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In reply to the discussion: Officials: Al-Qaida bomber was CIA informant [View all]jakeXT
(10,575 posts)26. FBI organizes almost all terror plots in the US
The Federal Bureau of Investigation employs upwards of 15,000 undercover agents today, ten times what they had on the roster back in 1975.
If you think thats a few spies too many spies earning as much as $100,000 per assignment one doesnt have to go too deep into their track record to see their accomplishments. Those agents are responsible for an overwhelming amount of terrorist stings that have stopped major domestic catastrophes in the vein of 9/11 from happening on American soil.
Another thing those agents are responsible for, however, is plotting those very schemes.
The FBI has in recent years used trained informants not just to snitch on suspected terrorists, but to set them up from the get-go. A recent report put together by Mother Jones and the Investigative Reporting Program at the University of California-Berkley analyses some striking statistics about the role of FBI informants in terrorism cases that the Bureau has targeted in the decade since the September 11 attacks.
http://rt.com/usa/news/fbi-terror-report-plot-365-899/
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I called it yesterday as a PR stunt as damage control for all the people they have been murdering.
Arctic Dave
May 2012
#20
So now the terrorist market has declined so precipitously that we have to subsidize them . . .
MrModerate
May 2012
#15
I could easily join in on the cynicism in this thread, but this actually seems like a good thing.
truthisfreedom
May 2012
#22
You have to give them credit for bringing some of the dumbest of the dumb out of the woodwork
slackmaster
May 2012
#32