09.02.2013 - 11:14 [ techdirt ]

FBI ‚Stops‘ Yet Another Of Its Own Terrorist Threats

Right here in the San Francisco Bay Area, the FBI has gleefully announced how they‘ve stopped an attempt to bomb a Bank of America building in Oakland. The details are familiar: random guy with no actual connection to terrorists, and no actual way to build a connection with terrorists, is taken in by an FBI undercover agent who works with him to build a „bomb“ that was never a bomb.