The FBI’s conduct with Orlando massacre shooter Omar Mateen is under fire, even though it’s part of a decades-long strategy to provoke, lure, and entrap potential “terrorists.”
The tactic, which was frequently used in the 1960s as part of J Edgar Hoover’s COINTELPRO program, infiltrated groups such as the Black Panther Party and peace activists such as Martin Luther King Jr.
Mateen, like many ”lone wolves” before him, was under investigation by the FBI on two separate occasions before he carried out the attack on the Pulse nightclub and killed 49 people.
New evidence reveals the federal agency attempted to entrap Mateen with confidential informants (CIs) during the course of its pre-crime investigation, a common technique that critics believe creates terrorists rather than prevents attacks.
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