WAY BACK WHEN INSTAPUNDIT WAS NEW, I had this post on crime-lab scandals. Now there’s this story:

WASHINGTON (AP) — More than six years after the FBI crime laboratory was rocked by controversy, the Justice Department has identified about 3,000 criminal cases that could have been affected by flawed science and skewed testimony.

It is letting prosecutors decide whether to tell defendants about the problems.

I’m deeply skeptical of that approach, to put it mildly. As I wrote back before September 11, the FBI had serious problems. And it still does.

UPDATE: TalkLeft has more on this.