. >> she said, 'do you have any information on a man named michael malone?' i said, 'i've got 7gb, i'll send it to you on a flashdrive.' >> michael malone was the fbi hair examiner who had testified against donald gates. whitehurst had named him in 1997. just three years later, the justice department had identified donald gates' conviction as potentially a mistake. but no one notified gates, or his original lawyer. >> you had the complete picture of the identification of mr. gates, the correspondence between the fbi or the doj and the us attorney's office, and then we knew of the failure to inform anybody. >> in 2009, dna testing exonerated donald gates. he had served 27 years in prison, at least nine of them since the doj first flagged his case. >> none of these individuals was contacted. none of the defense lawyers was contacted. again, they were sweeping it under the carpet. knowing that they had people that had been locked up for 10, 15, 20, 25 years. it seemed like they should have been rushing to the defense attorneys saying, you know, we might have a p