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99th_Monkey

(19,326 posts) Tue May 8, 2012, 11:58 PM May 2012

Am I supposed to feel "safer" because a CIA informant's "terrorist plot was foiled" ? [View all]

This is even more absurd than the case in Portland OR, last New Years Eve when
a young man was basically entrapped into believing he was being assisted by real
terrorists to detonate a bomb that never really existed except as a random Radio
Shack hodgepodge of wires and batteries.

Here the supposed "terrorist perpetrator" was already ON THE CIA PAYROLL as an
informant, from the very get-go.

Please. How stupid to these people think the public is? These "you must be very
afraid of terrorists" bogus "plots" appear to me to be mostly smoke and mirrors,
and very transparent ones at that.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/08/al-qaeda-bomb-plot-bomber-cia-informant_n_1501340.html

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Am I supposed to feel "safer" because a CIA informant's "terrorist plot was foiled" ? [View all] 99th_Monkey May 2012 OP

The terrorists all belong to the US intelligence services. HiPointDem May 2012 #1

Thank you for saying the obvious, that very few will admit. ~nt 99th_Monkey May 2012 #3

been that way forever. can't think of any terrorist of the top of my head that *didn't* have HiPointDem May 2012 #5

It's absurd. CIA - we're fighting terrorism, even if we have to make it up." nt Old and In the Way May 2012 #2

That is a nice summation of the situation actually. ~nt 99th_Monkey May 2012 #14

Of course you're supposed to feel safer gratuitous May 2012 #4

Emmanuel Goldstein is dead Art_from_Ark May 2012 #8

you know the best way for us to stop terrorist plots? provis99 May 2012 #6

+DING DING DING!! We have a winner!!! ~nt 99th_Monkey May 2012 #13

It's not about you feeling safer, Arctic Dave May 2012 #7

There's one point that you're not getting. MrScorpio May 2012 #9

Your "point" has not been lost on me at all. 99th_Monkey May 2012 #10

What does OWS have to do with fighting Al Qaeda? MrScorpio May 2012 #11

I said nothing of the sort. 99th_Monkey May 2012 #12

My initial point is that I thought that your OP was very one sided MrScorpio May 2012 #16

I think we agree mostly, except for one thing 99th_Monkey May 2012 #17

that link doesn't say much about it treestar May 2012 #15

I agree totally 99th_Monkey May 2012 #18

The knowledge that there are still violent religious fanatics in the world makes me feel less safe. slackmaster May 2012 #19

Right... and if we keep bombing weddings and cannibalizing the constitution whatchamacallit May 2012 #21

Notice how about once a year... YellowRubberDuckie May 2012 #20

Election Season? n/t whatchamacallit May 2012 #23

No. At least once a year. YellowRubberDuckie May 2012 #24

It's just like the 2-minute hate in "1984". Odin2005 May 2012 #22