9-15-95. NYPaper: "Company Says Electronic Mail Was Opened to Find Pornography." America Online gave the FBI access to the mailboxes of its subscribers to identify several thousand users who viewed images of children in sexual poses and to trace messages beyond AOL to many more computer users nationwide. Because electronic mail has a life of days or weeks, can be traced and can be easily copied without alerting the owner, reading the mailboxes was particularly effective. It was unclear how much information about subscribers is routinely kept and how much private information was provided to the FBI. Actions of users can be recorded and can reveal much more personal information than the records a telephone company. "F.B.I. Chemist Says Experts Are Pressured To Skew Tests." Officials at the F.B.I. crime laboratory have been accused by one of its chemists, Frederic Whitehurst, of pressuring forensic experts to commit perjury to help secure criminal convictions. With opinion polls showing public support for the F.B.I. eroding after Congressional hearings into the Branch Davidian siege, the accusations regarding the laboratory are in some ways the worst blow yet. Two: VIO_lat (11 kb)