18.12.2013 - 19:04 [ Techdirt ]

Appeals Court Upholds Life Prison Sentence For Iraqi ‚Terrorist‘ Caught In One Of The FBI‘s Own Terrorist Plots

Over the past few years, we‘ve reported over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again, that the FBI‘s „anti-terrorism“ strategy appears to be setting up its own fake terrorist plots, convincing gullible young men to „join“, and then arresting them for participating in a terrorist plot where there was no chance of any actual terrorism happening, because all of the weapons were fake and all of the other participants were with the FBI. Defenders of these programs argue that they‘re „flushing out“ potential terrorists, but many of us worry about where this crosses the line into entrapment and a sort of „pre-crime“ rather than stopping any actual crime. In many cases, the deeper you look at the details, the more you realize how much the FBI really led the charge, and even coaxed participants into taking part.