re: #453 Feline Fearless Leader

This sounds like the US law enforcement was onto these guys from the get-go. Curious what got them focused on so quickly, but also don’t want that revealed if it is effective (and legally) finding the radical jihadis before they do something destructive.

I half-expect that the FBI or other group is operating some sort of operation where they have “honey pot” style recruiters out there that are riding the edge of entrapment in trying to attract and identify the radicals who are looking at making the step over into violence. And I guess there is also some deterrence value in there being rumor or actual knowledge of an operation like this since at that point you generate suspicion about radicals advocating violence or going to Syria to fight.

Makes me wonder if some of the NSA ‘tools’ had some bearing on all of this.