



Put him before an audience of young G-men and, if he was in the mood to be candid, the career criminal could lay out the why and wherefore of how not to manage informants. No, the real reason is that at present, with yet another spate of warnings that bin Laden's boys may be planning a reprise of September 11, Bulger might actually be able to render his country a service. Not just because the fugitive boss of Boston's Irish Mafia is a serial killer, which he is, nor because his rather relaxed life on the run makes a further mockery of the agency's tattered claim to be America's most effective and efficient law-enforcement agency. By ROGER FRANKLIN Herald correspondent What a pity the FBI can't find James "Whitey" Bulger.
