So the FBI's PR effort to catch Whitey Bulger was dumb, huh?

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Guess they're not snickering anymore at the Rachel Maddow show. From the NYT:

At a news conference at the United States attorney's office in Boston on Thursday, Richard DesLauriers, the special agent in charge of the F.B.I.'s Boston office, said the bureau's Los Angeles field office received the crucial tip just after 8 p.m. Pacific time on Tuesday. He said the tip was a "direct result" of the new publicity campaign to raise Ms. Greig's profile. The agency also doubled its reward for Ms. Greig's capture to $100,000. The Los Angeles office immediately relayed the tip to a special command post in Boston, Mr. DesLauriers said, that had been set up to analyze tips from the new campaign around the clock.