People seem to have a hard time wrapping their brain around this idea, but this story makes it simple: the government chooses to be involved with bad guys at a number of levels
- surveillance
- plant an informant in a group
- have your plant incite the group to do something stupid so you can catch them.
- have your plant incite the group to do something stupid and DON'T catch them if it serves a purpose
- the group itself may be government run and do bad things to put stink on an ideological opponent as was done with Gladio in Europe and various acts of violence blamed on commies in Latin America. In the latter case, one of our intelligence agents admitted as much in a declassified wire to his boss.
This cloak and dagger shit is annoying. Like the righties, I wish that the good guys wore white hats and the bad guys wore black (or vice versa), but we ignore this kind of shit at our peril, especially when the Bushies are itching for an excuse to attack Iran, and way back when Cheney's orders to draw up plans to attack Iran were given to the air force, he said it would be in response to a terrorist attack.
http://www.amconmag.com/2005a/2005_08_01/article3.html Neo-Nazi rally was organized by FBI informantHenry Pierson Curtis | Sentinel Staff Writer
Posted February 15, 2007
A paid FBI informant was the man behind a neo-Nazi march through the streets of Parramore that stirred up anxiety in Orlando's black community and fears of racial unrest that triggered a major police mobilization.
That revelation came Wednesday in an unrelated federal court hearing and has prompted outrage from black leaders, some of whom demanded an investigation into whether the February 2006 march was, itself, an event staged by law-enforcement agencies.
The FBI would not comment on what it knew about the involvement of its informant, 39-year-old David Gletty of Orlando, in the neo-Nazi event. In court Wednesday, an FBI agent said the bureau has paid its informant at least $20,000 during the past two years.
"Wow," Gletty said when reached by phone late Wednesday. "It is what it is. You were there in court. I can't really go into any detail now."
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