we're on our way to meet him now. >> frederic whitehurst is a forensic scientist who joined the fbi lab in 1986. >> we're putting human beings in cages and death chambers. fellow citizens based on garbage. >> in the mid 1990s, whitehurst alleged that over a dozen fbi agents had performed false or sloppy forensic work. >> whitehurst, you may remember, was the fbi chemist who blew the whistle on shoddy work at the bureau's famed crime lab. >> i'm a law enforcement officer. if i see violations of the law, abuses of authority, corruption or whatever, i am required to report those. >> in response to whitehurst's claims, in 1997, the inspector general of the justice department released a bombshell report. >> the justice department's final report documented example after example of what it called scientifically flawed and inaccurate testimony. >> i think it is highly inappropriate for the fbi to manipulate scientific data in order to obtain a conviction. >> the justice department realized there were broader implications. >> david colapinto is fred whitehurst's lawyer, who closely monitored the