Musleh case reminds me of Mohamud, where we learned years of stuff prior to admitted CI not included in complaint @Susan_Hennessey
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Replying to @emptywheel
Instinct’s always been FBI overreaching. Still skeptical, but viewed in light of trying to distinguish real threat v mere talk..
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providing controlled opportunity for crime seems more like reasonable tool.
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some FBI schemes go beyond mere "opportunity for crime", applying coercion and $$$ incentive. Those are truble
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I'm not wholesale endorsing—very problematic elements—but do struggle to see effective/realistic alternatives.
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I never saw criticism of tactic to be wholesale rejection, either. If done properly, hard to see objection.
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Given OR that may be changing (have to review UT complaint) but CIs w/right wing extremists tends to work
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Perhaps FBI better at navigating those subcultures, more nuanced approach to discerning "true" extreamism.
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But there, too, trigger higher bc his extremist comms would not come under same scrutiny as intl comms. @Susan_Hennessey
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