There are no defined lines as to who's side who is on - When Government Meets Organized Crime

When Government IS Organized Crime! More of our government that is now our enemy. It makes me mournful, it is like the death of a trusted loved one, the Departed. m/r

When Government Meets Organized Crime - Reason.com

Corrupt FBI let mobster Whitey Bulger keep killing—and it cost innocent lives.

Gene Healy | July 16, 2013

You'd hardly know it from the wall-to-wall coverage of the George Zimmerman case, but there's another trial going on that's at least as worthy of national attention. That's the 32-count federal racketeering indictment against James "Whitey" Bulger, a Boston mob kingpin linked to at least 19 murders, captured in 2011 after 16 years on the lam.

Bulger, a former "Top Echelon Informant" for the FBI, is a monster, but he's hardly the only villain in a story where "gangster government" leaves the realm of metaphor. As Boston Globe reporters Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy explain in their riveting new biography of Bulger, the Irish mobster ruled South Boston for nearly two decades, "protected by the arrogance and corruption of an FBI and a Justice Department that tolerated murder as an acceptable price of doing effective law enforcement."

Federal rules ban cameras in most criminal trials, which is one reason the Bulger case hasn't gotten the national attention it deserves. So Court TV junkies missed last Wednesday's explosive exchange between the Bulger and his former henchman-turned-federal-witness, Kevin Weeks, when Weeks called Bulger a "rat:"

Whitey: "You suck!"; ... -go to link-