f.b.i. entrapment so the question remains when the f.b.i. foils its own terrorist plots are they preventing terrorism or they just creating

f.b.i. entrapment but the question remains when the f.b.i. files its own terror plots is this preventing terrorism or is this just creating security theater joining me now to dig through some of the seedy details in this case is steven webster senior editor for raw story the f.b.i. entrapment cases nothing new this is happened time and time again we've seen even it's backfired in a couple cases at a mosque where mosque senior officials actually reported in the agent provocateur to the police because he was very overzealous in his motives. so right now senior editor for all story ok. and it is an interesting case because so many cases across the country some could argue that nationwide we're spending an exponential amount of taxpayer dollars on weeding out these potential terrorists when really is there really a threat after all. it's a very interesting case and we'll get back to that later for a place dubbed the largest spy center in the world menwith hill and britain certainly carries an unassuming name but for almost three decades now the c

f.b.i. entrapment so the question remains when the f.b.i. foils its own terrorist plots are they preventing terrorism or they just creating security theater to for further join me in this case i was joined by steven webster senior editor for raw story he explained whether or not these sting operations are even necessary are they necessary among quite sure but i think the f.b.i. would argue that they are. it is your right to say that this is a pattern in their history throughout their history they often gotten close to the bad guys and let them believe they were going teria and the terrorists want only to pull lives can write the last moment and reveal that their former to running the show. is it's tough to say it with a broad brush it's right or not some drugs are you'd imagine more severe than others as who are these occupiers. well it's really about his guesses as to whether they would have gone through with doing that they would have had the means to carry it out with effort without the f.b.i. involvement i mean you see that the f.b.i. su

f.b.i. entrapment in terrorism is nothing new the agency currently has fifteen thousand undercover operatives in their ranks who get paid as much as one hundred thousand dollars per sign meant and at least half of the latest five hundred prosecutions related to terrorism have involved f.b.i. and treatment but the question remains when the f.b.i. files its own terror plot is it really preventing terrorism or is it just creating security theater to dig further in this case i was joined earlier by steven webster senior editor for raw story he explained whether or not these sting operations are even necessary are they necessary i'm not quite sure but i think you have to be i would argue that they are. you're right to say that this is a pattern in their history throughout their history off the gotten close to the bad guys and let them believe they were going to carry out the various plot only to pull lives could write the last moment and reveal that their former to grow it would show. it's it's tough to debate with a broad brush if it's right or not some threats are you about it more severe than o

f.b.i. entrapment and that's all just to name a few things here and here we're just talking federal abuses don't forget the oppressive laws enacted on the state level of this is why certain police departments like the n.y.p.d. you know. well things like stop and frisks that are racially motivated the monitoring of muslim communities based on the religion so for the sake of making making the state department's global human rights report more comprehensive i gotta say is you're welcome. now earlier today britain's supreme court upheld the decision to extradite wiki leaks founder julian assange to suite it for prosecutors want to question him about allegations of rape and sexual assault but it's not his lawyers have fourteen days to appeal this decision and a rather extraordinary turn of events now gets a little technical so pay attention one of the songes lawyers diana rose argued of the ruling was made by viewing the british extradition act through the lens of the vienna convention on the law of treaties and since the vienna convention interpretation was an argued by either side than the defense

f.b.i. has been doing entrapment for a lot of these terrorist cases and so it's likely that u.s. and saudi agents are in yemen right now encouraging these sort of attacks and al qaeda is really not a threat as the united states says it is. very briefly the u.s. is now moving a sanction people obstructing the political process in yemen why do you think washington is getting involved in yemen's internal affairs. well i believe that this is their attempt to try to save face they know that the international community is aghast at their terrible violations with the drone strikes in yemen and also they know that there there hasn't been any transition in yemen so they're trying to placate the yemenis who are in the streets to try to fight for a new government they're trying but you know the people on the streets the people in the region are not stupid they know america's tricks and they know what the reality on the ground is and so any is this this attempt to try to. encourage old yemenis leaders to abide by the agreements that they made by freezing their assets is just quite ridiculous

f.b.i. agent sold these folks according to the prosecution the c. four explosives orchestrated ok it's just i was involved in this for a long time i was trained to entrap another game very well f.b.i. informant turned whistleblower craig spent six years working for the agency he says as long as the u.s. remains a threat to washington and wall street cases like the cleveland five will become more common. but that is gold. now maybe three months later to be another one maybe six months later there be another one where now the occupy movement is really take it and no one to be around them so much because there may be some type of terrorist plan or plot. before the cleveland five came the new birth for a terrifying plot the f.b.i. claims to have boarded f.b.i. operatives provided the fake c four and actually showed them a fake stinger missile the four muslim suspects were arrested and charged with attempting to carry out terrorist attacks no direction by a foreign entity or real terrorist group instead direction came from an f.b.i. informant who monitored induced and facilitated the fabricated plot reportedly paid one hundred thousand dollars for his servi

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f.b.i. if they think that it's growing because of them as in the increasing number of people whom they fund set up hatch plots for entrap that shouldn't count as homegrown terrorism increasing but of course they've got a budget to justify and last but not least mueller informed them that an investigation to find out who leaked the so-called foiled plot in yemen set up by a double agent to the press is underway now this one particularly cracks me up doesn't crack me up because i think that it's funny that perhaps yes some future clandestine activity could be in jeopardy now that everyone knows that we have moles and pete it cracks me up because this is what happens when you fuel a culture where selective leaking is completely acceptable where you prosecute whistleblowers want to go after organizations like wiki leaks and yet have unnamed officials giving out classified information all the time when it suits someone's political purposes not to mention of course the continued acceptance acceptance and i spoke about the other day about our escalation of the shadow war in yemen that's collation that nobody really seems all t