Questions about entrapment have dogged counter-terrorism cases for some time, most recently in the case of the Oregon man charged with trying to blow up a Christmas-tree lighting ceremony. Now, from The Washington Post, comes the story of Craig Monteilh, a self-proclaimed FBI informant who was so aggressive in his quest to find potential terrorists at a California mosque that the community got a restraining order against him.The fallout so far includes the unraveling of one terror case, the fraying of FBI-Muslim relations in California, and a lawsuit brought against the FBI by Monteilh, who says the agency conspired to have him arrested.
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