FBI organizes almost all terror plots in the US

Russia Today ^ | 8/25/11 | staff

[Nachum]

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 that’s a few spies too many — spies earning as much as $100,000 per assignment — one doesn’t 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.

The report reveals that the FBI regularly infiltrates communities where they suspect terrorist-minded individuals to be engaging with others. Regardless of their intentions, agents are sent in to converse within the community, find suspects that could potentially carry out “lone wolf” attacks and then, more or less, encourage them to do so. By providing weaponry, funds and a plan, FBI-directed agents will encourage otherwise-unwilling participants to plot out terrorist attacks, only to bust them before any events fully materialize.

[Nachum]

The Russians up to their old tricks. Some things never change.

[Responsibility2nd]

And they’re citing reports from Mother Jones.

Hoo boy!

[GraceG]

Somehwere in Austin TX, Alex Jones’s head just exploded....

[Twotone]

Actually, this makes sense to me. I remember back to the first World Trade Center bombing. I seem to remember that there was testimony from a man who had actually helped the plot along & he was an informant for the FBI.

[heartwood]

Well, if you read about the foiled terrorists, most of them either have an FBI informer in their midst or were in an outright sting. And most were pretty stupid.

Sort of like releasing millions of sterilized Mediterranean male fruit flies, so your female (target terrorist) fruit flies will mate with them. Of course you get a smart enough female or one that was fertilized abroad, and all bets are off.

So the FBI had better not be too smug about its insect control successes.

/strange analogy mode

[Designer]

"A recent report.."

LOL! I wonder what took them so long?

[KarlInOhio]

I heard that the joke among politically radical groups in the 1960s and 70s that the member advocating blowing something up was likely the FBI infiltrator.

[Pessimist]

Well, not to sound too tin foil, but given the gun walker scandal, is this really that far fetched?

You infiltrate and actually “help” some group plan an attack. Then when you nab them, you go for the headlines.

The intended result is that the American public says

A) They’re really doing a good job

and

B) They deserve more funding.

No way bureaucrats would ever think of that. Right?

[Nachum]

Maybe.

But couldn’t we also ask why the FBI is the target of the Russians?

The FBI is not the agency that had been pushing Gunwalker.

[Psalm 144]

From the people who organized the Okhrana, wrote the Protocols of Zion, and coined the term ‘disinformation’ (dyesinformatsya).

Still, it took the FBI to bring us Ruby Ridge, Filegate and Waco.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

There is no doubt that the Oklahoma City bombing was an FBI-sting gone wild.

[haroldeveryman]

“By providing weaponry, funds and a plan, FBI-directed agents will encourage otherwise-unwilling participants to plot out terrorist attacks, only to bust them before any events fully materialize.”

This sounds like “Operation Fast and Furious” with bombs. At least wait until 2012 when Holder and Obama aren’t running things.

[andy58-in-nh]

I would hazard a guess that there are currently as many Russian intelligence recruits working in our news media as there were during the height of the Cold War. One qualitative difference might be that mainstream journalists tend to succumb only to false flag operations, whereas those who labor at old-line Stalinist publications such as The Nation and Mother Jones may be approached rather directly, and without a hint of shame.

[zeugma]

Actually, this makes sense to me. I remember back to the first World Trade Center bombing. I seem to remember that there was testimony from a man who had actually helped the plot along & he was an informant for the FBI.

The FBI admitted in open court that they provided the bomb for the WTC bombing.  The government is not your friend. They always have an agenda.

[Buckeye McFrog]

ahhh, RT. Always good for it’s entertainment value.
Makes me nostalgic for the old days hearing Vladimir Posner read articles from Pravda on shortwave.

[zeugma]

There is no doubt that the Oklahoma City bombing was an FBI-sting gone wild.

Among other things. There was a lot more going on there than just a sting.