Full of Bulger today.
Related: FBI Frame-Ups Past and Present
Web readers got the tip first:
Whitey Bulger arrested
Fugitive gangster James "Whitey" Bulger, wanted for 19 murders, was captured last night in Southern Calif., the result of a tip from FBI television spots that began airing this week. His capture ended a 16-year manhunt that spanned the globe.
What is disappointing, and what was suspected, is the FBI knew where he was all along. This is once again another staged and scripted event passing as news. It's to make you now believe the FBI are the good guys doing a good job despite all the informant instigation and patsy plots.
"Bulger ordered home; Aged mobster faces charges in 19 deaths" by Peter Schworm and Shelley Murphy, Globe Staff / June 24, 2011
LOS ANGELES — His appearance yesterday with his longtime girlfriend, Catherine Greig, marked the end of an underground life that had become legendary as the FBI fruitlessly chased reported sightings from Thailand to New Zealand to the Canary Islands.
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All that tax money wasted.
In the end, they were found in plain sight, at a rent-controlled apartment in Santa Monica, Calif., the couple may have rented even before they disappeared, three blocks from the beach and 4 miles from a local FBI office....
So they were watching him!
Related: A pretty peaceful hideaway
An FBI informant who allegedly committed crimes while under the bureau’s protection, Bulger disappeared in late 1994 after being tipped off by a rogue FBI agent to a looming arrest. The scandal and the subsequent failure to bring Bulger to custody sullied the bureau’s reputation and was a major embarrassment.
That history had fueled doubts that the FBI was fully invested in trying to capture him, but agents said they never wavered in their focus to bring him to justice....
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And how did they get him?
"Viewers of daytime television programs may have been the key....
Too bad they are being canceled, much to the consternation of some.
I'm supposed to believe this priming pos propaganda?
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Also see:
TV ads are latest tactic in hunt for Bulger
Another tack in hunt for Bulger
FBI gets rash of calls about Bulger, Greig
Uh-huh.
"Justice, finally, for Boston" by Brian McGrory, Globe Columnist / June 24, 2011
FBI-sanctioned reign of terror....
It’s about Boston, all of Boston....
A federal indictment says that 19 people died while the FBI had this relationship with Bulger. Many were tortured. Grown men and women lived in fear. Others lived in mourning. All the while, Bulger, late at night, dined with FBI agents, slipped quietly into their houses for casual talks, bribed them, exchanged gifts with them — all of it giving him license to kill.
Bulger’s close relationship with the FBI, first revealed by the Globe in 1988, began with his ever-odious FBI handler, John J. Connolly Jr., though it didn’t end there. It splashed on all his colleagues in the FBI’s Boston office. It flowed to his bosses, each one of whom was inexplicably mesmerized by Bulger and his equally murderous cohort, Steve Flemmi. It seeped deeply into the US attorney’s office in Boston, where some high-level prosecutors looked as ridiculous as the starstruck agents on the streets. It extended to the J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington, because what happens in Boston doesn’t stay in Boston....
Bostonians by nature are not the most trusting people. Maybe it's as simple as the weather, which seldom fails to disappoint. Maybe it's the politicians, who always seemed more craven here than just about anywhere else. Maybe it's just the ingrained crustiness that comes with being a New Englander.
But when the FBI's relationship with Bulger burst into the open, a city's reflexive suspicion transformed into the hardened conviction that nothing, absolutely nothing, was ever straight. If the Federal Bureau of Investigation was contributing to murder and mayhem on Boston's streets, then what person, what institution, could this city ever trust again?
And after stepping on field office reports regarding the alleged 9/11 hijackers, too.
Related: 1993 WTC Bombing: FBI facilitated the 1993 attacks
Yeah, that's why it's the Fascist Bureau of Instigation now because of all the phony supremacists and patsy Muslim plots their "informants" encourage.
