The FBI ‘is Manufacturing Terrorism Cases’ on a Greater Scale Than Ever Before

June 15, 2016 by mosesman

http://www.amazon.com/The-Terror-Factory-Manufactured-Terrorism/dp/1935439618#_ — A groundbreaking work of investigative journalism, The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI’s Manufactured War on Terrorism exposes how the FBI has, under the guise of engaging in counterterrorism since 9/11, built a network of more than 15,000 informants whose primary purpose is to infiltrate Muslim communities to create and facilitate phony terrorist plots so that the Bureau can then claim it is winning the war on terror.

The FBI ‘is Manufacturing Terrorism Cases’ on a Greater Scale Than Ever Before
by CAROLINE SIMON, http://www.businessinsider.com/
The FBI has ramped up its use of sting operations in terrorism cases, dispatching undercover agents to pose as jihadists and ensnare Americans suspected of backing the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL.
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Today, roughly 67% of prosecutions involving suspected ISIS supporters include evidence from undercover operations, according to the New York Times. In many cases, agents will seek out people who have somehow demonstrated radical views, then coax them into plotting an act of terrorism — often providing weapons and money. Before the suspects can carry out their plans, they’re arrested.
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But critics say that the FBI’s tactics only serve to entrap individuals who would never have committed any violence without the government’s instigation. “They’re manufacturing terrorism cases,” Michael German, a former undercover agent with the FBI who now researches national security law at New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice, told the Times. ‘These people are five steps away from being a danger to the United States.”
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‘They target people who are genuinely psychotic’
Increasingly, experts are worried that undercover operations of this kind infringe on the rights of Americans. Stephen Downs, an attorney and founding member of Project Salam, told Business Insider that “the government has developed a technique of engaging targets in conversations of a somewhat provocative nature, and then trying to pick up on things the target says which might suggest illegal activity — and then trying to push them into pursuing those particular activities.”
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Downs also said the FBI often targets particularly vulnerable individuals, such as those with mental disabilities. “Very often, they [the FBI] target people who are genuinely psychotic, who are taking medication,” he said.
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