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Mark · Site Admin Joined: 13 Nov 2007 Posts: 1052

Legislator Aims To Regulate FBI Behavior

http://www.npr.org/templates/stor...ryId=94192965&ft=1&f=1001

Excerpt:

Delahunt says the FBI has developed into a model of arrogant uncooperativeness when it comes to helping local police fight crime. Nowhere is this problem as evident, in his view, than in the FBI's confidential informant program.

Time and again, he says, FBI agents neglect to tell local police when they know their informants have broken the law because agents arbitrarily decide that their cases are more important than local ones.

"What is totally unacceptable is having violent criminals out on the street, preying on American citizens everywhere, while there is information that isn't being disclosed to local and state law enforcement authorities that have the primary responsibility in this country to protect us from violent crime," Delahunt says.

(ROFL! As if there could be a solution through legislation. If the FBI wasn't above the law, they wouldn't be a U.S. gov't. agency. --Mark)