[Infowarrior] - FBI Insisted That 'Terrorist' Guy It Arrested Last Week Was No Threat At All

[Richard Forno]

One Year Ago, FBI Insisted That 'Terrorist' Guy It Arrested Last Week Was No Threat At All

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150410/18091630614/one-year-ago-fbi-insisted-that-terrorist-guy-it-arrested-last-week-was-no-threat-all.shtml

Last week, we wrote about the FBI arresting John Booker, who was involved in yet another of the FBI's own plots. At the beginning of our post (and the criminal complaint) against Booker, we noted how a year ago Booker had tried to join the army, and had then been denied after posting stuff to his Facebook page about how he was going to "wage jihad" and planned to die. It was noted that the FBI visited him at that time, and we found it odd that if he was such a  threat, why wasn't he arrested then. Instead, it appears that months later, the FBI got together and concocted a ridiculous plot for Booker to join, in which the FBI itself did all the planning. 

What he hadn't realized was that when the incident happened last year with Booker and his Facebook page, there was actually news coverage about it, with the FBI actually saying that they had investigated and Booker was no threat at all:

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It appears that Booker only became a real threat... once two FBI informants showed up and created the plot for him.


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