Informant enrollment manufactures the very terror cases the state claims to solve

Evidence

The FBI and major police departments still interact with Muslim groups by enrolling informants and employing them as agents provocateurs, creating cases that can then be successfully “solved.” Under the current incentives of the security regime, it is likely that the application of state Islamophobia will continue, with race being a continuing factor. — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 47

Categorization

• SEED: The fabricated-crisis mechanism — creating the crime to be seen solving it — is a strong comparative angle: an essay tracing ‘agent provocateur’ logic from the diamond-trade reputational policing (Milgrom, inverted) to counterterrorism, or as the psychological core of the frightened-subject who must produce the threat he fears.
• BMF: The agents provocateurs who manufacture the very case they’ll be credited with solving evokes the pyramiding-security thesis in 2001 or, more precisely, the engineered-crisis dynamics of Zamyatin’s We, where the State invents an enemy — the Mephi — to justify its own tightening control.
• XREF: connects to: Government informants originated the terrorist plans used to convict defendants — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 586; Government informants originated the violent plots used to convict defendants; FBI informants originate the terror plots they then expose and prosecute — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 598