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To: Knighty Tin who wrote (111907)	3/4/2008 1:57:53 PM
From: Kerry Phineas	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Write in a vote for me. Kerry "Hussein Mohammed Obamma" Phineas.

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (111907)	3/4/2008 2:45:50 PM
From: Kerry Phineas	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

BTW, do you really think there isn't some big short squeeze scam coming in the next couple of days? The Fed isn't this honest. Oh, here it comes presumably.

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (111907)	3/4/2008 6:35:39 PM
From: Giordano Bruno	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

wonkette.com

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (111907)	3/4/2008 7:28:40 PM
From: Giordano Bruno	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Hillary is so beautiful and sexy when she's cornered. wonkette.com

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (111907)	3/5/2008 9:26:35 AM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

FBI: Don’t make us pay John Connolly’s debt Fights to get out of $3.1 judgement By Laurel J. Sweet Tuesday, March 4, 2008 - John Connolly “was a criminal who had a day job as an FBI agent,” the U.S. Department of Justice said yesterday by way of characterizing the infamous ex-G-man, as it scrambled to distance itself from the wrongful-death suits wrought by his brazen treachery. Debating the definition of “scope of employment,” DOJ attorney Thomas Bond has asked a panel of federal appeals court judges in Boston to rule that Connolly was motivated by the greed of a black heart - and not the pursuit of justice - when he buddied up to mobsters James “Whitey” Bulger and Stephen “The Rifleman” Flemmi and “helped (them) kill people.” “Only one conclusion is compelled here: He’s a traitor to the FBI,” Bond insisted. The feds are challenging the $3.1 million that U.S. District Court Judge Reginald C. Lindsay awarded a Quincy mother for the 1984 death of her son, John McIntyre. Acting on a tip from Connolly that McIntyre, 32, was going to accuse them of trying to smuggle arms to the Irish Republican Army, Flemmi testified in 2006 that he and Bulger chained McIntyre to a chair and tortured, choked and shot him to death before cutting out his teeth and tongue and burying him in the basement of a South Boston home. How the appellate judges rule will have a powerful domino effect on a half-dozen other wrongful-death actions awaiting trial. Was Connolly, 67, a loose cannon in the FBI arsenal? Or was the bureau itself culpable for murder because it allowed the rogue agent to trade McIntyre’s life to preserve Bulger and Flemmi as star informants. State law holds public employers liable for injuries and death caused by employees acting within the scope of their job. Attorney William Christie, defending 79-year-old Emily McIntyre’s right to reparation, told reporters he found it “disturbing” the DOJ “will admit what (Connolly) was, but not what the FBI” allowed him to do. Convicted in 2002 of racketeering and obstruction of justice, Connolly was sentenced to nine years behind bars. He is currently awaiting trial in Miami on charges he conspired with Bulger to whack former World Jai Alai president John Callahan in 1982. Bond said Connolly was “way off the reservation” for violating a sacred FBI rule to “never disclose informants’ identities.” “The FBI’s job (was) not to protect Bulger and Flemmi at all costs and it (wasn’t) Connolly’s job,” Bond said. lsweet@bostonherald.com (9) Comments \| Post / Read Comments