Interview · moment 9 of 14
The FBI's Entrapment Playbook and Mass Shooters
from Live From The NY Comedy Festival (with Russ Baker) · #80
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4 minGuest
Russ describes the FBI's pattern of infiltrating and entrapping suspects (citing Whitey Bulger and the Boston bombing), then connects this to a string of mass shooters with suspicious military/intelligence ties, including the Texas church shooter, the Orlando shooter, and the Boston bombers' family connections.
- 33:38Tim on how the FBI always seems to have prior knowledge of terrorist attacks and wars, with operatives already embedded
- 33:48The FBI's core operation: sending infiltrators into radical mosques and posing online as minors to entrap people
- 34:13Boston Marathon bombing example—Russian intelligence had to tell the FBI who the suspects were, contradicting claims of ignorance
- 34:39Whitey Bulger case shows feds allowed an informant to commit murders for years to preserve intelligence access
- 35:29Church shooter outside San Antonio had military service and worked in Air Force intelligence despite a documented bad temper
- 35:58Tim catalogs mass shootings people forgot about, noting how many involve people with military or government connections
- 36:39Pulse nightclub shooter in Orlando worked for Wackenhut, a major government contracting firm
- 36:50Boston Marathon bombers' uncle married into a top CIA family, and their swim coach was special forces
- 37:13Military training in elite units produces skilled killers, and when this backfires the government has incentive to cover it up
- 37:25Government avoids admitting trained operatives on their payroll committed these acts to limit liability
- 37:35Tim asks audience who's uncomfortable with this line of questioning
FBIWhitey BulgerBoston bombingDonald TrumpWackenhutCIAMueller