The Fear Factory

Posted by Jim Harper

Via Hit and Run, the article from the February 7 Rolling Stone that Ben Friedman blogged about recently is now online. “The Fear Factory” discusses multiple cases where the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Forces have brought cases against defendants who “posed little if any demonstrable threat to anyone or anything.” Crucially, the story illustrates how information about the JTTFs’ activities are shrouded behind claims of secrecy.

This is no way to do law enforcement - or to secure a free country.

Jim Harper • February 12, 2008 @ 1:59 pm
Filed under: Foreign Policy and National Security; Law and Civil Liberties

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