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This installment is called Entrapment.

It's not uncommon at all these days for the FBI to be monitoring people's

social media accounts and surveilling and even investigating people who post things that are supportive of the Islamic State.

Trevor Aronson is a journalist who covers FBI counterterrorism, mass surveillance,

sting operations. In a recent piece for the intercept he wrote about the

case of a Michigan man who ended up in the FBI's crosshairs, a man named Kalil Abu

Rayon. The reason that the FBI targeted him was that he had retweeted a tweet that linked to a

propaganda video from the Islamic State. When the FBI decides to target someone like Khalil,

they'll send in an informant.

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