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...entire situation was concocted by the government. The warehouse was paid for by the FBI, and the defendants moved their operations there at the suggestion of an undercover informant who was also paid by the FBI. The swearing-in ceremony was led by the informant - who at another point also suggested a plan to bomb FBI offices in Miami. "The case was written, produced and directed by the FBI," defense attorney Albert Levin said in his closing arguments...
...Since 9/11, the FBI has begun using legions of Muslim or Arabic informants in hopes of rooting out radicals before they strike. The main informant in this case was a Middle Eastern man named Elie Assad. He had worked for the FBI for years before he approached Batiste, posing as an al-Qaeda operative named "Brother Mohammad." He earned about $80,000 for his services...
...would be better, of course, if undercover informants were trained FBI agents, instead of sometimes unsavory characters with perverse incentives. "With informants motivated by money, it's simple," says Dennis Fitzgerald, an expert on informants and a former police officer in Liberty City. "No case means no money - or at least less money...
...this point, the FBI and police departments have nowhere near enough people who could convincingly work undercover in terrorism cases. "The number of undercover agents is minuscule; the number of confidential sources is much larger," says Art Cummings, deputy assistant director of counterterrorism at the FBI...
...Still, the FBI is only doing what we have asked it to do. If we want to arrest people before they act simply because they have the potential to do something bad, then this is what we get. The FBI is shutting down groups of extremists before they can do any permanent damage...