subgenius
1st March 2003, 08:28 PM
March 1, 2003 04:36 PM EST
For decades, in cities from coast to coast, FBI agents recruited killers and crime bosses as informants and then looked the other way as they continued to commit violent crimes.
When the practice first came to light in Boston - unleashing an ongoing investigation that has already sent one agent to prison for obstruction of justice - FBI officials in Washington portrayed it as an aberration.
But Associated Press interviews with nine former FBI agents - men with a combined 190 years of experience in more than 25 bureau offices from Texas to Chicago and from Los Angeles to Washington - indicate the practice was widespread during their years of service between the late 1950s and the 1990s.
http://start.earthlink.net/newsarticle?cat=6&aid=D7PGIFR80_story
Not gonna change as long as they have a criminal's name on their headquarters.
For decades, in cities from coast to coast, FBI agents recruited killers and crime bosses as informants and then looked the other way as they continued to commit violent crimes.
When the practice first came to light in Boston - unleashing an ongoing investigation that has already sent one agent to prison for obstruction of justice - FBI officials in Washington portrayed it as an aberration.
But Associated Press interviews with nine former FBI agents - men with a combined 190 years of experience in more than 25 bureau offices from Texas to Chicago and from Los Angeles to Washington - indicate the practice was widespread during their years of service between the late 1950s and the 1990s.
http://start.earthlink.net/newsarticle?cat=6&aid=D7PGIFR80_story
Not gonna change as long as they have a criminal's name on their headquarters.