FBI Allowed Informants to Commit 5,600 Crimes in 2011
FBI informants were given permission to break the law at least 5,658 times in a single year, according to newly disclosed documents, USA Todayreports.
The U.S. Justice Department ordered the FBI to begin tracking crimes by its informants more than 10 years ago, after the agency admitted that its agents had allowed Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger to continue operating a crime ring in exchange for information about the Mafia. While the FBI submits this tally annually, it has never before been made public, the article says.