Burke Sticks Up for Snitch?

Evidently, Burke is attempting to right old wrongs again. First, Mrs. O'Leary; next, Edward O'Hare:

• Chicago police today agreed to take a look at an unsolved 70-year-old murder of Edward J. O'Hare, a Chicago lawyer who allegedly cooperated with federal authorities against infamous mobster Al Capone.

  The unusual request to revisit the investigation came from Alderman Edward Burke, 14th, at a meeting of the council's Police and Fire Committee and in advance of the release of a new book on Capone.

  Burke made it clear he didn't want detectives to spend too much time on the case, saying his intention was simply to set the record straight that it wasn't Eliot Ness who brought Capone to justice.

Aside from being a complete waste of police resources for some bizarre game of one-upsmanship involving the Irish and Italians mafias, we're surprised Burke is condoning snitching. After all, if the people who know Ed Burke told everything they knew about him and the midget-on-five, Ed would be cooling his heels behind bars with a number of ex-governors and half the Bridgeport crew.