How FBI 'counterterrorism' works

[Fifthfiend]

http://www.businessinsider.com/fbi-i...unities-2012-3

In the frenzied days following 9/11, the FBI and a newly formed Homeland Security launched a counter-terrorism effort that dropped scores of informants into neighborhoods throughout America.

It was a reasonable idea, seeing as how law enforcement missed the whole commercial pilot training for the Saudi terrorists in Florida, but as it turned out, there really wasn't much to report on.

With the programs in place, the informants on the ground, and the money being spent, the concern about justifying it all became a growing concern. Cases needed to be made, and as that need grew sharper, the list of Americans scooped up on terrorism charges has grown as unlikely, as it is long.

Communities, and former informants, are only now fighting back and voicing their concerns.

"The way the FBI conducts their operations, It is all about entrapment … I know the game, I know the dynamics of it," former FBI informant Craig Monteilh recently told the Guardian. "It's such a joke, a real joke. There is no real hunt. It's fixed."

With an FBI provided alias, Montheilh infiltrated an Orange County mosque and secretly recorded its members, providing what one federal transcript describes as "very, very valuable information" that proved "essential" to a federal prosecution.

Montheilh first made headlines in 2010, two years after his time as informant, when he sued the FBI for failing to erase a grand theft conviction he picked up on one of his undercover stints, and for nearly getting him killed by not giving him a new identity.

Monteilh told Paul Harris at the Guardian that the FBI even OK'd sex with Muslim women from the mosque, if it led to better intel. "They said, if it would enhance the intelligence, go ahead and have sex. So I did," Monteilh says.

Just as Monteilh slipped inside the Orange County mosque, FBI informant Shahed Hussain worked his way into a Newburgh, NY mosque, leading to what is now known as the Newburgh Four case. The Newburgh Four allegedly planned a fake terror attack on Jewish targets in the Bronx, reported Paul Harris in November.

There's only one problem according to Fordham Law professor Karen Greenberg.

"The target, the motive, the ideology and the plot were all led by the FBI," Greenberg, who specializes in studying the new FBI tactics, told Harris.

After 9/11 there were a handful of things that obviously should have been in place from the start and weren't because our law enforcement agencies were dickbreathing mouthheads but instead of doing those things and apologizing that they weren't done in the first place they instead decided to embark on a decades-long orgy of fuckstupid because they'd rather do that than ever, ever acknowledge what a bunch of fucking morons they were in the first place.

[Jagos]

Patriot Act - The FBI's dream come true.

[Thadius]

The FBI has officially forfeit all claims to the I in their name standing for 'Intelligence'.

Forever.

Hold on, let me check...yep, that was my faith in things that are meant to protect us going out the goddamn window. The fact that it was even there to begin with is astounding.

[Jagos]

You should look into the turf war that's started with the FBI and the NYPD.

It's irony that the NYPD seems to want to take over for the FBI in investigating Muslims.

[shiney]

Not sure which would be worse. Neither would be better though.