Investigative reporter Trevor Aaronson- executive director of the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting, author of The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI’s Manufactured War on Terrorism – has spent years researching and writing about FBI terrorism “stings” on mentally retarded and destitute Muslims orchestrated by informants convicted of rape and child molestation, who make some $100,000 per sting.
Aaronson notes:
The FBI is responsible for more terrorism plotsin the United Statesthan any other organization.More than al Qaeda,more than al Shabaab,more than the Islamic State,more than all of them combined.
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I’ve spent years pouring through the case filesof terrorism prosecutions in the United States,and I’ve come to the conclusion that the FBIis much better at creating terrorists than it is at catching terrorists.
Aaronson points out that the FBI hasn’t denied his reports:
We used the court file to find out whetherthe defendants had any connections to international terrorist groups,whether an informant was used,and whether the informant played the role of an agent provocateurby providing the means and opportunity.And we submitted that to the FBIand we asked them to respond to our database.If they believed there were any errors,we asked them to tell us what they were and we’d go back and checkand they never challenged any of our findings.Later, I used that data in a magazine articleand later in my book,and on appearances on places like CBS and NPR,they were offered that opportunity againto say, “Trevor Aaronson’s findings are wrong.”And they’ve never come forward and said,“These are the problems with those findings.”So the data has since been used by groups like Human Rights Watchon its recent report on these types of sting operations.And so far, the FBI has never really respondedto these charges that it’s really not catching terroristsso much as it’s catching mentally ill peoplethat it can dress up as terrorists in these types of sting operations.
And see this.
Clinton and Bush’s top counter-terrorism czar – Richard Clarke – said:
A lot of the cases after 9/11 were manufactured or enormously exaggerated and were announced with great trumpets by the attorney general and the FBI director so that we felt that they were doing something when, in fact, what they were doing was not helpful, not relevant, not needed.
We noted in 2011: