FBI Admits to Murder, Wrongful Imprisonment to Preserve Drug Investigations

Radley Balko at The Agitator has a fascinating story up this morning about testimony of the FBI before the House Judiciary CMTE on the use of confidential informants. The testimony shows that the FBI often let's murderer's roam free without alerting local law enforcement to their presence or their history as well as imprisoning innocent people all for the sake of preserving a drug investigation. They say these things are 'necessary evils'.

Boy howdy that makes me proud to be an American!

Go read it for yourself...if you can stomach it