The FBI's Admission Of Its Nazi Mindset -- The Bureau Regularly Allows Innocent People To Be Imprisoned To Protect Its Own Criminal Snitches

FBI To Congress: Murder, Wrongful Imprisonment May Be Necessary to Preserve Drug Investigations

Radley Balko July 31, 2007, 5:47pm

Last week, a federal judge excoriated the FBI for not only hiding exculpatory evidence that would have exonerated four innocent men who served more than thirty years in prison, but for rewarding those who did the hiding and covering up with bonuses and promotions. For this crime against American citizens, American taxpayers will now shell out more than $100 million. Thus far, none of the government agents actually responsible for this crime have been held accountable.

Only rewarded.

Well, we're just getting started. On July 19th, the House Judiciary Committee held hearings on the use and abuse of confidential drug informants. The testimony Assistant Director of the FBI Directorate of Intelligence Wayne M. Murphy gave at that hearing is truly astonishing.

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