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Does the FBI read HN? I don't think they realize how much they're missing out from not reading this feedback and actually giving it a few seconds worth of conte

Does the FBI read HN? I don't think they realize how much they're missing out from not reading this feedback and actually giving it a few seconds worth of contemplation =/.

Animats 10y ago
There's been substantial criticism of the FBI's terrorist entrapment efforts. Too often, they find out about someone mouthing off about "Death to America", and gear up a sting operation to encourage them to commit some act for which they can be convicted.[1] Most of them are wannabes, not real threats. The FBI director once said of the group convicted of planning to below up the Willits Tower in Chicago that their plans were "aspirational, not operational". In the case of the “Newburgh Four,” a judge said the government “came up with the crime, provided the means, and removed all relevant obstacles,” and had, in the process, made a terrorist out of a man “whose buffoonery is positively Shakespearean in scope.” It's not entirely the FBI's fault. They're under heavy political pressure to stop every terrorist plot. Every time some nut actually does something, they get criticized for missing them. [1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/21/fbi-terrorism-stings_n_5606468.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/21/fbi-terrorism-sting...
akerro 10y ago
I don't know if they read HN, but I remember from some leaks that they read and comment on 4chan.
- whamlastxmas 10y ago
  Someone posted on 4chan claiming to be FBI, provided no proof, and only made predictions (some turned out wrong) and vague insights. Almost certainly not actually FBI, or at least certainly not anyone high up at FBI.
whamlastxmas 10y ago
They know most of what they're doing is bullshit. They don't care. Just hand a guy a cell phone and tell him to dial a number to blow up a building. He dials it, nothing happens, FBI arrests him, sends him to jail for life. Repeat dozens of times and claim you've stopped dozens of terrorist attacks. This is the FBI today.

Does the FBI read HN? I don't think they realize how much they're missing out from not reading this feedback and actually giving it a few seconds worth of contemplation =/.

Animats 10y ago

There's been substantial criticism of the FBI's terrorist entrapment efforts. Too often, they find out about someone mouthing off about "Death to America", and gear up a sting operation to encourage them to commit some act for which they can be convicted.[1] Most of them are wannabes, not real threats. The FBI director once said of the group convicted of planning to below up the Willits Tower in Chicago that their plans were "aspirational, not operational". In the case of the “Newburgh Four,” a judge said the government “came up with the crime, provided the means, and removed all relevant obstacles,” and had, in the process, made a terrorist out of a man “whose buffoonery is positively Shakespearean in scope.” It's not entirely the FBI's fault. They're under heavy political pressure to stop every terrorist plot. Every time some nut actually does something, they get criticized for missing them. [1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/21/fbi-terrorism-stings_n_5606468.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/21/fbi-terrorism-sting...

akerro 10y ago

I don't know if they read HN, but I remember from some leaks that they read and comment on 4chan.

whamlastxmas 10y ago
Someone posted on 4chan claiming to be FBI, provided no proof, and only made predictions (some turned out wrong) and vague insights. Almost certainly not actually FBI, or at least certainly not anyone high up at FBI.

whamlastxmas 10y ago

They know most of what they're doing is bullshit. They don't care. Just hand a guy a cell phone and tell him to dial a number to blow up a building. He dials it, nothing happens, FBI arrests him, sends him to jail for life. Repeat dozens of times and claim you've stopped dozens of terrorist attacks. This is the FBI today.