Category: Whitey

Jean, a person who comments on my blog asked me if I knew the FBI definition of Top Echelon Informant (TEI). It was a good response to my post yesterday where I gave my definition of an informant as: “An informant is a person who clandestinely gives a government agency information about activities of people…

We’ve been discussing informants. We should have a definition of the word in the context of our discussion. If we went by the dictionary definition we would learn that an informant is a person who gives information. That would make us all informants. We have to narrow the definition by saying to be an informant…

Whitey wrote in a letter, and according to the media his lawyer stated, that he was never an informant. In Judge Wolf’s 661 page findings and order we read under Section II Findings of Fact section 4 is titled: “The Development of Bulger as an Informant.”  Wolf has no doubt Whitey is an informant. In making this…

If ever there was as strange case it is the case of the United States v. James “Whitey” Bulger. An example of this is what happened yesterday in court. Judge Stearns held a hearing on the prosecutors motion to keep evidence of Whitey having carte blanche authorization to murder whomever he wishes from the ears…

Before retracing my steps back to where I left off after I wandered away to discuss the news that more books about Whitey were coming out from the Boston Globe, I want to talk about whether it is in Whitey’s interest to testify, or even have a trial. Pam, in her comment, disagrees with my…

On Monday of this week I wrote about the new book that’s coming out today “Whitey Bulger: America’s Most Wanted Gangster and the Manhunt That Brought Him to Justice” by the Globe reporters, Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy. I pointed out how it will reinforce the in-house view of the Boston Globe. I haven’t read…