Is entrapment a fair strategy for law enforcement?
Two Views of Terror Suspects: Die-Hards or Dupes
Videotapes of the seven men arrested in Miami did not provide evidence that they had any ties to Al Qaeda.
Is being led to commit illegal acts by law enforcement mean one is intrinsically criminal, or just easily led? The more we hear about this gang of misfits, the more suspicious we are that, left alone, no acts of terrorism would have been perpetrated. The FBI gave them an oath to swear, encouraged them to purchase weapons, and probably encouraged them to read from the Koran (they originally seemed to be more Christian than Muslim). I remember reading in the 80s of a DEA bust where the arrestee bought his materials directly from the DEA, called them 50-100 times asking for advice, and then once he finally made some MDMA (or meth, cannot remember), the DEA came swooping in and arrested the dupe.
Does anyone else remember COINTELPRO
The FBI frequently installed undercover agents into whatever movements they deemed 'of interest', and these undercover agents were often the members who were advocating violence.
Tags: DEA, /FBI, /subversion, /terrorism
I didn't live here at the time. In Rio de Janeiro we would get a buzz on the events in the USA. Ironically, there was guerillaa going on we never heard of; not until much later, sometime in the eighties. The political police were eassy to identify: their watches, permanent press shirts and pants, short hair cuts, always nosing around in pairs. That era was one of either going hippie or freedom fighter underground.
What I still find quite remarkable is the need the US shows to wash its dirty laundry in public. I would get it if the USA were a Catholic country. It isn't but always expiates mea culpa mea culpa, mea maxima culpa :P