Late last week, Attorney General Eric Holder declared America to be “at war” with “lone wolf” attackers. Impossibly immediately and convenient, the FBI has announced multiple arrests and multiple “plots” foiled by FBI informants, who typically seem to have done materially all of the plotting themselves before making the arrests.
The higher profile arrest came yesterday, when the FBI arrested a 20-year-old Cincinnati man, whose father described him as a “mama’s boy” who never left home. The man had a Twitter account under a fake name where he expressed support for ISIS, and the FBI claimed he was going to use pipe bombs to blow up the Capitol building.
Officials are eagerly presenting it as a plot that was “ready to go,” but his father presents him as an immature recluse, and classmates from high school certainly didn’t see him as ISIS, irrespective of him having some vague interest in philosophical anarchy.
The other “foiled” plot was three men from northwest Georgia who said anti-government things in a chat room, and were convinced by the FBI to come to Tennessee to get some phony explosives to blow up an Atlanta police station.
In both cases, as is so often the case with FBI “foiled” plots, it started with people saying something online, and then having FBI informants basically plan out the entire scheme for them, then try to coax them into agreeing to it, at least enough that they could be arrested.
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