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mk · 3601 days ago · link · · parent · post: Latest FBI Claim of disrupted terror plot deserves much scrutiny and skepticism
When I heard this story, that's what I suspected it was: a plot conceived by the FBI to entrap someone on the fringe. I have very little faith in these efforts. I once learned from an Air Marshal that it was typical for his colleagues to fabricate suspicious observations so that they could fill reports and demonstrate that they were doing there job. An expensive security apparatus needs to be justified, especially when it fails to stop the real thing. We'd be better off spending these resources treating the causes of these attacks rather than pretending that we can stop the attacks themselves. Go Pierre Omidyar.