Also see: Israeli spy ring
Five Dancing Israelis
How 9/11 was done
Then they ignore the real organized crime networks?
That answer arrived late Wednesday night, and it couldn't have been any more shocking: the FBI....
This is starting to look just like what I said it is.
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"FBI needs to allow others in to restore confidence" by Kevin Cullen, Globe Columnist / June 24, 2011
For the past 23 years, Whitey Bulger was the FBI’s worst nightmare.
Not bin Laden?
Now he’s their prisoner.
It was hard to find anyone in the Boston Police Department, the State Police, or the US Drug Enforcement Administration who truly believed the FBI wanted to find Bulger. He was the FBI’s prized, if highly overrated, snitch, and he had murdered many while the FBI protected him and compromised other investigations that other law enforcement agencies mounted against Bulger.
Bulger used to have the FBI in his pocket; now all he has in that pocket is the potential for revenge, should he choose to exact it. He has told friends — indeed he has even told corrupt FBI agents — that the FBI reneged on their deal to let him run his venal little empire as long as he fed them crumbs on the competition.
The obsession with the details of Bulger’s arrest is understandable. But the bigger picture is this: there has been a carefully constructed narrative, one of damage control for the FBI and Justice Department, which is now at risk. It was a narrative that held that Whitey Bulger was protected by a rogue FBI agent, John Connolly, and a rogue FBI supervisor, John Morris, both of whom had been dealt with: Connolly was given a life sentence and sent off to prison, and Morris was given immunity and sent off to disgrace.
But there are other FBI agents and supervisors who have been accused in open court by Bulger’s cohorts, Stevie Flemmi and Kevin Weeks, of accepting cash and gifts from Bulger, or looking the other way when they had a chance to lock him up. Those allegations supposedly needed corroboration before the Justice Department was prepared to seek more charges against FBI agents. Bulger might be that corroboration.
The FBI’s reputation was always under a cloud as long as Bulger was on the lam. And so his arrest in Santa Monica — so much for all those sightings in London, Italy, and other exotic locales — was a good day for the FBI. But it remains to be seen whether this turns out to be a good year for the FBI....
Folks, I'm resting my case.
And here is something else to consider. Soon after this shocker the Globe has all these stories set to go?
It's just starting to stink like staged and scripted s***.
Bob Long, the retired State Police commander who led compromised attempts to get Bulger in the 1980s, said, “If Bulger decides to talk, whatever he has to say, the potential for additional criminal charges, will implicate the FBI,’’ said Long. “I’m not saying the FBI doesn’t have an interest in this. I’m saying they can’t control it or have exclusive access to Bulger. You have to let the guys who have proved they want to get to the bottom of this have access, too.’’
How much you wanna bet he "dies" before trial?
It was a multiagency task force led by the FBI that finally tracked down Bulger. Only a multiagency approach can credibly question and debrief him now.
Debriefing him? So he has CONTINUED to be an INFORMANT even after the "escape?"
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Sorry, but after all the investigations and cover-ups from government there is nothing that could give them credibility now. Well, maybe complete truth on 9/11. Of course, that would destroy this government in the eyes of the people. If the brain-dead American people ever realized who was really behind that horrible day and all the lies that have spewed forth since this government wouldn't last another minute.
Also see: Retired, former police reflect on efforts to get mobster
"Trial could reopen old FBI wounds; But bureau says arrest signifies dark period’s end" by Michael Levenson, Globe Staff / June 24, 2011
He was the FBI’s best informant, a mobster who provided agents with underworld secrets, helping them knock out the Boston Mafia. Then James “Whitey’’ Bulger became the bureau’s biggest embarrassment when it was revealed that agents were protecting him from prosecution, tipping off him to investigations, and taking payoffs.
Yesterday, as elated FBI agents in Boston declared that Bulger had been captured, they said the arrest should dispel any lingering notion that the bureau remained under Bulger’s thumb.
You SEE the AGENDA being PUSHED throughout the articles, right?
