Discussion for article #229922
The agent’s most difficult task was gaining enough weight to pass as an AP reporter.
1 Like
this is a tactic to take down a fucking 15yo… hell, no wonder they’ve shredded the constitution in their endless search for the oogabooga terrorists amongst us…
What makes this b.s. artist think we have any respect for the FBI anymore anyhow? Did they prosecute Cliven Bundy after they aimed loaded assault rifles at the BLM and others? How many false flag operations have they conducted now that they claimed were “terrorist” plans? This was recently published. I could go on. This two-bit loser is no good, nor is his agency anymore.
Don’t worry, “news” industry…you’re rapidly losing so much trust across the board that misappropriating your names as a means of gaining suspect confidence will not be at all useful going forward.
3 Likes
These protests by the AP will do nothing to prevent this in the future. It worked so they’ll do it again.
2 Likes
“but it would still be lawful and, in a rare case, appropriate”
Good to see that sometimes - sometimes - appropriateness plays a part.
1 Like
Hell, most so-called reporters anymore just impersonate real reporters anyway, so what’s the problem? And don’t even get me started with bloggers.
1 Like
Excuse me: the fucking 15-year old was threatening to blow up the school. Perhaps it would have been more sensitive to wait until he actually killed someone, but then what?
I really don’t get the angst about this. “Appropriating the name of the AP”? Doesn’t any sting operation involve some kind of subterfuge? The only reason the AP is ballistic about this – “our good name is now in jeopardy” – is because a reporter learned of the sting and wrote about it.
Assuming that all of these stings are about balance, asking a narcissist to click on a “story” ostensibly about him in order to prevent him from blowing up a school and its kids seems like a reasonable approach.
2 Likes
Exactly. The AP lost most of its credibility during the lastest Bush presidency anyway, when they helped by being stenographers for Addington and company.
I can understand why the AP would be upset. But if the FBI instead just pretended to be a fake news organization, would that be unethical? These days they could easily set up a fake news blog and set the same trap.
If someone is dumb enough to click on a link they got from an unsolicited email it won’t take much to fool them anyhow.
[quote=“enon, post:3, topic:12870, full:true”]
this is a tactic to take down a fucking 15yo… hell, no wonder they’ve shredded the constitution in their endless search for the oogabooga terrorists amongst us…
[/quote] Just be sure to give credit where it’s due. 2007 was the destructive era of the OTHER GUY.
Yeah, I must admit that – and this was under W, so I’m not being blinded by partisanship here – sending an email with a link to a bogus draft of an “article” about the incident (not a final, nothing anyone but the target will see) asking the target to check it for accuracy strikes me as a pretty clever but quite standard bit of police work. And that’s all it was; to read the AP story you’d think it had been a published story by an agent misrepresenting himself to the public in general, which is what I thought it was until I read Comey’s letter in the Times. Once I did, this became just one more episode adding to my impression of the AP as an organization that thinks far more highly of itself than is warranted by its actual performance.
1 Like
I don’t give a damn how old a person making bomb threats is.
“Shred the Constitution”? Funny. Comey was stellar in fighting Ashcroft and Bush. The guy was a great selection for FBI Director.
1 Like
Jeez, you’d think Edward Snowden was having a positive effect. Don’t worry, when Jebbie gets elected the AP will be as emasculated as ever.