The FBI is at it again, boasting about stopping another contrived terror plot of their own making. This time they nabbed a right-winger working with the Taliban which happen to be an FBI agent provocateur.
According to the FBI:
Federal agents arrested Matthew Aaron Llaneza, age 28, of San Jose, California, this morning after he allegedly attempted to detonate a vehicle-borne explosive device at a bank branch in Oakland.
Llaneza’s arrest was the culmination of an undercover operation during which he was closely monitored by the FBI’s South Bay Joint Terrorism Task Force. Unbeknownst to Llaneza, the explosive device that he allegedly attempted to use had been rendered inoperable by law enforcement and posed no threat to the public...
According to the affidavit filed in support of the criminal complaint, on November 30, 2012, Llaneza met with a man who led him to believe he was connected with the Taliban and the mujahidin in Afghanistan. In reality, this man was an undercover FBI agent.Mike Masnick of TechDirt sums up this story nicely:
The details are familiar: random guy with no actual connection to terrorists, and no actual way to build a connection with terrorists, is taken in by an FBI undercover agent who works with him to build a 'bomb' that was never a bomb. In other words, there was no plot. There was no bomb. There was just a bunch of undercover agents playing dressup.
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There are many ways to manufacture a criminal. Cultivate dissent, suggest a way to "get even", steer a witless dupe somewhere he could never go all by himself. It all sounds so labor intensive...
ReplyDeleteWouldn't it be a lot easier just to pass a few new laws?
I was taught in military school that entrapment was illegal. Don't know what happened with that.
DeleteWhy don`t they go to the Chicago or Detroit ghetto and do their G-man thing.
ReplyDelete*sigh* Your tax dollars at work.
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Thanks.
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