{"article":{"id":95191,"heading":"FBI baad...no FBI good...what the hell?","author":"OzzyTeppics","created":"2003-11-22 03:31:58","modified":"2013-11-11 00:27:43","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 07:27:43","article":"

FBI handling of informants condemned

http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/national\/apwashington_story.asp?category=1153&slug=New%20England%20Mob%20Congress<\/a>

By LOLITA C. BALDOR

ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

WASHINGTON -- While probing organized crime in New England since the 1960s, the FBI used killers as informants, shielded them from prosecution and knowingly sent innocent people to jail, House investigators said Thursday in concluding a two-year inquiry.

The bureau's conduct \"must be considered one of the greatest failures in the history of federal law enforcement,\" according to the final report from the House Government Reform Committee.

No biggy to these guys:



Lawmakers Approve Expansion of F.B.I.'s Antiterrorism

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By ERIC LICHTBLAU

http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/11\/20\/national\/20TERR.html<\/a>

Published: November 20, 2003

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 — Congressional negotiators

approved a measure on Wednesday to expand the F.B.I.'s counterterrorism powers, despite concerns from some lawmakers who said that the measure gave the government too much authority and that the public had been shut out of the debate.<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"While probing organized crime in New England since the 1960s, the FBI used killers as informants, shielded them from prosecution and knowingly sent innocent people to jail...Congressional negotiators approved a measure on Wednesday to expand the F.B.I.'s counterterrorism powers...huh? ","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2003\/11\/95191.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}