Most would-be US Terrorists Wouldn’t have Committed a Crime without FBI Entrapment

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http://www.juancole.com/2014/07/terrorists-committed-entrapment.html

Most would-be US Terrorists Wouldn’t have Committed a Crime without FBI Entrapment
By Juan Cole | Jul. 22, 2014

Human Rights Watch

(Washington, DC) –The US Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have targeted American Muslims in abusive counterterrorism “sting operations” based on religious and ethnic identity, Human Rights Watch and Columbia Law School’s Human Rights Institute said in a report released today. Many of the more than 500 terrorism-related cases prosecuted in US federal courts since September 11, 2001, have alienated the very communities that can help prevent terrorist crimes.

The 214-page report, “Illusion of Justice: Human Rights Abuses in US Terrorism Prosecutions,” examines 27 federal terrorism cases from initiation of the investigations to sentencing and post-conviction conditions of confinement. It documents the significant human cost of certain counterterrorism practices, such as overly aggressive sting operations and unnecessarily restrictive conditions of confinement.

“Americans have been told that their government is keeping them safe by preventing and prosecuting terrorism inside the US,” said Andrea Prasow, deputy Washington director at Human Rights Watch and one of the authors of the report. “But take a closer look and you realize that many of these people would never have committed a crime if not for law enforcement encouraging, pressuring, and sometimes paying them to commit terrorist acts.”

Many prosecutions have properly targeted individuals engaged in planning or financing terror attacks, the groups found. But many others have targeted people who do not appear to have been involved in terrorist plotting or financing at the time the government began to investigate them. And many of the cases involve due process violations and abusive conditions of confinement that have resulted in excessively long prison sentences

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1. Vanity set-ups

I agree absolutely, but doesn't it make the FBI look good to those who don't look too deep into it?

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2. Duh

They entrapped idiots. And that was all they caught. They won't quit targeting Muslims. And they refuse to consider these John Birch, Teaparty, right wing, neonazi, survivalist, white supremacy, skinhead, Jack booted, KKK, thugs a problem.

I can see it. I'm no trained analyst. Willfully blind is all I can conclude.