Episode 15 - The Terror Factory

Guest: Muhammad Sankari
Hosts: Page May
Date: June 19, 2017 
Length: 56:26

Key Questions:

1. How has the FBI’s strategy changed since 9/11?
2. How are informants recruited and what do they do?
3. How do we organize against the FBI & resist their infiltration?

Additional Resources

• AAAN Youth Campaign to End Racial Profiling
• (T)error (film)
• Informants (Al Jazeera Documentary)
• The Informants (Article)

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Former FBI Director James Comey's recent assertion that "the FBI is honest, the FBI is strong," outraged all of us familiar with COINTELPRO. In this episode, Page May sits down with Muhammad Sankari, a youth organizer with the Arab American Action Network, to learn more about the current evolution (and dishonesty) of the FBI since 9/11. We discussed The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI's Manufactured War on Terrorism, a 2014 book  by Trevor Aaronson. Through investigative journalism, Aaronson exposes how the FBI has built a massive network of informants whose primary purpose is to infiltrate Muslim communities to create and facilitate phony terrorist plots so that the Bureau can then claim it is winning the war on terror.