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http://www.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/15-11/ff_rossmiller?currentPage=all
Assuming that this isn't an overly rosy picture...it sounds like precisely the sort of police work (note: not military work!) that is required to track down and defuse/prevent most terrorist plans and actions.
I'm not wild about the possibility of this being perverted into entrapment, and I'm not even sure that it hasn't happened here. But I greatly prefer the notion, in general, that the way to catch criminals of any stripe is to pay close attention to their activities (rather than, say, institute martial law in the neighborhood where you've heard they used to live).
(edit: added the link to the article. :P )
Assuming that this isn't an overly rosy picture...it sounds like precisely the sort of police work (note: not military work!) that is required to track down and defuse/prevent most terrorist plans and actions.
I'm not wild about the possibility of this being perverted into entrapment, and I'm not even sure that it hasn't happened here. But I greatly prefer the notion, in general, that the way to catch criminals of any stripe is to pay close attention to their activities (rather than, say, institute martial law in the neighborhood where you've heard they used to live).
(edit: added the link to the article. :P )
