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>> the report made 16 recommendations on how to improve the informant program and the fbi has apparently agreed to implement all of them asap. >> shannon: so trace, shouldn't we or should we read anything with regard to the timing of this report. >> it is interesting that inspector general horowitz is choosing now to kind of released a report on confidential informants. considering his report on the origins of the trump russia probe could drop anytime. a big part of that report will likely focus on the use of confidential informants. primarily christopher steele, whose salacious and unverified...

Jeopardizing fbi operations, subjective investigation and the public in harm's way. >> reporter: the report made 16 recommendations on how to improve the informant program and the fbi has apparently agreed to implement all of them asap. >> should we or shouldn't we read anything into the timing of this report? >> it is interesting that inspector general horwitz is choosing not to release a report on confidential informants considering his report on the origins of that from russia probe could drop anytime and a big part of that report will likely focus on the use of confidential informants, pri...

Mid 1960s when j. edgar hoover created the informant program. bulger's partner had been a top informant long before bulger was. and in the '60s, there was a gangster named joe barboza, who cooperated with the government. he was sort of a precursor to bulger in some ways. he took the stand in a capital murder case and fingered four innocent people for a crime they didn't commit. and the government knew it. it was known all the way up to j. edgar hoover. this became the dirty secret of that jurisdiction for many generations after that. we wouldn't know about that until the '90s when bulger went ...