Nearly all of the highest-profile domestic terrorism plots in the United States since 9\/11 featured the “direct involvement” of government agents or informants, a new report says.<\/span>
<\/span>Some of the controversial “sting” operations “were proposed or led by informants”, bordering on entrapment by law enforcement. Yet the courtroom obstacles to proving entrapment are significant, one of the reasons the stings persist.<\/span>
<\/span>The lengthy report, released on Monday by Human Rights Watch, raises questions about the US criminal justice system’s ability to respect civil rights and due process in post-9\/11 terrorism cases. It portrays a system that features not just the sting operations but secret evidence, anonymous juries, extensive pretrial detentions and convictions significantly removed from actual plots.<\/span>
<\/span>“In some cases the FBI may have created terrorists out of law-abiding individuals by suggesting the idea of taking terrorist action or encouraging the target to act,” the report alleges.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\nWhich ones weren’t? Those ones:<\/p>\n
The four high-profile domestic plots it found free of government involvement were the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing; Najibullah Zazi’s 2009 plot to bomb the New York subway; the attempted Times Square carbombing of 2010; and the 2002 shooting at Los Angeles International Airport’s El Al counter.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\nSo, while the FBI has been finding random idiots (read the case files, they are really<\/b> stupid, while missing all of of the plots that actually<\/b> went through to fruition. <\/p>\n
But they did catch one<\/b> potential terrorist that they did not sponsor \u2026\u2026\u2026 They just missed the other \u00be of them.<\/p>\n
It’s an adequate batting average, for a pitcher<\/span><\/b>, I guess.<\/p>\nYou know, maybe the FBI should stop manufacturing terrorist plots, and start looking at real<\/b> terror plots.<\/p>\n
And while they are at it, how about going after the f%$#ing banksters? They are still defrauding the rest of us.<\/p>\n
And while we are at it, how about a pony.<\/p>\n
I’m not gonna get that either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
You know all those terrorism plots that the FBI uncovered? A study has revealed that the FBI manufactured most of the terror plots that it broke up: Nearly all of the highest-profile domestic terrorism plots in the United States since 9\/11 featured the “direct involvement” of government agents or informants, a new report says.Some of …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,970,972,1041],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-corruption","category-justice","category-law-enforcement-misconduct"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185895"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}