That "terrorist cell" in Miami? I wrote on
June 24:
News reports of the incident all refer to how "the group had been infiltrated by a government informant." "Informant" is the media's word. I'm giving even odds that the correct term is agent provocateur, and that the first one to mention the words "Sears Tower" or "ammonium nitrate" was he.
And,
whaddya know?
Earlier in the day [during a bail hearing], the FBI admitted that two people working for the agency planted the idea of blowing up government buildings, including an FBI office in Miami, with members of an alleged South Florida terror group known as the Liberty City 7.
That information, incidentally, comes from local TV coverage of the bail hearing.
Reuters and
AP both use language like "their attorneys said the defendants were manipulated by paid FBI informants," without giving the reader a clue that the FBI had admitted as much.
Special bonus: Political Humor of the Day
In Nicaragua, one of the Presidential candidates, ex-Sandinista Herty Lewites, has just died of a heart attack, opening the possibility that ex-President Daniel Ortega will win the election, much to the consternation of the United States. Michael Shifter, a Nicaragua expert at the Inter-American Dialogue think tank in Washington, had this to say (I'll add emphasis to the punch line of the joke):
"An Ortega win at the ballot box in November would be a humiliating setback for the Bush administration. Unlike in other Latin American elections, where Washington has shown admirable neutrality, in Nicaragua it has not concealed its intense desire to keep Ortega from returning to power."
Hahahahahahaha.
Reprinted from Left I on the News
