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Zero for 40 at Predicting Attacks Why Do Media Still Take FBI Terror Warnings Seriously?
http://fair.org/home/zero-for-40-at-predicting-attacks-why-do-media-still-take-fbi-terror-warnings-seriously/On Monday, several mainstream media outlets repeated the latest press release by the FBI that country was under a new heightened terror alert from ISIL-inspired attacks leading up to the July 4th weekend. One of the more sensational outlets, CNN, led with the breathless warning on several of its cable programs, complete with a special report by The Leads Jim Sciutto in primetime:
The threat was given extra credence when former CIA directorand consultant at DC PR firm Beacon Global StrategiesMichael Morell went on CBS This Morning (6/29/15) and scared the ever-living bejesus out of everyone by saying he wouldnt be surprised if we were sitting [in the studio] next week discussing an attack on the US. The first piece of evidence Morell used to justify his apocalyptic posture, the 50 ISIS arrests, was accompanied by a scary map on the CBS jumbotron showing ISIS arrests all throughout the US:
But one key detail is missing from this graphic: None of these ISIS arrests involved any actual members of ISIS, only members of the FBIand their network of informantsposing as such. (The one exception being the man arrested in Arizona, who, while having no contact with ISIS, was also not prompted by the FBI.) So even if one thinks the threat of lone wolf attacks is a serious one, it cannot be said these are really ISIS arrests. Perhaps on some meta-level, it shows an increase of radicalization, but its impossible to distinguish between this and simply more aggressive sting operations by the FBI...MORE
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Zero for 40 at Predicting Attacks Why Do Media Still Take FBI Terror Warnings Seriously? (Original Post)
Demeter
Jul 2015
OP
But how can they keep their funding if they don't get results? Don't you get it......
marble falls
Jul 2015
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chillfactor
(7,584 posts)1. it is a matter of WHEN....
not IF......see if you are still on your high-horse when a devastating ISIS attack does occur in this country....
Demeter
(85,373 posts)2. Please get a grip on reality
imthevicar
(811 posts)6. Since they are funded by the CIA,
Wouldn't that be a false flag attack. Well let me tell something else I'm sick of fear! it's what's used to keep us running for their skirt! Piss on that!
marble falls
(57,275 posts)3. But how can they keep their funding if they don't get results? Don't you get it......
Just think: if there were some ISIS somewhere in the woodpile we'd be ready for them! You just gotta look at the bright side and keep those tax dollars pouring down the rat hole.
Man from Pickens
(1,713 posts)4. FBI has an excellent prediction record
when they originate a plot
which is most of the time
Fuddnik
(8,846 posts)5. We need to return to the color coded alerts!!
People just aren't getting scared enough! Unless they watch Faux Nooz.