THE ATLANTIC: Why Is the Justice Department Still Defending FBI Ties to the Mob? “It didn’t get nearly enough national attention Friday, with all the talk of Newt Gingrich’s wives, but the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston unanimously upheld not one but two civil judgments against the federal government for sheltering mobster James ‘Whitey’ Bulger as a confidential source for decades. Bulger now is behind bars, of course, captured last year hiding out in plain sight in California, money and guns hidden in the wall. Maybe now the FBI will use some of that loot to pay off some of Bulger’s victims?”