22.08.2012 - 08:21 [ techdirt ]

NYPD Spent Years Spying On Muslims, Generated Exactly Zero Leads

We just wrote about yet another (in a long line) of manufactured terrorist plots, in which the FBI creates its own terrorist plot to arrest anyone who can be coaxed into going along for the ride, even if they had no interest or ability to push the plot forward on their own. In that case, it was even more ridiculous, because they couldn‘t even find anyone willing to go along with the plot — and the main „suspect“ actually alerted the FBI to the informant who was trying to coax him into taking part in a plot (which didn‘t stop him from being arrested, even if the case was eventually dropped).