informers

Chronicles the life of Soviet spy turned FBI informant Elizabeth Bentley, discussing how her actions started the greatest Red Scare in United States history.

Tells the life story of Elizabeth Bentley, the New England schoolteacher who fell in love with a KGB agent, became a spy for the Russians, and later switched allegiances again, naming several employees of the U.S. government as coconspirators.

Elizabeth Waring, a high-level official in the Organized Crime Division of the Justice Department, enters an uneasy alliance with Butcher's Boy, a professional killer who offers to give her the information she needs to solve a murder case in exchange for telling him who sent a Mafia hit team to take him out.

Examines the impact the War on Drugs has had on the criminal justice system, discussing how false testimony from witnesses, wrongful convictions, and the early return of "snitches" to the streets have undermined the government's efforts to stop street violence, drug sales, and crime.