Gene Healy: How the Whitey Bulger Trial Points to the Value of Cameras in Federal Courtrooms
Credit: srqpix / Foter / CC BYOur government conspired with Boston’s Irish
Mafia for 20 years and all we got was this lousy sketch. The
Whitey Bulger story represents “the worst case of corruption in the
history of the F.B.I.,” says former federal prosecutor Michael D.
Kendall, “a multigenerational, systematic alliance with organized
crime, where the F.B.I. was actively participating in the murders
of government witnesses.” But, unless you’re from Boston, you
probably missed it. According to Gene Healy, it is time to
reevaluate the law that bans cameras in federal court.