Undercover informants generate the very terrorism cases they then help 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.” — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 47

Categorization

• CANDY: One-liner that captures the circular logic of manufactured terrorism cases — the provocation-as-solution paradox.
• XREF: connects to: Government informants originated the terrorist plans used to convict defendants — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 586; FBI informants originate the terror plots they then expose and prosecute — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 598