The FBI and DOJ had previously formed another task force in the '90s to investigate flawed evidence, the Washington Post reported in April.
The FBI director from 1993 to 2001, Louis Freeh, launched that task force with then-Attorney General Janet Reno.
After nine years of working in secret, the unit neither published its reviews of specific cases nor informed potentially innocent defendants or their attorneys, according to the Post.
Freeh has been praised lately for his independent investigation of the Penn State sexual abuse scandal and the alleged cover-up by top officials.
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Wow. 10,000 cases. And after the SECRET investigation to determine if ANY of those 10,000 people were INNOCENT (!), they not only didn't publish their results, they didn't even try to get any INNOCENT people out of jail?! Maybe they found that hundreds, if not thousands, of people were wrongly convicted by zealous States Attorneys looking to boost their conviction rate, cops looking to close cases, and witnesses who testified for the prosecution in order to reap some benefit. It should OUTRAGE Americans that our government would cover up or ignore evidence of innocence. A Supreme Court justice once said that he would prefer "a hundred guilty men go free than have one innocent man jailed in error". Times have changed, I guess.
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