FBI had mole inside ABC News
• Center for Public IntegrityA once-classified FBI memo reveals that the bureau treated a senior ABC News journalist as a potential confidential informant in the 1990s, pumping the reporter to ascertain the source of a sensational but uncorroborated tip that the network had obt
Seeing as how the FBI and ATF were equally guilty of allowing the event to happen in the first place, employing the mole was undoubtedly an effort to keep their culpability from coming to light. No surprise there. I'm more curious about what jam the reporter got into that the FBI used to flip them.