{"id":2076,"date":"2009-05-24T10:41:10","date_gmt":"2009-05-24T16:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nachzen.net\/?p=2076"},"modified":"2009-05-24T10:41:10","modified_gmt":"2009-05-24T16:41:10","slug":"the-fbi-is-good-at-creating-terrorists-not-much-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/?p=2076","title":{"rendered":"The FBI is good at creating &#8220;terrorists&#8221;, not much else."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the NY synagogue &#8220;terrorist&#8221; plot hit the news, I said, &#8220;This sounds awfully familiar.&#8221;  It reminded of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisamericanlife.org\/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1088\">story<\/a> of Hemant Lakhani, a fellow the FBI hired to acquire an anti-aircraft missile for them, then sold him the very missile they asked him to acquire, and then arrested him for illegal arms dealing.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out the latest arrests <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/world\/140209\/fbi_blows_it%3A_supposed_terror_plot_against_ny_synagogues_is_bogus\/\">aren&#8217;t much different<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I feel a lot safer knowing the FBI is going out, convincing people to join an FBI-invented terrorist plot, then arresting them for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the NY synagogue &#8220;terrorist&#8221; plot hit the news, I said, &#8220;This sounds awfully familiar.&#8221; It reminded of the story of Hemant Lakhani, a fellow the FBI hired to acquire an anti-aircraft missile for them, then sold him the very missile they asked him to acquire, and then arrested him for illegal arms dealing. It&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonclassified-nonsense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2077,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076\/revisions\/2077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}