Still waiting on the facts on the Feds saving people....


Nearly every major post-9/11 terrorism-related prosecution has involved a sting operation, at the center of which is a government informant. In these cases, the informants — who work for money or are seeking leniency on criminal charges of their own — have crossed the line from merely observing potential criminal behavior to encouraging and assisting people to participate in plots that are largely scripted by the FBI itself. Under the FBI’s guiding hand, the informants provide the weapons, suggest the targets and even initiate the inflammatory political rhetoric that later elevates the charges to the level of terrorism..

France, the UK, and most of Europe would benefit from this.The U.S. Government has been aggressively pressuring its allies to adopt the same “sting” tactics against their own Muslim citizens (and like most War on Terror abuses, this practice is now fully seeping into non-terrorism domestic law: in a drug smuggling prosecution last year, a federal judge condemned the Drug Enforcement Agency for luring someone into smuggling cocaine, saying that “the government’s investigation deployed techniques that generated a wholly new crime for the sake of pressing criminal charges against” the defendant).
Great. So this clearly unstable clown was known to fly off at the mouth and get "angry" too?Many of the key facts in this latest case are still unknown, but there are ample reasons to treat this case with substantial skepticism. Though he had brushes with the law as a minor arguably indicative of anger issues, the 20-year-old Cornell had no history of engaging in politically-motivated violence (he disrupted a local 9/11 memorial ceremony last year by yelling a 9/11 Truth slogan, but was not arrested).
Soooooooooooooooooooooo?There is no evidence he had any contact with any overseas or domestic terrorist operatives (the informant vaguely claims that Cornell claims he “had been in contact with persons overseas” but ultimately told the informant that “he did not think he would receive specific authorization to conduct a terrorist attack in the United States”).

All these kids are innocent until shyt gets real, huh?Cornell’s father accused the FBI of responsibility for the plot, saying of his son: “He’s a mommy’s boy. His best friend is his cat Mikey. He still calls his mother ‘Mommy.'” His father said that “he might be 20, but he was more like a 16-year-old kid who never left the house.” He added that his son had only $1,200 in his bank account, and that the money to purchase guns could only have come from the FBI. It was the FBI, he said, who were “taking him somewhere, and they were filling his head with a lot of this garbage.”

First time for everythingThe mosque with which Cornell was supposedly associated is itself tiny, a non-profit that reported a meager $115,000 in revenue last year. It has no history of producing terrorism suspects or violent radicals.
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Whatever else is true, a huge dose of scrutiny and skepticism should be applied to the FBI’s claims. Media organizations certainly should not be trumpeting this as some dangerous terror plot from which the FBI heroically saved us all, nor telling their viewers that the FBI “uncovered” a plot that it actually created, nor trying to depict it (as MSNBC’s Steve Kornacki did in the pictured segment) as part of some larger plot of international terror groups, at least not without further evidence (and, just by the way, Mr. Kornacki: Anwar Awlaki was not “the leader of Al Qaeda in Yemen,” no matter how much repeating that false claim might help President Obama, who ordered that U.S. citizen killed with no due process).

This I agree with.Nor should politicians like John Boehner be permitted without challenge to claim that this scary plot shows how crucial is the Patriot Act and the NSA domestic spying program in keeping us safe.
Not to Glenn Greenwald.Having crazed loners get guns and seek to shoot people is, of course, a threat.

Sounds like money well spent. Again.But so is allowing the FBI to manufacture terror plots: in the process keeping fear levels about terrorism completely inflated, along with its own surveillance powers and budget. Ohio is a major recipient of homeland security spending: it “has four fusion centers, more than any other state except California, New York and Texas. Ohio also ranks fourth in the nation (tying New York) with four FBI Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTFs).”

Something has to be done to justify all that terrorism spending. For all those law enforcement agents with little to do, why not sit around and manufacture plots to justify those expenditures, giving a boost to their pro-surveillance ideology to boot? Media outlets have a responsibility to investigate the FBI’s claims, not mindlessly repeat them while parading their alarmed faces and scary graphics
Impossible statistic to calculate...since well...you know...we'd have to LET ATTACKS HAPPEN.Still waiting on the facts on the Feds saving people....![]()

because people are unwavering liberals even to threats they refuse to admit.
1. If investigative reporting is something you love, why isn't this the only article by investigative reporters speaking on entrapment of muslims.
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Impossible statistic to calculate...since well...you know...we'd have to LET ATTACKS HAPPEN.
Dumbass![]()
You don't even believe the date on the calendar, so why are we taking you seriously on any point of validity about worldly events?So just like the FBI, you faked your point.

because people are unwavering liberals even to threats they refuse to admit.

You don't even believe the date on the calendar, so why are we taking you seriously on any point of validity about worldly events?![]()
I guess we should let these unstable people follow through on their actionsNo evidence of FBI saving people...and you can't provide any even though you said there was some. Bizarro World.

I guess we should let these unstable people follow through on their actions![]()
Is this troll serious?Liberal....![]()

This dude even thinks the paris attacks were fakedthey'd be false flags. forget about it!

This dude even thinks the paris attacks were faked![]()
Right cause you saw the bodies of the artists of Charlie lying in the office dead. Oh that's right...the news told you.
I didn't see Michael Jackson die eitherRight cause you saw the bodies of the artists of Charlie lying in the office dead. Oh that's right...the news told you.

