The FBI and ethics

There have been some stories over the past decades of people being convicted for murders which it was later discovered that they didn't commit. This story is crazier yet.

The judge found two Boston FBI agents had allowed Barboza to frame the men because Barboza and his friend, Vincent “Jimmy” Flemmi, one of Deegan’s killers, were FBI informants who provided evidence in the agency’s highly publicized war against La Cosa Nostra.

Last month, a federal judge excoriated the agency for withholding evidence of the men’s innocence and ordered the government to pay a record $101.7 million to the Salvati and Limone families and those of two other men convicted with them who died in prison. (From MSNBC)

Wow! Four men sent to prison to sit on death row. Thirty years later (after 2 of the 4 were dead) it's uncovered that the entire time some FBI agents knew that they were innocent but wanted to protect their informant.

(HT: GlennSacks.com)