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Told ya

Earlier in the day, the FBI admitted that two people working for the agency planted the idea of blowing up government buildings, including and FBI office in Miami, with members of an alleged South Florida terror group known as the Liberty City 7. The testimony came during efforts by attorneys for the alleged terrorists to get their clients released from custody until their trial on terrorism charges.

Update: Jim Bovard:

“This is the same type of scam that occurred routinely during the FBI COINTELPRO operations of the 1960s and early 1970s.

Yet, despite the FBI’s long history of such shenanigans, the vast majority of television coverage of the arrest of the “terrorists” was craven - or perhaps beyond craven - treating the words of federal officials as the equivalent of the Word of God.

The Miami bust occurred at the same time that the New York Times revealed the massive warrantless surveillance of bank transactions.

I argued at that time that people should, at a minimum, be skeptical of the feds’ claims - both on the Miami case and on the financial spying.”

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