Posted on 07/07/2021 6:05:28 AM PDT by MNDude
In many cases, agents will seek out people who have somehow demonstrated radical views, and then coax them into plotting an act of terrorism — often providing weapons and money. Before the suspects can carry out their plans, though, they're arrested.
But critics say that the FBI's tactics serve to entrap only 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."
Downs, an attorney and founding member of Project Salam, which gives legal support to Muslims, 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."
Downs also said that the FBI often targets particularly vulnerable people, such as those with mental disabilities.
"Very often, they [the FBI] target people who are genuinely psychotic, who are taking medication,"
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Anyone else remember when Tucker Carlson had a section about the FBI agents that provoked a Muslim, then drove the armed man to the “Draw Mohammed” Festival?
Beware your neighbors.
It increases funding and secures their pensions.
If you’re White, turn in your neighbor for being a White Supremist, flying the American flag to prominately, being proud of your heritage or sending your kids to a private school that does not teach CRT.
The Federal government is the enemy of the American people.
The serious terrorism is the threat of the American gulag!
They want this turned into a national “crisis” so they can justify taking guns from non-violent people and jailing them for having a MAGA hat.
Farcebook is now creating a database of right wing “extremists.” (If you’ve been following the news, you’ll know what I mean.) They aren’t doing this for amusement. They are doing it at the behest of the powers behind the democrat party. It will be used as part of the current ongoing purge of the democrats’ enemies.
F’n crazy.... They should be indicted for being part of the crime!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
(derived from COunter INTELligence PROgram) (1956–1971) was a series of covert and illegal[1][2] projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting American political organizations.
...The FBI has used covert operations against domestic political groups since its inception; however, covert operations under the official COINTELPRO label took place between 1956 and 1971.[12] COINTELPRO tactics are still used to this day and have been alleged to include discrediting targets through psychological warfare; smearing individuals and groups using forged documents and by planting false reports in the media; harassment; wrongful imprisonment; and illegal violence, including assassination.[13][14][15][16] The FBI’s stated motivation was “protecting national security, preventing violence, and maintaining the existing social and political order”.[17]
...Illegal surveillance
The final report of the Church Committee concluded:
Too many people have been spied upon by too many Government agencies and too much information has been illegally collected. The Government has often undertaken the secret surveillance of citizens on the basis of their political beliefs, even when those beliefs posed no threat of violence or illegal acts on behalf of a hostile foreign power. The Government, operating primarily through secret and biased informants, but also using other intrusive techniques such as wiretaps, microphone “bugs”, surreptitious mail opening, and break-ins, has swept in vast amounts of information about the personal lives, views, and associations of American citizens. Investigations of groups deemed potentially dangerous—and even of groups suspected of associating with potentially dangerous organizations—have continued for decades, despite the fact that those groups did not engage in unlawful activity.
Groups and individuals have been assaulted, repressed, harassed and disrupted because of their political views, social beliefs and their lifestyles. Investigations have been based upon vague standards whose breadth made excessive collection inevitable. Unsavory, harmful and vicious tactics have been employed—including anonymous attempts to break up marriages, disrupt meetings, ostracize persons from their professions, and provoke target groups into rivalries that might result in deaths. Intelligence agencies have served the political and personal objectives of presidents and other high officials. While the agencies often committed excesses in response to pressure from high officials in the Executive branch and Congress, they also occasionally initiated improper activities and then concealed them from officials whom they had a duty to inform.
Governmental officials—including those whose principal duty is to enforce the law—have violated or ignored the law over long periods of time and have advocated and defended their right to break the law.
The Constitutional system of checks and balances has not adequately controlled intelligence activities. Until recently the Executive branch has neither delineated the scope of permissible activities nor established procedures for supervising intelligence agencies. Congress has failed to exercise sufficient oversight, seldom questioning the use to which its appropriations were being put. Most domestic intelligence issues have not reached the courts, and in those cases when they have reached the courts, the judiciary has been reluctant to grapple with them.[92][93]
>>In many cases, agents will seek out people who have somehow demonstrated radical views, and then coax them into plotting an act of terrorism
As if they didn’t try this in 2010 against the TEA Party patriots but no on ever took the bait.
it’s easier to catch people who you yourself entrap, than going after those who have been financing, instigating, and organizing nationwide riots. That might actually take some time and effort.
Isn’t that entrapment ?.
And how many people lost their jobs or were prosecuted as a result of the Church Committee report?
That’s right, kids.
No one.
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Deep Throat almost went to prison.
And Bill Ayers boasts of being guilty as sin yet free as a bird.
“Deep Throat almost went to prison.”
Almost.
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The FIB wasn’t even trying to entrap jihadists when the FIB got a couple to storm the “draw Mohammed” contest in Irving Texas. They merely were following orders and observing the results.
Nixon and others made appearls on his behalf.
Amazing how those pallets of bricks "just delivered themselves"...
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