The IAAF has been accused of trying to "muddy the waters" in the ongoing investigation into doping in athletics, by an expert involved in the case.
The world governing body defended its conduct after it was implicated in the World Anti-Doping Agency's (Wada) commission into the allegations.
Michael Ashenden was one of two experts enlisted by the Sunday Times to analyse leaked data belonging to the IAAF.
He said the IAAF's 38-page statement on Friday was "deliberately bloated".
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In the statement, the federation insisted it had used "every tool available to it to catch blood dopers in athletics and with considerable success".
British marathon world record holder Paula Radcliffe, who claimed she had been implicated by a parliamentary hearing, was declared "entirely innocent" by the IAAF and the UK Anti-Doping Agency after what the IAAF called a "gross misinterpretation of raw and incomplete data".
The IAAF said documents showed that it had "consistently been a pioneer" in the war against doping and sought to demonstrate that it had been rigorous in its testing and use of the blood data it held.
But Ashenden responded: "Faced with the life-threatening blood values which they knew existed amongst their athletes, I say they should have tried to push the legal envelope.
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