"Hundreds of piglets are on the loose in Ohio after a trailer carrying them overturned... Police, firefighters, local parks and recreation officers and farmers will all drafted in to help rescue the tiny piglets, forming a human chain to pass them across the highway." | The Daily Bell - Hungry FBI Creating Fake Terrorists: "These operations, which are usually led by an informant, provide the means and opportunity, and sometimes even the idea, for mentally ill and economically desperate people to become what we now term terrorists." | The FBI is terrified of encryption | Even protesting the Keystone XL pipeline could land you on an FBI watch list - PRI | FBI Misuse of Patriot Act Authority. “Anyone can be Spied on ...by Stephen Lendman | Just say 'no' to FBI spying on Americans - Minneapolis Star Tribune - | U.S. response to terrorism is weakened by lapses in communication: ""The biggest impediment," the commission warned, "is the human or systemic resistance to sharing information." Intelligence "should be processed, turned into reports and distributed according to the same quality standards, whether it is collected in Pakistan or in Texas." In response to 9/11, officials created Joint Terrorism Task Forces around the country, where federal, county and city police work together to gather, analyze and act on intelligence." - FBI News Review
Counter-terrorism is supposed to let us live without fear. Instead, it's creating more of it How many ‘terrorism plots’ initiated by FBI informants will the agency interrupt before Congress finally performs some oversight? http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/26/fbi-surveillance-counterterrorism-entrapment-terror-documentary-sundance fbi obama The FBI is a less impressive the closer you look. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images Lyric R Cabral and David Felix Sutcliffe for Creative Time Reports Lyric R Cabral and David Felix Sutcliffe's film, (T)ERROR, is currently screening at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. Monday 26 January 2015 07.52 EST Last modified on Tuesday 27 January 2015 12.42 EST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Share on LinkedIn Share on Google+ Shares 2,117 Comments 149 People think that catching terrorists is just a matter of finding them – but, just as often, terrorists are created by the people doing the chase.