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FBI informants / infiltrators / agent provocateurs could have more oversight

By Hicbd
Mon Nov 29 2021 8:40 am

"The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) conducted a damning audit of the DEA in 2016, questioning why half of the 18,000 active informants it had at the time were paid nearly $240 million in the past five years."

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10246175/Federal-agencies-paid-548-million-informants-working-FBI-DEA-ATF.html
https://theintercept.com/2017/01/31/how-the-fbi-conceals-its-payments-to-confidential-sources/
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kenbensinger/fbi-michigan-kidnap-whitmer
https://www.bostonmagazine.com/arts-entertainment/2019/04/17/docu-series-tamerlan-tsarnaev-maximum-harm-michele-mcphee/

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Government Debt / Spending / Budgeting U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) U.S. Government Corruption / Oversight / Ethics / Institutional Capture

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