FBI says it faked AP story to catch bomb suspect

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP-Excite

By GENE JOHNSON

SEATTLE (AP) — The FBI is confirming it faked an Associated Press story to catch a bomb threat suspect in 2007.

But it says it did not spoof a Seattle Times web page as part of the investigation.

Both news organizations have objected to the FBI's actions.

Police in suburban Lacey, near Olympia, sought the FBI's help as repeated bomb threats prompted a week of evacuations at Timberline High School in June 2007.

FULL story at link.


Read more: http://apnews.excite.com/article/20141028/us--fbi-fake_news_story-28c82fa500.html

[DeSwiss]

1. At the beginning......

...at the middle and at the end of each FBI story they print from now on, they should place the following disclaimer:

[center][font color=red]The Seattle Times takes no responsibility for the truthfulness of
this article as we know the FBI will lie whenever it suits them.[/center][/font]

[Earth_First]

2. Just this once?

I bet this happens more often than you'd want to believe...

[rocktivity]

5. The cops plant stories in the media all the time

and sometimes, they let the media in on it.

I remember a trial of an armored car robbery. The cops got a warrant for a phone tap, then gave the media false information about the robbery. They played the tapes in court, and you hear the suspects saying things like "Those idiot cops -- they said our getaway car was blue when it was really green!" Guilty on all counts, by the way.


rocktivity

[Fred Sanders]

3. Since most news these days are lies and distortions, what difference does it make?

At least the motives are good, unlike the mass corporate media.

[Demeter]

4. And what happened to the kid?

Why is that little detail not in this story? Isn't that the most important question of all? Doesn't that determine whether the FBI acted in good faith and within the law?

Did they get him into counselling, or waterboard him? Is he dead, in jail, in a psychiatric hospital, or a young productive citizen, husband, father?

Was this a clever solution to a real problem, or a clusterfuck?

[Android3.14]

6. Read the article

It looks like the FBI set up a fake Seattle Times site and sent the suspect the link to the fake article. It does not appear that the FBI placed a fake article on the actual news site.