Bush aids mob cover-up. (Insider Report).In early December, President Bush invoked executive privilege executive privilege, exemption of the executive branch of government, or its officers, from having to give evidence, specifically, in U.S. law, the exemption of the president from disclosing information to congressional inquiries or the judiciary. to nullify nul·li·fy tr.v. nul·li·fied, nul·li·fy·ing, nul·li·fies 1. To make null; invalidate. 2. To counteract the force or effectiveness of. a congressional subpoena subpoena (səpē`nə) [Lat.,=under penalty], in law, an order to a witness to appear before a court. A subpoena ad testificandum [Lat. "exploring abuses in the Boston FBI office," reported the December 14th Boston Globe. The House Government Reform Committee was investigating the FBI's use of confidential informants during its investigation of organized crime. The committee was trying to learn about possible deals struck with suspected mob hit man Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi and reputed mob boss James "Whitey whit·ey also Whit·ey n. pl. whit·eys Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a white person or white people. Noun 1. " Bulger. It was also trying to learn what the Bureau had known about the case of Massachusetts man Joseph Salvati, who spent 30 years in prison for a murder he did not commit. In 1997, a judge ruled "that FBI agents hid testimony that would have cleared Salvati because they wanted to protect an informant," noted the Globe. To his credit, committee chairman Dan Burton Danny "Dan" Lee Burton (born June 21 1938), American politician, is a member of the United States House of Representatives for Indiana's At-large congressional district. A Republican, his first term in the United States Congress began in January 1983. (R-Ind.), who doggedly investigated Bill Clinton's abuse of executive power, has been just as outspoken about President Bush's abuses. "You tell the president there's going to be war between the president and the committee," Burton told deputy assistant attorney general Carl Thorsen. "We've got a dictatorial president and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved.... Your guy's acting like a king." True to his word, Burton has continued digging. Former California law enforcement officers told Burton's committee on February 13th that Mafia hit man Joseph "The Animal" Barboza Joseph "The Animal" Barboza (d. 1976) was an American mobster, hit man, and former boxer from New Bedford, Massachusetts, during the 1960s. Although of Portuguese descent, Barboza's East Boston crew deferred to the judgment of the Patriarca crime family and included future Winter "likely killed at least three times while in the federal Witness Protection Program in the early 1970s and won parole with the help of federal agents," reported the Boston Herald. Ed Cameron, a former Sonoma County investigator, told the committee that the FBI's intervention ruined a death penalty case against Barboza in 1971 "and showed little interest in evidence that Barboza killed three others [in California] while under the government's watch." "I never got so much as a return phone call," complained Cameron. Barboza's perjured per·jure tr.v. per·jured, per·jur·ing, per·jures Law To make (oneself) guilty of perjury by deliberately testifying falsely under oath. testimony helped convict Salvati for a murder he didn't commit -- and the FBI allegedly concealed evidence that would have exposed the hit man's perjury perjury (pûr`jərē), in criminal law, the act of willfully and knowingly stating a falsehood under oath or under affirmation in judicial or administrative proceedings. . "Barboza had the FBI wrapped around his little finger," insists Salvati's attorney Victor Garo, who spent a quarter-century trying to clear his client. In a June 22, 1998 article, "FBI Covering for Criminals," THE NEW AMERICAN covered much of the FBI-Boston Mafia collusion, including the FBI protection of Bulger and Flemmi and the cover-up of their mob executions. |
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