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

[MrScorpio]

16. My initial point is that I thought that your OP was very one sided

As if that entire operation in Yemen was only for domestic consumption alone.

If you've now conceded the point that it's not, well that's all well and good.

However, I wanted to point out that the publicity of the OP, revealing that there was a CIA mole in Al Qaeda, could prove to be a very positive turn of events in our efforts to break a terrorist organization that's out to do us harm.

I have absolutely no sympathy for these people and I'm quite happy to see COINTELPRO tactics used on them. Personally, I think it's quite a breath of fresh air to have the CIA use those tactics on dangerous terrorists, rather than the labor organizations and human rights movements that they've infiltrated in the past.

At least they're doing the right thing for once.

One last thing, it was the FBI who was responsible for that Oregon agent provocateur OP and in other places. I've opposed that kind to shit by them since I've first read the book, The COINTELPRO PAPERS, over 20 years ago. The FBI does that shit strictly FOR publicity and to bolster their image to the public. Of course it was wrong for them to do that. I don't disagree with you on that point.

BUT, it's just I can tell the difference between the FBI CREATING "terrorists", or going after the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement and the CIA who are going after real Al Qaeda killers with a process that will disrupt their internal cohesiveness and diminish their ability to attack us again.

One does not equal the other.