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To: Les H who wrote (40629)	2/8/2024 11:26:28 AM
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Judge slams FBI sting tactics as she frees man jailed for ‘fictitious’ terror plot James Cromitie was among the ‘Newburgh Four’ ensnared by a government informant in 2010 Io Dodds Monday 22 January 2024 23:35 The last of four men ensnared in an infamous anti-terror sting operation will be released from prison after a US judge ruled that his crimes had been entirely manufactured by the FBI. James Cromitie, 58, was jailed in 2010 for conspiring to bomb a New York City synagogue and attack a military airbase at the instigation of a government informant. Critics said the FBI's conduct amounted to entrapment, championing the so-called "Newburgh Four" as symbols of authoritarian overreach in the wake of 9/11. Now the judge who originally put Cromitie behind bars has ordered that he be released after serving 15 years of his 25-year sentence while excoriating the government's conduct. "Nothing about the crimes of conviction was of defendants' own making," wrote US District Judge Colleen McMahon in a fiery opinion on Friday. "The FBI invented the conspiracy; identified the targets; manufactured the ordnance; federalised what would otherwise have been a state crime by driving three of the four men into Connecticut... and picked the day for the 'mission'." She described the FBI's informant, Shahed Hussain, as "most unsavoury" and "a villain", arguing that "the real lead conspirator was the United States". independent.co.uk Usually, the informant is here on visa violations and the FBI uses this to blackmail him into setting up his friends in a terrorism sting. The problem is that the counterterrorism force operates under a quota system where each agent has to have several informants under him. Each informant is going to be linked to potential suspects or prospects for the sting. There's pressure on both the agent and informants to manufacture terrorist plots. It's suspected that the Boston Marathon Bombing and the 911 WTC plots involved potential informants. In that case, the responsibility for tracking the suspects' activities falls on the agent to whom the informant is assigned.