what they are now, you know, under this guy, so, you know Babylon is falling, and, you know, the empire is in, you know, free fall. With love, not fear, this is Mumia Abu-Jamal.
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