Download e-book for kindle: The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI's Maufactured War on by Trevor Aaronson

A groundbreaking paintings of investigative journalism, The Terror manufacturing unit: contained in the FBI's synthetic struggle on Terror exhibits how the FBI has, less than the guise of undertaking counterterrorism considering the fact that Sep 11, equipped a community of greater than fifteen thousand informants whose fundamental goal is to infiltrate Muslim groups to create and facilitate phony terrorist plots in order that the bureau can then declare victory within the battle on Terror.

An outgrowth of Trevor Aaronson's paintings as an investigative reporting fellow on the collage of California, Berkeley—which culminated in an award-winning conceal tale in Mother Jones magazine—The Terror Factory finds stunning information regarding the criminals, con males, and liars the FBI makes use of as paid informants, in addition to documenting the intense equipment the FBI makes use of to ensnare Muslims in terrorist plots—which are actually conceived and financed via the FBI.

The publication bargains remarkable aspect into how the FBI has reworked from a reactive legislations enforcement business enterprise to a proactive counterterrorism organization—including the tale of an accused assassin who grew to become one of many FBI's such a lot prolific terrorism informants—and how so-called terrorism experts and specialists have made fortunes through exaggerating the specter of Islamic terrorism within the United States.

Trevor Aaronson is affiliate director and co-founder of the Florida middle for Investigative Reporting, a nonprofit journalism association that produces reporting approximately Florida and Latin the USA. He used to be a 2010–11 investigative reporting fellow on the collage of California, Berkeley, the place his reporting in regards to the FBI's informants in US Muslim groups led to a Mother Jones conceal tale that gained the loo Jay College/Harry Frank Guggenheim 2012 Excellence in felony Justice Reporting Award.