FBI Informants: Foiling Terror, or Entrapment?

In past decisions courts have ruled that government undercover "hooker" agents may entrap "johns" in prostitution cases

May undercover FBI agents assume the same authority to entrap would-be terrorists?

DEMOCRACYNOW Oct 6, 2010 | Prosecutors and defense attorneys made their final arguments this week in the trial of the Newburgh Four, a high-profile case that has made national headlines as a potent example of so-called "homegrown terror." The defense has argued that the defendants were entrapped by government agents and not predisposed to commit a terrorist crime. For several months, Democracy Now!’s Anjali Kamat and Jacquie Soohen of Big Noise Films traveled through Muslim communities in New York and New Jersey to track the Newburgh case and two others. In all three, Muslim men were arrested on terrorism charges. In all three, no terrorist crime was actually committed. And all three cases…

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