Trevor Aaronson

The Terror Factory: Tenth Anniversary Edition Trevor Aaronson

A groundbreaking work
of investigative journalism, The Terror Factory was the first book
to expose how the FBI, under the guise of engaging in
counterterrorism, built a network of more than 15,000 informants after 9/11 whose
primary purpose was to infiltrate Muslim communities to create and facilitate
phony terrorist plots so that the Bureau could then claim it was winning the
war on terror.




This tenth anniversary
edition of The Terror Factory will focus on the activities of the FBI over the past decade,
including how the Justice Department has prosecuted hundreds
of defendants on
international terrorism charges that emerged from FBI stings. In many of these
stings, the informants or undercover agents provided all the money and weapons
for the terrorist plots, and sometimes even the ideas -- raising significant
questions about whether any of these people would have committed the crimes
were it not for the FBI's encouragement. The book will also
examine how the FBI is assigning
informants to infiltrate right-wing groups,
and how the calls for new right-wing anti-terrorism laws would give the Bureau even more
power.