But others said the capture of the crime boss could dredge up more revelations of collusion between the gangster and the federal officials who were supposed to be taking down mobsters. A Bulger trial, they said, could reopen one of the most painful chapters in FBI history....
Along with COINTELPRO.
And now the FBI are the gangsters.
Corruption — and suggestion that others in the FBI may have been involved — cast a dark cloud over the bureau.
“That was a very painful period,’’ said John Gamel, who was an agent in Boston from 1979 until 2001. “To be accused of wrongdoing was demoralizing.’’
Aww, the poor FBI!
But that period is over, he said.
Oh, really?
A Bulger trial will not tarnish the bureau again.
“He may have new revelations, but the FBI is a very strong organization with a very strong culture of ethics, and to think that any presently serving agent would have a problem as a result of his capture is beyond belief,’’ Gamel said.
Yeah, they just serve national security letters on anyone they wish to investigate, etc.
Related: Say Hi to the FBI
“Everyone who is carrying that gold badge these days are the good guys and good gals,’’ he added....
What more is there to say?
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"Early prison days honed criminal skills; Flashy young gangster left more mature" by Andrew Ryan and Stephanie Ebbert, Globe Staff / June 24, 2011
Bulger's most significant coup came in the 1970s, when he began working as an FBI informant against the local mafia. FBI agents helped protect Bulger while his criminal enterprise flourished, and his alleged death toll mounted.
His principal guardian became John J. Connolly Jr., the FBI agent who tipped Bulger off that an indictment on racketeering charges was finally imminent. He fled in 1994.
Dick Lehr, coauthor of the book “Black Mass’’ and former Globe staffer, said yesterday, "He's part of the biggest informant scandal in FBI history that left many people dead and lives ruined."
Ultimately, Bulger was charged with killing 19 people, many of them whom were killed while he was working as an FBI informant....
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"Following shock, a neighborhood’s respectful reflection" by Billy Baker and Cara Bayles, Globe Staff And Globe Correspondent / June 24, 2011
Many bought into the idea of Bulger as protector of the neighborhood, and the aura has held, even after the sordid details of his alleged role in 19 slayings have come to light in his absence.
“He protected the town,’’ Jackie O’Brien, who owns one of the funeral homes in the neighborhood, said as he sat in front of the Murphy Memorial Rink along Pleasure Bay. “He kept the drugs out of the neighborhood,’’ he added, echoing a common belief about Bulger, despite evidence that he profited by shaking down drug dealers.
Newspaper really has some nerve pointing out perceptions and evidence considering their lousy track record.
In a market on Dorchester Street, one resident, who declined to give her name, said it was hard to fault a man who was willing to hustle to make a buck.
“He was a mobster, but so what?’’ she said. “Everybody’s got an occupation.’’
Not millions of Americans, but....
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I'm not alone in my suspicions:
"Victims’ kin relieved and rueful" by David Abel and Patricia Wen, Globe Staff / June 24, 2011
The truth about Bulger’s life as an organized crime boss and as an undercover FBI informant will never be fully known.
“My opinion is that they don’t want Bulger to tell what he knows about the corruption in the FBI,’’ said David Wheeler, 59, a computer programmer living in Austin, Texas, who was 29 and working for his father when he died. “There’s no crime that the FBI has not committed.’’
He worries that the truth will be concealed while this case is controlled by the federal government....
Oh, I can not IMAGINE WHY HE FEELS that way after ALL the COVER-UP COMMISSIONS appointed by GOVERNMENT!
Like other victims' relatives, Patricia Donahue, [who] was in her 30s when her husband was killed on May 11, 1982, said she wasn't so sure the FBI really wanted to catch Bulger....
Not until it was a good distraction and PR.
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Also see:
In Bulger case, a tale from the FBI’s dark side
A new chapter in the search for truth
Globe Editorial Bulger’s arrest frees Boston to get past old divisions
