The FBI successfully thwarts its own Terrorist plot - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com

The FBI successfully thwarts its own Terrorist plot - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
The FBI is obviously quite pleased with itself over its arrest of a 19-year-old Somali-American, Mohamed Osman Mohamud, who -- with months of encouragement, support and money from the FBI's own undercover agents -- allegedly attempted to detonate a bomb at a crowded Christmas event in Portland, Oregon. Media accounts are almost uniformly trumpeting this event exactly as the FBI describes it.