schneier.com — "Terrorism is a real threat, and one that needs to be addressed by appropriate means. But allowing ourselves to be terrorized by wannabe terrorists and unrealistic plots -- and worse, allowing our essential freedoms to be lost by using them as an excuse -- is wrong."
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thuktunMay 26, 2009
FTA:"The JFK Airport plotters seem to have been egged on by an informant, a twice-convicted drug dealer. An FBI informant almost certainly pushed the Fort Dix plotters to do things they wouldn't have ordinarily done. The Miami gang's Sears Tower plot was suggested by an FBI undercover agent who infiltrated the group. And in 2003, it took an elaborate sting operation involving three countries to arrest an arms dealer for selling a surface-to-air missile to an ostensible Muslim extremist. Entrapment is a very real possibility in all of these cases."The rest of them stink of exaggeration. Jose Padilla was not actually prepared to detonate a dirty bomb in the United States, despite histrionic administration claims to the contrary. [...] And now it seems like the JFK mastermind was more talk than action, too."The most recent terrorist arrest sounds similar, as Bruce Schneier also notes.<a class="user" href="http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/05/this_weeks_terr.html">http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/05/this ...</a>