Mother Jones Report Scrubs Facts of Terrorists’ Predisposition

IPT News
August 25, 2011

http://www.investigativeproject.org/3125/mother-jones-report-scrubs-facts-of-terrorists

Statistics from a joint study by Mother Jones and the University of California-Berkeley claim that 10 percent of defendants in federal terrorism cases since 9/11 were involved in a plot led by an “agent provocateur.”
But a closer examination of those cases exposes several as weak examples of terrorism “instigated” by the FBI.
The FBI has nearly tripled its use of informants since 9/11, the report says. That surge in the number of FBI informants, according to Mother Jones‘ Trevor Aaronson, is worrisome. “The FBI has built a massive network of spies to prevent another domestic attack,” a teaser atop Aaronson’s article “Informants,” which includes those statistics, reads.
“But are they busting terrorist plots-or leading them?”