Word: fbi
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...request of then-Attorney General Reno, investigated whether notorious Boston mobsters James "Whitey" Bulger and Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi had corrupted the FBI agents whom they served as informants. That probe led to the conviction of retired FBI agent John Connolly Jr., sentenced to 10 years in prison for helping the two avoid prosecution. The investigation helped inspire the Martin Scorsese film The Departed...
...uncovered FBI documents showing four convicted murderers had been framed by agents in the 1960s. Two of the men were released, and later won a $100 million civil judgment against the government. The other two had died in prison...
...Nobody in this country is above the law, an FBI agent or otherwise, and ultimately the ends do not justify the means." - Unusual public remarks at press conference the day former FBI agent John Connolly was convicted in 2002. (Boston Globe, January...
...kind of has blinders on in the sense that he doesn't worry about the politics and all the other stuff that might be swirling around, and I think that's really what makes him so successful." -Warren T. Bamford, special agent in charge of the FBI's Boston office. (Boston Globe, January...
...first OLC memo to authorize the use of harsh methods was dated Aug. 1, 2002, but there have been some suggestions that interrogators were employing coercive techniques well before then. An FBI interrogator who was involved in interrogations until May that year has testified to Congress that some methods being used then were "borderline torture." (In protest, the FBI withdrew from participating in the interrogations before the first memo was written.) If the IG report confirms that, it may be impossible for Obama to hold off Holder's planned investigation...