“Compelling,shocking,andgrittywithintrigue.“--PublishersWeekly(starredreview)“Arealeye-openerthatquestionshowwellthecountry’ssecurityisbeingprotected.“--Kirkus(starredreview)“Inananalysisoffivehundredterrorism-relatedcasesbroughtsinceSeptember11th,thejournalistTrevorAaronsonfoundthatnearlyhalfoftheminvolvedaconfidentialinformant.Insomecases,thethreatposedbythetargetwasremote.“--EvanOsnos,TheNewYorker“TheTerrorFactoryisawell-researchedandfast-pacedexpos矇ofthedubioustacticstheFBIhasusedintargetingMuslimAmericanswithstingoperationssince2001.“--MichaelGerman,ReasonAgroundbreakingworkofinvestigativejournalismintotheFBI’squestionablecounterterroismtactics,TheTerrorFactoryexposeshowtheBureaubuiltanetworkofmorethan15,000informantsafter9/11whoseprimarypurposewastoinfiltrateMuslimcommunitiestocreateandfacilitatephonyterroristplotssothattheBureaucouldthenclaimitwaswinningthewaronterror.ThistenthanniversaryeditionofTheTerrorFactoryfurtherupdatestheactivitiesoftheFBIoverthepastdecade,focusingontheJusticeDepartment’sprosecutionofhundredsofdefendantsoninternationalterrorismchargesthatemergedfromFBIstings.Inmanyofthesestings,informantsorundercoveragentsprovidedallthemoneyandweaponsfortheterroristplot,andsometimeseventheideas--raisingsignificantquestionsaboutwhetheranyofthesepeoplewouldhavecommittedcrimeswereitnotfortheFBI’sencouragement.ThisneweditionofthebookalsoexamineshowtheFBIisassigninginformantstoinfiltrateright-winggroups,inordertoexpandtheBureau’scounterrorismprogrambeyondMuslimAmericans.
