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Terror Factory, The : Inside the FBI's Manufactured War on Terrorism
Author(s): Trevor Aaronson (Author)
- Publisher: IG PUBLISHING
- Publication Date: 1 Jan. 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 274 pages
- ISBN-10: 1935439618
- ISBN-13: 9781935439615
Book Description
A groundbreaking work of investigative journalism, The Terror Factory shows how the FBI has – under the guise of engaging in counterterrorism since 9/11 – built a network of informants whose primary purpose is to infiltrate Muslim communities to create phony terrorist plots so the bureau can claim victory in the War on Terror. Now Aaronson reveals in detail how the FBI transformed from a reactive law enforcement agency into a proactive counterterrorism unit, and how so-called terror consultants have made fortunes by exaggerating the threat of Islamic terror in the US.
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About the Author
Trevor Aaronson is co-founder of the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting and a senior fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism. He was a 2010-11 investigative reporting fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, where his reporting about FBI informants in U.S. Muslim communities resulted in a Mother Jones cover story that won multiple awards, including the John Jay College/H.F. Guggenheim excellence in Criminal Justice reporting Award, the Molly National Journalism Prize, and the international Data Journalism Award.
