“Allah didn’t put you here to work at Walmart”: How an FBI informant coaxes his target toward a bomb

[EFerrari]

Great Mojo compilation of this FBI cottage industry. Lots more at link.

The Informants
The FBI has built a massive network of spies to prevent another domestic attack. But are they busting terrorist plots—or leading them?
—Trevor Aaronson
http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/08/fbi-terrorist-informants

Locked Up Abroad—for the FBI
How our government enlists foreign regimes to detain and interrogate American citizens.
—Nick Baumann
http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/08/proxy-detention-gulet-mohamed

Radical Leftist or Feds' BFF?
To many on the left, Brandon Darby was a hero. To federal agents consumed with busting anarchist terror cells, he was the perfect snitch.
—Josh Harkinson
http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/08/brandon-darby-anarchist-fbi-terrorism


Link to compilation main page.
http://motherjones.com/special-reports/2011/08/fbi-terrorist-informants

[gratuitous]

1. We apparently don't have enough terrorism

The FBI has to foment some more. Gotta make some headlines around appropriations time. Been the M.O. of Hoover's little shop of horrors for decades now.

[Solly Mack]

2. k/r