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The Heritage Foundation tracks this: https://www.heritage.org/terrorism/report/40-terror-plots-foiled-911-combating-complacency-the-long-war-terror https://www.

by kodah 4y ago

The Heritage Foundation tracks this: https://www.heritage.org/terrorism/report/40-terror-plots-foiled-911-combating-complacency-the-long-war-terror https://www.heritage.org/terrorism/report/40-terror-plots-fo... As of 2011, the number was 40.

mbesto 4y ago
> As of 2011 From 2001 until 2011. Where is the number now? Also those are all public...where are the ones the CIA knows about?
mbesto 4y ago
> As of 2011, the number was 40. Is that high? Low? How many is that versus successful terrorist attacks?
- nl 4y ago
  4 per year seems relatively high to me. They aren't minor plans either - they include carbombings, bombing buildings, targeted assassinations. There is one where someone was sending money to al-Qaeda in Kashmir. That seems the least serious (as in it wasn't a planned attack on US soil).
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Spooky23 4y ago
The one in Albany, NY was a joke. The “informant” was a questionable character whose long string of misdeeds, enabled by mysterious good fortune, culminated in the deaths of 20 people. Read this and contemplate using the Heritage Foundation as a source of truth in the future. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/limo-crash-ny-fbi-informant.html https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/limo-crash-ny-fbi-in...
- kodah 4y ago
  I'm not a big fan of the Heritage Foundation, but nobody else tracks this statistic. On top that, it's better than they put this information in the clear, if journalists choose to track this in the future they at least have a list someone has been auditing. Lastly, instead of trying to find another source you chose to lecture me on mine, not knowing that there are no other sources. Maybe pack your high and mighty attitude up and put on your thinking cap next time.
  - Spooky23 4y ago
    You can find that stuff in the DOJ pressroom. There’s no way the security authorities are going to reveal sources and methods for actual plots. My beef with the Heritage foundation is they present this as clear cut factual evidence while any thinking person, including federal judges overseeing the cases, is almost compelled to call out the nonsensical nature of the cases. You’re not going to get any type of accounting for this stuff for 20-30 years when the decision makers are dead or retired and actual information gets declassified.
- jessaustin 4y ago
  Wow FBI is almost as terrible for Americans as CIA is for everyone else.

by kodah 4y ago

mbesto 4y ago

> As of 2011 From 2001 until 2011. Where is the number now? Also those are all public...where are the ones the CIA knows about?

mbesto 4y ago

> As of 2011, the number was 40. Is that high? Low? How many is that versus successful terrorist attacks?

nl 4y ago
4 per year seems relatively high to me. They aren't minor plans either - they include carbombings, bombing buildings, targeted assassinations. There is one where someone was sending money to al-Qaeda in Kashmir. That seems the least serious (as in it wasn't a planned attack on US soil).
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Spooky23 4y ago

The one in Albany, NY was a joke. The “informant” was a questionable character whose long string of misdeeds, enabled by mysterious good fortune, culminated in the deaths of 20 people. Read this and contemplate using the Heritage Foundation as a source of truth in the future. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/limo-crash-ny-fbi-informant.html https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/limo-crash-ny-fbi-in...

kodah 4y ago
I'm not a big fan of the Heritage Foundation, but nobody else tracks this statistic. On top that, it's better than they put this information in the clear, if journalists choose to track this in the future they at least have a list someone has been auditing. Lastly, instead of trying to find another source you chose to lecture me on mine, not knowing that there are no other sources. Maybe pack your high and mighty attitude up and put on your thinking cap next time.
- Spooky23 4y ago
  You can find that stuff in the DOJ pressroom. There’s no way the security authorities are going to reveal sources and methods for actual plots. My beef with the Heritage foundation is they present this as clear cut factual evidence while any thinking person, including federal judges overseeing the cases, is almost compelled to call out the nonsensical nature of the cases. You’re not going to get any type of accounting for this stuff for 20-30 years when the decision makers are dead or retired and actual information gets declassified.
jessaustin 4y ago
Wow FBI is almost as terrible for Americans as CIA is for everyone else.