12/2/22 Trevor Aaronson Gives a Window Into FBI Entrapment Schemes

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Scott Horton

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🗓️ 5 December 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Scott interviews journalist and author Trevor Aaronson about an article he recently published for the Intercept. Aaronson has been one of the best reporters exposing how the FBI uses paid informants to manipulate people into agreeing to carry out violent attacks and other crimes so the agency can swoop in and pretend it’s taking dangerous terrorists off the street. His Intercept article examines one such case from about a decade ago. Scott and Aaronson dig into what happened. They then shift to a broader discussion of FBI entrapment schemes against both right and left-wing dissidents as well as financial criminals. Last, they reflect on the current political environment to question if there will ever be accountability for the FBI. Discussed on the show: “The ‘Terrorist’, the Rapist, and Me” (The Intercept) “U.S. Government Quietly Declassifies Post-9/11 Interview With Bush and Cheney” (The Intercept) American ISIS Podcast Series Aaronson’s TED Talk The Terror Factory by Trevor Aaronson Trevor Aaronson is a contributing writer for The Intercept and executive director of the nonprofit Florida Center for Investigative Reporting. He is the author of The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI’s Manufactured War on Terrorism. Find him on Twitter @trevoraaronson. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; and Thc Hemp Spot. Get Scott’s interviews before anyone else! Subscribe to the Substack. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjYu5tZiG. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, y'all welcome to the Scott Horton's show.
0:02.0	I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute.
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0:14.8	editorial director of anti-war.com.
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0:39.1	archive is also available at YouTube. YouTube. Aronson. You know years ago he wrote this piece for Mother Jones called the Terror Factory that later became a book and it's all about something that we'd already been writing about.
1:00.0	I've been blogging about at anti-war.com for a while which was all these entrapment cases
1:04.4	against basically big talking idiots set up by the FBI and paraded on TV as props in the
1:11.0	terror war and there's just so many of them but this one is great
1:16.2	it's new at the intercept it's called the terrorist the rapist and me a little bit of a personal tie into this entrapment case unusually here.
1:30.1	Very interesting. Welcome back to the show, how you doing, Trevor?
1:34.0	Hey, yeah, I'm great, thanks for having me, Scott.
1:35.8	Not that you were in on it or whatever,
1:37.1	it's after the fact, but yeah.
1:39.0	Good to talk to you, Jimin.
1:40.5	And great stuff as always of course here.
1:43.0	So we're talking, this is Washington State here, Seattle, FBI setup job.
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