Informants have been paid more than £25million for snitching to police in the past five years.
Despite facing massive cuts and thousands of jobs being at threat, new figures show the overall spend by forces has only decreased by £1million a year since 2008.
Since 9/11, as Human Rights Watch and others have documented, the FBI has routinely used paid informants not to capture existing terrorists, but to cultivate them.
Read more . . .The known facts from this latest case seem to fit well within a now-familiar FBI pattern whereby the agency does not disrupt planned domestic terror attacks but rather creates them, then publicly praises itself for stopping its own plots.
Read more . . .As it turns out, only 12 months earlier, Australian security services ran a domestic terror drill next to the very same location at Martin Place. The drill included dozens of fully equipped Australian Defence Force counter terrorism soldiers, who carried out a”mock terror drill”.
Read more . . .Defenders of the recently passed National Defense Authorization Act, which declares the entire world to be a “battlefield” against terrorism and authorizes the U.S. military to detain indefinitely anyone suspected of being a terrorism supporter, have claimed that the White House will only use its new power carefully and with due process. Opponents note that the White House has never hesitated to use any new authority, no matter how outrageous, and that the trend of law enforcement and security agencies is to expand on powers granted, not to rein them in or limit them.
Read more . . .Op-Ed How not to catch a terrorist Elaborate, expensive sting operations by the FBI are based on the premise that true terrorists will take the bait. This is not the same thing as preventing an actual attack. Los Angeles Times, … Read more . . .
URL: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/18137343/the_fear_factory Rollingstone.com The Fear Factory The FBI now has more than 100 task forces devoted exclusively to fighting terrorism. But is the government manufacturing ghosts? GUY LAWSON Posted Feb 07, 2008 12:00 PM Click here to read a history … Read more . . .
Hunting terrorists using confidential informant reward programs – Legal Digest Douglas A. Kash The FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, April 2002 The criminal acts of September 11, 2001, resulted in changes to existing U.S. law, including rewards available to confidential informants … Read more . . .
ABC News: The Blotter FBI Proposes Building Network of U.S. Informants July 25, 2007 1:01 PM Justin Rood Reports: Fbiproposesbu_mn_2 The FBI is taking cues from the CIA to recruit thousands of covert informants in the United States as part … Read more . . .
Is Big Brother at your mosque? By ABDUSSALAM MOHAMED, Senior Staff Writer APRIL 2008 Southern California INFOCUS http://www.infocusnews.net/content/view/15942/135/ … Read more . . .
November 30, 2001 THE INFORMANTS: Immigrants Offered Incentives To Give Evidence on Terrorists By NEIL A. LEWIS Attorney General John Ashcroft today offered a deal to foreigners — if they provide useful evidence against terrorists, the administration will help them … Read more . . .
An FBI informant, a Syrian man named Elie Assad, told the defendants he was an al Qaeda representative who would help them acquire weapons, explosives and money for bombing the Sears Tower Tower in Chicago.
Read more . . .Manufactured Terrorism: FBI paid key terror informants $56,000 Tactic will outrage jurors, defense says http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=13749 Article posted Jul 26 2006, 10:43 PM The FBI paid almost $56,000 to two confidential informants who are key to the case against seven men … Read more . . .
http://cicentre.com/counterintelligenceacademy/course/362.htm The Centre for Counterintelligence and Security Studies Alexandria, Georgia TRAINING COURSES Informant Development to Fight the War on Terrorism: Jihadist Islamic Doctrine for Law Enforcement Officers An important seminar for Law Enforcement Officers to learn how to successfully identify, … Read more . . .
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Did informant’s actions aid Fort Dix plotters? Entrapment defense may be presented in court for alleged plot against U.S. Associated Press 10 May 2007 CHERRY HILL, N.J. – He railed against the United States, helped scout out military installations for … Read more . . .
Conspiracy of dunces Three would-be eco-terrorists were arrested in Auburn last January for plotting acts of sabotage for the Earth Liberation Front. But would there have been a conspiracy without the prodding of FBI infiltrator Anna? This article was published … Read more . . .
