Shows featuring Trevor Aaronson

  • Did FBI Focus on Controversial Stings Distract from Pursuit of Tsarnaev Before Boston Attacks?

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    Questions are mounting over whether U.S. security officials failed to heed warnings that could have foiled the bombing of the Boston Marathon. After news emerged that the older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was on the intelligence radar in the United States. As a result, there have been growing calls for federal agencies to re-examine...
    April 26, 2013 | Story
  • "Terrorists for the FBI:" How the FBI Uses Informants to Surveil and Entrap Americans

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    The FBI has built a massive network of spies to prevent another domestic terrorist attack. But are they busting plots—or leading them? That’s the question addressed by a year-long investigation in Mother Jones magazine. It suggests FBI informants are not only busting terrorist plots, they are actually leading them so the...
    August 25, 2011 | Story