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Via WAPO
The Justice Department’s inspector general has concluded that a senior FBI official created the impression of witness-tampering during a discrimination lawsuit brought against the bureau by a disabled Army veteran.
Teresa Carlson, who is currently an FBI acting deputy assistant director, showed “extremely poor judgment” in her statements to Special Agent Mark Crider, a subordinate who was being deposed in the case, the inspector general found.
Crider was called to testify last year in a lawsuit brought by the veteran who had been disqualified from agent training in 2011 because of concerns about his prosthetic left hand.
The veteran, Justin Slaby of Stafford County, Va., won the case last August and resumed training at Quantico in June. When he graduates in October, he will be the first FBI agent with a prosthetic hand.
According to a redacted report by the office of the inspector general, Crider said Carlson told him in April 2013 that “it would be in my best interest to come down on the side of the FBI.” […]
Slaby’s left hand was blown off by a defective “flash-bang” grenade in a training accident in Georgia in 2004 between overseas deployments. He served two tours in Iraq and one in Afghanistan. He left the Army in 2005, earned a college degree and in 2009 applied to the FBI and was offered a job.