Glenn Greenwald: The FBI successfully thwarts its own Terrorist plot
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It may very well be that the FBI successfully and within legal limits arrested a dangerous criminal intent on carrying out a serious Terrorist plot that would have killed many innocent people, in which case they deserve praise. Court-approved surveillance and use of undercover agents to infiltrate terrorist plots are legitimate tactics when used in accordance with the law. But it may also just as easily be the case that the FBI — as they’ve done many times in the past — found some very young, impressionable, disaffected, hapless, aimless, inept loner; created a plot it then persuaded/manipulated/entrapped him to join, essentially turning him into a Terrorist; and then patted itself on the back once it arrested him for having thwarted a “Terrorist plot” which, from start to finish, was entirely the FBI’s own concoction
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It is probably not surprisng that this was my very first thought when I heard about this incident. And although it definitely harks back to the “false flag” operation of 9/11 – and how that was “used” to (i) ram through a neocon agenda (including two wars and the evisceration of civil liberties), and (ii) create a “climate of fear” with which to control the population – this one really goes further, back to the 1993 WTC bombing, which was unarguably an FBI-created event. (There was even an article on the front page of the NYT about it at the time.)
These incidents (possibly including the “shoe bomber,” the “underwear bomber” and the Times Square bomb attempt) are all simply meant to remind us how scared we should be, why we should be willing to compromise on freedom and civil liberty, and why we should trust our government to protect us.
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