When the news of the JFK plotters came out, I commented: Look for the FBI informant/instigator. Today we see in the Washington Post and other papers:
The ringleader believed the informant "had been sent by Allah to be the one" to pull off the bombing, according to a federal complaint.
Once again we have an FBI informant providing critical support to a fringe group of nutcases with little apparent capacity to do much harm. The informer/instigator drove forward a plot that was then "foiled" by the FBI.
Many others have noted the similarity to the Vegetarians of Mass Destruction in Miami last year who were whipped into shape as a quasi-threat by their FBI informant/instigator prior to their much hyped arrest.
Washington Post: But court records released since then suggest that what Gonzales described as a "deadly plot" was virtually the pipe dream of a few men with almost no ability to pull it off on their own. The suspects have raised questions in court about the FBI informants' role in keeping the plan alive.
Excuse my cynicism, but I wonder how many nutcases are being groomed to scare America in the run up to the 2008 elections? Does the FBI have a pipeline of these plots in progress that it will dole out whenever the GOP dips in the polls?
Is busting the plots coordinated by Rove and Gonzales whenever the media is spending too much time looking at Bush administration crimes? Now those are some e-mails I'd like to see published!