Posted on 07/18/2013 11:16:37 PM PDT by george76
Corrupt FBI let mobster Whitey Bulger keep killing—and it cost innocent lives.
You'd hardly know it from the wall-to-wall coverage of the George Zimmerman case, but there's another trial going on that's at least as worthy of national attention. That's the 32-count federal racketeering indictment against James "Whitey" Bulger, a Boston mob kingpin linked to at least 19 murders, captured in 2011 after 16 years on the lam.
Bulger, a former "Top Echelon Informant" for the FBI, is a monster, but he's hardly the only villain in a story where "gangster government" leaves the realm of metaphor. As Boston Globe reporters Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy explain in their riveting new biography of Bulger, the Irish mobster ruled South Boston for nearly two decades, "protected by the arrogance and corruption of an FBI and a Justice Department that tolerated murder as an acceptable price of doing effective law enforcement."
Federal rules ban cameras in most criminal trials, which is one reason the Bulger case hasn't gotten the national attention it deserves. So Court TV junkies missed last Wednesday's explosive exchange between the Bulger and his former henchman-turned-federal-witness, Kevin Weeks
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Organized crime.... now theres a unique term..
The Federal Givernment is indeed Mob Rule by mobsters.
Bulgar is small change..
The FBI, CIA, NSA, IRS.. and many more Mobs.. are WORSE..
And Don Obama is the figurehead..
The GIVERNMENT IS THE MOB.. federal employees are MADE PEOPLE...
America has become A CARTOON!!!!!.
LMBO!!
Government IS organized crime. And they hate competition.
Government IS organized crime. And they hate competition.
The feral government has a monopoly on organized crime, but it lets selected states, cities, unions, gangs, and mafia-style organizations operate franchises.
The difference between the feral government and most organized crime extortion rackets is the latter understand it's stupid to steal everything.
It's a family reunion.............
it doesnt make sense for whitey to go after this guy. hes going to get convincted anyway. whats the point of going thru allt he trouble of killing this guy.. he probebly had a heart attack.
crap i should note iv always found mafias fascinating my fav movie is godfather.. but for this guy to have this much power at his age.. i call bs
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