From the NYT Magazine:

The Informant and the Filmmakers

A new documentary reveals the tangled role of paid sources in F.B.I. terrorism investigations. By MATTATHIAS SCHWARTZ

FEB. 19, 2016

A new documentary film “(T)Error” has interesting footage of an FBI agent provocateur who calls himself Saeed Torres trying to talk some loser convert to Islam in Pittsburgh into doing something illegal.

The focus of the article is on the danger of the government convicting somebody who isn’t much of a threat to commit terrorism. There’s another side of the coin, of course, but that goes unmentioned: the possibility of the government prodding somebody into actually committing terrorism. European history has a number of such incidents. (A Taki’s column I wrote in 2014 listed a number of atrocities in history that appear to have been either provoked by agents provocateur or were outright false flag operations.)

Nor does the article mention that the American establishment’s grand strategy of Invade the World / Invite the World inexorably leads to rationalizations for the Surveillance State at home. A policy of bombing fewer Muslim countries and letting fewer Muslim potential bombers in to live in America would allow America to safely employ fewer of these agents provocateur.