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The DNA Security File

By K.C. Johnson

Brian Meehan, the former lab director of DNA Security (DSI) who was fired after the nature of his . . . incomplete . . . report in the lacrosse case came to light, has filed a quixotic appeal to his quixotic wrongful termination suit. (His suit failed to survive summary judgment.) Meehan?s chances of appeal aren?t exactly high, but his appeal has produced a document dump. (The post below contains the choicest excerpts from several hundred pages of depositions, exhibits, and internal DSI documents.) Two items spring out from the lawsuit documents: (1) the lacrosse case represented a potential windfall for DSI, which had otherwise struggled since its inception financially; and (2) DSI head Richard Clark offered self-contradictory statements regarding whether or how he pressured Meehan to discuss the lacrosse case during the ex-lab director?s infamous 60 Minutes interview...continue to full post

Full post as published by Durham-in-Wonderland on March 11, 2011 (boomark / email).