WASHINGTON, May 22 (UPI) -- The U.S. Justice Department is voicing concern about a Web site that posts government informants' names along with their pictures.
Anthony Capone, who told The New York Times he was a spokesman for the whosarat.com site, said the site is legal and information is acquired from accessible court records.
"Everybody has a choice in life about what they want to do for a living," Capone said. "Nobody likes a tattletale."
The Justice Department is calling for federal courts to remove all plea agreements from court papers, the report said.
U.S. District Judge John Tunheim, in Minneapolis, and the chairman of a Judicial Conference committee debating the issue, said he favored putting the details of a witness's cooperation into a separate document and sealing only that document rather than the whole case file.
"I really do not want to see a situation in which plea agreements are routinely sealed or kept out of the electronic record," he told the Times.
