Saturday, November 19, 2011

Tactics Of FBI 'Entrapment' Questioned

Fake Terror Plots, Paid Informants: The Tactics Of FBI 'Entrapment' Questioned -- The Guardian

Critics say bureau is running a sting operation across America, targeting vulnerable people by luring them into fake terror plots

David Williams did not have an easy life. He moved to Newburgh, a gritty, impoverished town on the banks of the Hudson an hour or so north of New York, at just 10 years old. For a young, black American boy with a father in jail, trouble was everywhere.

Williams also made bad choices. He ended up going to jail for dealing drugs. When he came out in 2007 he tried to go straight, but money was tight and his brother, Lord, needed cash for a liver transplant. Life is hard in Newburgh if you are poor, have a drug rap and need cash quickly.

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My Comment: If this is how the FBI conducts counter-terrorism investigations .... sighhhh .... I do not feel anymore safer than I was before .... especially when it is "stupid and desperate" men who are arrested and convicted for conspiring to commit terrorism.

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