The FBI Goes Rogue

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from Consortium News:



The FBI Goes Rogue
August 30, 2011

One neoconservative argument against American Muslims is that there is a correlation between mosques and FBI terror investigations. But that may be circular logic since the FBI targets mosques with paid informants trying to detect potential “lone wolves” and lure them into terrorist acts, as Lawrence Davidson observes.

By Lawrence Davidson


Here is an important question: What single organization is responsible for more terror plots in the USA than any other?

Possible answers: Al Qaida. That would no doubt be the popular answer but it would be wrong. The KKK. Way past their prime, so that is not it. The Jewish Defense League. Good guess, but still not it. So what is the correct answer?

It is the Federal Bureau of Investigation, AKA the FBI. Don’t believe me? Well, just read Trevor Aaronson’s expose entitled “The Informants” published in the September/October 2011 issue of Mother Jones.
　
Aaronson looked at over 500 terrorism-related cases taken up by the FBI and found that over half of them involved the Bureau’s stable of 15,000 informants. Many of these are ex-felons and con men who are often paid well if their efforts result in an arrest and conviction. .........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://consortiumnews.com/2011/08/30/the-fbi-goes-rogue/

[bemildred]

1. This is not new and it is not differerent.

Our own secret police.

[Demeter]

2. One of several competing secret police

Everybody wants to get in the act---Jimmy Durante?