Pressure for counterterrorism results incentivizes manufactured plots

Evidence

Other reports have shown that the pressure on the FBI to produce results has often relied upon questionable use of informants and agents provocateurs to create flimsy plots that could be then broken up and paraded as investigative successes. — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 32

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The FBI manufactured terror plots to justify its counterterrorism spending — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 586