FBI Opposes Testing DNA Database - and Their Pet Assumptions About Its Reliability

Is there any other way to put it?

According to the Los Angeles Times' top story for July 20 ('How reliable is DNA in identifying suspects?'), "A discovery [by Arizona lab technician Kathryn Troyer] leads to questions about whether the odds of people sharing genetic profiles are sometimes higher than portrayed. Calling the finding meaningless, the FBI has sought to block such inquiry."

"Block such inquiry."

Isn't it obvious that an inquiry would establish exactly whether the findings are meaningless or not? And isn't it obvious that is exactly what the FBI fears?

After all, not only did Troyer go on to find dozens of supposedly impossible matches (matches that make indentification of suspects pretty much impossible), but similar matches were made by technicians across the country.

If the FBI opposes testing the national database for matches of unrelated individuals can they still be trusted to be acting in the interests of law and justice?

And if they cannot be trusted in that regard, what exactly is the purpose of the FBI?