'Pitching' to Mohamed Mohamud: curve balls from the FBI
'The Christmas Tree Bomber' trial is under way and entrapment is the defense.
So far, entrapment has not been a successful defense in FBI counter terrorism stings but maybe this time we'll hear more about the facts of the case and the methods used by the FBI.
- How was it that the FBI came to view a troubled teenager as a candidate for a 'pitch'?
- What, exactly, was the pitch? The FBI says that it wasn't recorded.
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2013/01/portland_terrorism_trial_fbi_a.html
- The FBI provided money, transportation, bomb-making expertise (including the detonation of a practice bomb) and encouraged a troubled teenager to participate in a government-sponsored simulation of mass murder.
Is this law enforcement or is it a calculated act of security theater in which destroying a young man and scaring the hell out of people is portrayed as an act of 'Counter-Terrorism'? Inquiring minds want to know.
I do and I'll be following this trial closely.
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