But the Justice Department seems more interested in denigrating Whitehurst, the lone hero of this sorry tale, than flagellating itself. The FBI claims that she was dropped as an informant months before the bombing, but debriefing reports show the Bureau continued to receive her intelligence weeks after the blast. They also show that she named members of a neo-Nazi terrorist cell who had cased the Oklahoma federal building in December 1994 with the intention of bombing it. Yet the FBI did not follow up her reports. It conducted 26,000 witness interviews, most of them irrelevant, but could not find time to pursue the suspects who were specifically named by a paid informant.
Degradation spreads from the top down.
Four years were damaging enough. Another four, if Clinton lasts, will do real harm to the institutions of the U.S. federal government. It is, however, a hotly debated fact that Mr. Clinton is not the top, nor does he decide national policy, no matter how corrupt. Perhaps it is impolite for a London newspaper to say such things about a president of the United States. Many people think so.