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Reality Check: Is the FBI making us safer breaking up terror plots?

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By Ben Swann - bio | email
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Headlines were made by the FBI just a few weeks ago when they thwarted an attempted terror attack on the New York Federal Reserve.

Tonight, Ben is investigating the part of these FBI stings you haven't heard about, how the arrests are made and whether we are really safer as a result.

This is a Reality Check you won't see anywhere else.

 

Sources:

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/08/fbi-terrorist-informants

http://articles.cnn.com/2004-08-28/us/ny.bombplot_1_subway-station-shahawar-matin-siraj-herald-square-station?_s=PM:US

http://www.ohio.com/news/break-news/5-men-charged-in-plot-to-blow-up-bridge-other-targets-discussed-1.304109

(http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/how-fbi-entrapment-is-inventing-terrorists-and-letting-bad-guys-off-the-hook-20120515#ixzz2AubEv5pJ)

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/05/newburgh_4_terr_2.php

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