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CNN show re Whitey Bulger not your average mainstream media piece - Drew Phipps - 19-09-2014
I watched Whitey on CNN tonight (its airing again right now). If you have any interest in criminal justice at all you should invest an hour in watching this one. It is soundly critical of FBI / DOJ, the way they handle and protect informants, and exposes widespread corruption, wholesale manufaturing of paper "evidence", exposes the lies they tell the Judicial Branch and the victims they are supposed to be protecting. It is quite reminiscent of many of the topics we discuss here with respect to JFK and other assassinations and thier coverups, the relationship between law enforcement and organized crime from Hoover forward (which certainly played a part in Iran/Contra), and the lies about surveillance that the FBI told then (and if we believe Snowden, that practice is still continuing today under the guise of "parallel investigations")
Although the show is just about Bolger, you can see the seams and flaws in the law enforcement. Let's hope this signals a greater interest in MSM about exposing corruption and deceit. Let's give the show a big audience to give MSM a reason to take up more such stories.
CNN show re Whitey Bulger not your average mainstream media piece - David Guyatt - 19-09-2014
Drew Phipps Wrote:I watched Whitey on CNN tonight (its airing again right now). If you have any interest in criminal justice at all you should invest an hour in watching this one. It is soundly critical of FBI / DOJ, the way they handle and protect informants, and exposes widespread corruption, wholesale manufaturing of paper "evidence", exposes the lies they tell the Judicial Branch and the victims they are supposed to be protecting. It is quite reminiscent of many of the topics we discuss here with respect to JFK and other assassinations and thier coverups, the relationship between law enforcement and organized crime from Hoover forward (which certainly played a part in Iran/Contra), and the lies about surveillance that the FBI told then (and if we believe Snowden, that practice is still continuing today under the guise of "parallel investigations")
Although the show is just about Bolger, you can see the seams and flaws in the law enforcement. Let's hope this signals a greater interest in MSM about exposing corruption and deceit. Let's give the show a big audience to give MSM a reason to take up more such stories.
I guess cops have always been corrupt and dishonest, but these days it seems to be almost a requirement to get along. It's the same here in the UK too. My default setting is that I would now never trust a cop unless, or until, it was proved to me they were straight and honest and trying to do the right thing.
CNN show re Whitey Bulger not your average mainstream media piece - Drew Phipps - 19-09-2014
Might I suggest that your suspicion should be directed less at the individual civil servants, who are generally good hardworking people, and more at the institutional practices that permit the bad ones to thrive, and directly, or indirectly, reward the corruption.
CNN show re Whitey Bulger not your average mainstream media piece - Charles Keeble - 19-09-2014
David Guyatt Wrote:Drew Phipps Wrote:I watched Whitey on CNN tonight (its airing again right now). If you have any interest in criminal justice at all you should invest an hour in watching this one. It is soundly critical of FBI / DOJ, the way they handle and protect informants, and exposes widespread corruption, wholesale manufaturing of paper "evidence", exposes the lies they tell the Judicial Branch and the victims they are supposed to be protecting. It is quite reminiscent of many of the topics we discuss here with respect to JFK and other assassinations and thier coverups, the relationship between law enforcement and organized crime from Hoover forward (which certainly played a part in Iran/Contra), and the lies about surveillance that the FBI told then (and if we believe Snowden, that practice is still continuing today under the guise of "parallel investigations")
Although the show is just about Bolger, you can see the seams and flaws in the law enforcement. Let's hope this signals a greater interest in MSM about exposing corruption and deceit. Let's give the show a big audience to give MSM a reason to take up more such stories.
I guess cops have always been corrupt and dishonest, but these days it seems to be almost a requirement to get along. It's the same here in the UK too. My default setting is that I would now never trust a cop unless, or until, it was proved to me they were straight and honest and trying to do the right thing.
You would think that people like this would eventually realise that what they do is cumulative, and in the long run, it supports treason.
The road to hell is paved with useful idiots.
CNN show re Whitey Bulger not your average mainstream media piece - David Guyatt - 19-09-2014
Drew Phipps Wrote:Might I suggest that your suspicion should be directed less at the individual civil servants, who are generally good hardworking people, and more at the institutional practices that permit the bad ones to thrive, and directly, or indirectly, reward the corruption.
I tend to agree Drew, although there are plenty of individual cops who aren't trustworthy and many who are a lot worse that that. And I speak as someone who has cop friends, so I do understand the pressures put on them. Hence my point about being cynical of them unless or until they prove themselves to have integrity and honesty...
CNN show re Whitey Bulger not your average mainstream media piece - Michael Barwell - 19-09-2014
Judith Exner said in the Thames TV series 'Crime Inc.' (on the mafia in the US) that there was no difference between the 'good' guys, meaning law and apparently legitimate politicians, and the 'bad' guys, the mafia; paraphrasing, "an unbroken line between the two", Ep4 I think.
CNN show re Whitey Bulger not your average mainstream media piece - Albert Doyle - 19-09-2014
Peter Lance's book Cover Up shows a good example of a similar lapsing of FBI interests with those of the mafia in the case of Ramsey Yusef and the information behind the shoot down of TWA Flight 800. The New York FBI office's attempt to cover up its tolerance of mafia murder caused them to bury information that could have prevented 9-11.