Friday, August 17, 2007
'Not much has changed'
The FBI is still at it. Radley Balko writes about abuses surrounding narcotics police and government drug informants. In particular, he notes Bill Delahunt's recent grilling of the FBI's Directorate of Intelligence about the way the FBI uses drug informants. Forgive Balko for not knowing, but Delahunt's attempt to pin the FBI down occurred at roughly the same time a federal judge was throwing the book at the FBI for its past gross use of informants in Boston (here and here). There's a good reason for Delahunt being on the warpath. ... Radley via Andrew.
The FBI is still at it. Radley Balko writes about abuses surrounding narcotics police and government drug informants. In particular, he notes Bill Delahunt's recent grilling of the FBI's Directorate of Intelligence about the way the FBI uses drug informants. Forgive Balko for not knowing, but Delahunt's attempt to pin the FBI down occurred at roughly the same time a federal judge was throwing the book at the FBI for its past gross use of informants in Boston (here and here). There's a good reason for Delahunt being on the warpath. ... Radley via Andrew.
