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I’m studying J. Edgar Hoover’s early years in order to understand why it was he created the monstrosity called the Top Echelon Informant program. If you ever want to understand what made him tick just think of the number 1919. It explains much. One of my big beefs with the FBI is that it refuses…

Ralph Ranalli  takes part of the blame for luring me into this blog. It was his 2001 book “Deadly Alliance: The FBI’s Secret Partnership With The Mob.” that intrigued me. He said he was motivated in writing the book for two reasons. The first because he requested from the FBI its Manual of Investigative and Operational…

Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said: “Our democracy is a work in progress,. This decision of putting a woman in the $10 bill reflects our aspirations for the future as much as a reflection of the past.”  Can you figure out what that is supposed to mean? I can’t. If he said something like “look we…

One of Boston’s all-time favorite Irish politicians was Dapper O’Neil. With a name like that you know there had to be a lot of rakishness in the man. One thing that always struck me funny about him though was his relationship with Helen T. Skrzowski, his girlfriend of 56 years   who died at age…

Americans have bought into many big lies. Perhaps for a society to function we have to do that. One major lie is that the Supreme Court is impartially and fairly determining the laws of the land. The basic functioning of our society depends upon that even though it is a lie. It is hard for people…

This I beheld or dreamed it in a dream. I happened to be in the John Adams Courthouse the home of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC). I spent some time at the Social Law Library (there is nothing social about it) which was once aptly described by an Appeals Court Judge who said “someone could…