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In reply to the discussion: Remember how FDR executed American Nazi sympathizers? [View all]leveymg
(36,418 posts)witting or not. He was at various times an agent provocateur, and a catch and release, who the US had in custody after 9/11 but let go, like a number of other key AQ figures who operated inside the US.
You probably don't know that, even though it was reported in the NY Times, WaPo, etc., because apparently you choose not to read closely enough to have formed an informed, independent opinion. Instead, you attack others on this board for their independence of thought using conventional homilies and nostrums about people who betray their country. Yet, you apparently don't even know how US intelligence operations work and the indispensable role of agents provocateur and catch and releases, until someone decides they've become dispensable.