DOJ watchdog: FBI violates rules for confidential informants

[jojog]

http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2005/09/doj-watchdog-fbi-violates-rules-for.php

The Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Justice released a report Monday revealing that federal agents frequently violate the FBI's guidelines for dealing with confidential informants. After assessing 120 confidential informant files from FBI offices around the country, Inspector General Glenn A. Fine said the investigation revealed that 87 percent of cases involved one or more violations. Failures included poor assessment of informants' suitability, lack of authorization for informant activity that otherwise would be deemed illegal, and not telling prosecutors when informants had committed serious crimes. The Attorney General's Investigative Guidelines section on informants was rewritten in 2001, after incidents in the 1990s in which FBI agents aided members of the mafia in avoiding prosecution.

[Carolab]

1. And Dorgan was "shocked" that the whistleblowers had not talked to the IG.

Bunnatine Greenhouse and Ms. Watts in their Army Corps of Engineers Halliburton whistleblowing. Oh, really-that shocks you, Byron?