By the now, it's maddeningly familiar. A scary terrorist plot is announced. Then it's revealed that the suspects are a hapless bunch of ne'er-do-wells or run-of-the-mill thugs without the slightest connection to any terrorists at all, never mind to Al Qaeda. Finally, the last piece of the puzzle: the entire plot is revealed to have been cooked up by a scummy government agent-provocateur.
I've seen this movie before.
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A former FBI agent who interrogated suspected terrorists told a Senate panel Wednesday that no actionable intelligence was gained from “enhanced interrogations” such as waterboarding.
“I strongly believe that it is a mistake to use what has become known as enhanced interrogation techniques,” said Ali Soufan who worked for the FBI from 1997 to 2005. “These techniques, from an operational perspective, are slow, ineffective, unreliable, and harmed our efforts to defeat al Qaeda.”
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While real threats undoubtedly exist, what the Bush administration promotes as a nationwide pattern of terrorist activities is largely the result of its own policies in the age of lawfare. Last May, the FBI arrested the "Fort Dix Six," charging the men with conspiring to attack the New Jersey military base. The supposed terror cell was discovered when a clerk at Circuit City was asked to transfer to DVD a video of the men allegedly training for jihad in the Pocono Mountains and shouting, "Allahu Akbar!" [God is great!] As in other cases, the FBI itself proved to be the mastermind behind the plot. The men —who included three roofers, a taxi driver and a former delivery boy for Super Mario's Pizza — had little money and no connections to real extremists. All were in their twenties and spent their weekends playing paintball. Under the guidance of two informants for the JTTF, the men planned an assault on Fort Dix using rocket-propelled grenades and AK-47s —none of which actually existed.
Six-page story in Rolling Stone
Zie ook Donkerdoorns commentaar op de zaak, in relatie tot onze eigen niet-terreurorganisatie " Hofstadgroep" , in de nieuwe Maandagmorgen Briefing
Dat blijkt uit de documenten die de Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) via een beroep op de Amerikaanse wet openbaarheid bestuur (Freedom of Information Act) in handen heeft gekregen.
Het systeem DCSNet (Digital Collection System Network) geeft de FBI direct de mogelijkheid telefooncentrales op afstand af te luisteren. Daarbij gaat het niet alleen om moderne VoIP-systemen, maar ook om mobiele operators en traditionele telefooncentrales. Zodra iemand een nummer belt dat onder observatie staat, komt de informatie voor de FBI-agenten beschikbaar inclusief de locatie van de bellers.
