sting operation and in that sting operation working with undercover agents he plotted to bomb pioneer square during a christmas tree lighting ceremony and at his trial it came out that there were e-mails from within the f.b.i. that talked about how he was disaffected and like to smoke marijuana and that made him susceptible to their approach you know what the f.b.i. says in these cases is that they're getting people off the street who are dangerous but that e-mail certainly suggested that the f.b.i. wants to make cases remarkable more conversations of the great minds which over iran's. mission and free cretaceous priests nuns for charges free. range loose free. priests to tides priests old free blood cancer flooding video for your media projects a free media oh don dar t. dot com you. well back to conversations of the great minds i'm speaking to trevor aaronson just a good journalist and author of the new book the terror factory inside the f.b.i.'s manufactured war on terrorism so to get back to this trevor the cointelpro programs in the fifty's and sixty's we can. sort of danced around that

sting operation and in that sting operation working with undercover agents he plotted to bomb pioneer square during a christmas tree lighting ceremony and at his trial it came out that there were e-mails from within the f.b.i. that talked about how he was disaffected and like to smoke marijuana and that made him susceptible to their approach you know with the f.b.i. says in these cases is that they're getting people off the street who are dangerous but that e-mail certainly suggested that the f.b.i. wants to make cases remarkable more conversations of the great minds with trevor and. i think. let me let me we're going to we're going to let me ask you a question. here. is what we're going to the thing we have. to do here is this was about staying there again we're in a situation where b. and i don't want to talk about the surveillance we. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you. are welcome to the big picture. the same story doesn't make it news. he says

bomb in a back of a truck and in back of a van and mohammad has spotted out a parking spot near pioneer square as people in portland tell me it's hard to get a parking spot during the christmas tree lightening ceremony. low and behold that parking space is available. they park the car and he walks away and mohammad dials up on the cell phone to detonate the bomb and it doesn't go off and the guy said do it again. and he dials again and the fbi agents rush in and arrest him. it was portrayed in the media we later find out he didn't know how to build the bomb. the fbi built it for him. he didn't have any specific connections to terrorism. he was 19 at the time. he was a baby for the most part. at the same time, as we mentioned earlier in the middle of the sting operation he was about to be evicted and the fbi gave him $3,000 to pay the rent so it wouldn't become an issue. later it come out there was an e-mail from an fbi agent talked about how mohammad liked to smoke pot and he was a misfit. the e-mail said he's probably us susceptible for a pitch. the fbi not looking for someone that is dangero

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bomb in the back of a truck, back of a fan, and mohammad had plotted out a parking spot near pioneer square, which is people in portland tell me is incredibly hard to get a parking spot during the christmas tree lighting ceremony but lo and behold that parking spaces of able as mohammad pulls up in the van and they park the car and he walked away and mohammad dials up on a cell phone to detonate the bomb and it doesn't authentic isis do it again. he dials again and the fbi agents rush in and arresting. this was portrayed in the media as a dangerous plot that headfoil. later we find a mohammad did not build a bomb and the fbi build it for them. hit have any specific connections to terrorism. he was 19 at the time, the baby for the most part. and at the same time, as i mentioned earlier, in the middle of that operation he was about to be evicted and the fbi gave him $3000 to pay his rent so that we become a part of the issue. then later to come out that there's an enough from fbi agent talk about how mohammad like to smoke pot, he's kind of a misfit. the e-mail said something he is -- it was