Imprisoned ex-FBI agent vows he "never crossed the line"

Former FBI agent John Connolly is starting to name names. In this jailhouse interview in Miami yesterday with The Boston Globe, Connolly acknowledges former U.S. Attorney Jeremiah O'Sullivan, head of the organized crime strike force, let informants James "Whitey" Bulger and Stephen Flemmi commit crimes in the late 1970s in exchange for information about the Italian mob.

In this interview, Connolly blames the Justice Department for creating Bulger and Flemmi's killing spree that took more than 20 lives, not the FBI. "The Justice Department uses very bad people to get worse people," he says.

Connolly's sentencing today on his November conviction for manslaughter in connection with Bulger's murder of an associate has been postponed. The judge decided not to sentence the former agent after receiving new defense motions claiming the statute of limitations had expired in the case.