"The FBI’s use of Confidential Human Sources (the actual term) is tightly regulated and essential to protecting the country,”
Everything is highly regulated.
But in practice the regulations only serve to give false comfort to the populace.
The elites and power-holders do what they want without regard to regulations.
- The authority of the FBI Director and Attorney General to ignore the law for political purposes is regulated.
- The abuse of power by IRS bureaucrats against political adversaries is regulated.
- Use of a non-secure private server to conduct government business is regulated.
- Mishandling classified information and passing it to people not cleared to receive it is regulated.
- The destruction of e-Mails and other communications by public officials is regulated.
- Bypassing firearms laws as in Eric Holder's "Fast & Furious" scam is regulated.
- A president's authority to bypass congress and create his own immigration law is regulated.
- Pay-For-Play scams by public officials are regulated.