The FBI Plot to Entrap Somali Youth

To bring serious charges against the youth, the government had to show that the youth were “predisposed” to do something. The FBI set up a sting operation to ensnare them. To assist with it, they engaged [a] 20-year-old [informant].

Kevin Gosztola: Undercover FBI Agent Tried to Get Activists to Send Money to PFLP, a US-Designated Terrorist Organization

By Kevin Gosztola  Dissenter, FireDogLake.org  February 28, 2014 Graphic made by activists targeted in FBI raids to raise awareness around their case. (from StopFBI.net) Alleged evidence the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) used to obtain search warrants for raids on the homes of antiwar and international solidarity activists in the midwestern United States were unsealed. The More

Glenn Greenwald> Ironies in American justice and political cheerleading

Ironies in American justice and political cheerleading BY GLENN GREENWALD  March 20, 2012     Salon.com     Includes video President Barack Obama speaks during a ‘Lawyers for Obama Luncheon’ fundraiser, Friday, March, 16, 2012, at the Palmer House Hotel in Chicago. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)  (Credit: AP)  (updated below) (1) A reader reminded me of this yesterday More

Twenty Examples of the Obama Administration Assault on Domestic Civil Liberties

Twenty Examples of the Obama Administration Assault on Domestic Civil Liberties Bill Quigley   December 1, 2011    CommonDreams.org The Obama administration has affirmed, continued and expanded almost all of the draconian domestic civil liberties intrusions pioneered under the Bush administration. Here are twenty examples of serious assaults on the domestic rights to freedom of speech, More

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