Newly disclosed documents show the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the US allowed its informants to commit at least 5,658 crimes in a single year

Newly disclosed documents show the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the US allowed its informants to commit at least 5,658 crimes in a single year.

In an exclusive report, USA Today revealed on Monday that America’s top law enforcement agency authorized 15 crimes a day, ranging from buying and selling illegal drugs to bribing government officials, in 2011.
The FBI has been submitting a tally of crimes by its informants to the US Justice Department for more than a decade but has never made such tallies public.
USA Today obtained a copy of the bureau’s report for 2011 under the Freedom of Information Act.
A spokesperson for the FBI has refused to comment on the report, saying the circumstances under which FBI informants can break the law are “tightly controlled”.
Meanwhile, US Congressmen have raised concerns over the secrecy surrounding the issue.
Earlier this month, it was also reported that FBI agents have been using tools and tactics routinely used by computer hackers, such as spyware delivered to computers and phones through email and Web links, in order to spy on their targets.