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President obama. and whitey flipped out on her couldn t believe that she could admire a black han as being the stuff of the white house. and that just really stayed with her when you fast forward a couple years to june 2011 and she s hearing reports about, you know, this america s most wanted, and whitey bulger and his girlfriend. and it kicked right in for her between the cat and his racism. so it really in the end, you know, had a big part of his fall. dick, there s this weird phenomenon you talked about,der inger, where we lionize these fugatives who manage to evade capture for so long. tb cooper, bonnie and clyde. what was it about whitey bulger that made him such a compelling figure? i know the boston media gave him some cover for quite some time. you know, what was it about him? you say he wasn t actually a ....
He was bigger, more powerful than the mafia in boston and went through this unbelievable makeover when the unthinkable, you know, tumbled out in the late 80s that he was not only an informant for the fbi, but he had managed to turn the fbi into, you know, basically an extension of his gang. you know, it becomes mind-boggli mind-boggling. and he is responsible for an enormous amount of damage to the nation s, you know, top law enforcement agency of the fbi but also to, you know, countless number of families in so many different ways in boston. you know, it s one of these weird flukes with publishing. there are actually two new whitey bulger books coming out right now. but i ve got to say, this one, folks, this is the one to read. dick lehrer and jerry o neill have been on this story longer than any other reporter. if you are interested in whitey bulger, i couldn t give as high a recommendation. dick lehrer, thanks for joining us. up next is the answer to america s great political d ....
Thanks for being here, dick. i guess reading this book, one thing that jumps out at me, you have the whole story established in black mass about the aligns with the fbi and whitey and how the fbi basically let whitey become this notorious crime boss. but this is also a story about the failure of the political system over decades. you have whitey in federal prison for bank robbery in the late 50s, early 60s and there s the speaker of the house of the u.s. representatives, john mccormick, a guy from south boston. robert drinen, a congressman from massachusetts in the 70s as the dean of the boston college law school vouching for him. and his brother, billy, who was the most powerful politician in massachusetts for all these years. it seems like this is a story about politics as much as it is about the fbi. it is. when you look at the long life of whitey bulger, you end up opening doors into many other worlds, politics being a big one. and whitey bulger, when he was ....