FBI’s Fake Terror Plots Draw Growing Criticism
Show me someone arrested by the FBI over a terror plot and I’ll show you a fake terror plot created wholecloth by the FBI.
This has been the recurring theme in high profile “terror arrests” for the FBI, in which a fake terrorist is provided with fake explosives and then arrested for fake blowing something up. But arrests where the “target, motive, ideology and the plot” are all a creation of the FBI are facing growing scrutiny, as well as claims of entrapment.
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