special case. there was abuse, stole their money. have you heard about people being auctioned off, about my glan migrants being sold? there is nothing that is obvious. we don t have evidence. but we now do. the libyan authorities have promised to launch an investigation so that scenes like there are returned to the past. cnn, libya. as a result of that report, libyan authorities tell cnn they have opened a formal investigation into this issue. and in addition to alerting libyan authorities about what cnn uncovered, we also passed our evidence on to the office of the prosecutor at the international criminal court. thousands of zim bob wrbabwe
up by the same corrupt cop and their releases may be just the beginning as investigators comb through all of the cases brought by the former officer and hesz co his colleagues. ryan young talked with three of the newly freed men. reporter: 15 men exonerated of their crimes on the first day. their felony drug convictions tossed four years after a corrupt officer s investigations with are fircalled in to questi. we concluded unfortunately the police were not being truthful and we couldn t have confidence in the integrity of their reports and their testimony. and so in good conscious, we could not see these convictions stand. reporter: leonard gibson says officer ronald watts framed him and took years away from his life. i did two years, 24 months for watts. came back home, he put another case on me. reporter: in 013, watts then
people want to set these things up so that they can go back and indicate how important they are back at home. well, that is exactly right. so it baffles me a little bit why the white house i can understand why having said there were no contacts they would not want to reveal much going on here. but if they have e-mails that indicate that they actually deflected russian contacts, you d think that would be the first things that they would push out to the committees and maybe send sarah sanders to the podium to say here is this e-mail in which a member of our cam pachb, in this case theth president s son-in-law, is actually turning down a dinner. so richard, i guess that is a good question. because the fact that perhaps some of these documents that the senate judiciary committee is saying are missing might actually look good on rusher in, how do you explain them not providing them and could it be that they just sliched through
a chicago police sergeant was sentenced to 22 months after pleading guilty to theft of government funds. an fbi led investigation showed watts and another officer stole money from a federal drug informant. the conviction has led to review of hundreds of cases. begin be son like many other men whose cases were exonerated says watts planted evidence on him. if you re not paying watts, you re going to jail. reporter: cnn was unable to reach wats for comment. this is the prime example of the thin blue line, the code of silence, never i ve been doing this work for close he to 15 years. there is no case, no situation that i have ever seento 15 years. there is no case, no situation that i have ever seen that comes close to the code of silence than this one. it s torture. because you think in your head every day like how did this happen? reporter: both faced drug
hillary. so that is just one instance of collusion. and others have been disclosed since then. whether it was illegal or not is what bob mueller needs to determine. so the legal element there is obviously the key in terms of the investigation. julian, the other piece of this, each time investigators are forced to go back to kushner, again this is a person who is inside the white house. yes, this is a case where you can call it am measles i can t, y amnesia, for getting, the to sit of transparent. each time we don t get all the informationmeasles i can t, amnesia, for getting, the to sit of transparent. each time we don t get all the information and mueller has too keep going back to this top official, a family member, and we have these surprises. so credibility is everything when it comes to an investigation like this and gradually that has eroded. and so both the congress allege committees as well as mueller just don t have a lot of confidence that the information before them is a