"Consider the case of Oregon college student Mohamed Osman Mohamud. He thought about using a car bomb to attack a well-attended, festive Christmas tree-lighting ceremony in Portland. The FBI gave him a van packed with inert explosives consisting of some real, but inactive, detonators and six 55-gallon drums, along with a gallon of diesel fuel. An FBI agent even drove the van. When Mohamud called the cell phone number that was supposed to trigger the explosion, nothing explosive happened, except that he got arrested."

"This isn’t some wild conspiracy theory like “the Russians hacked the election,” either. It’s a documented, widely-reported fact, even making the pages of the New York Times."

Is creating these events, then catching the bad guy they set up to be bad a ruse so the American public will think their great?

Is this so different from the guy that sets your house on fire only to run in a rescue you and become a Hero?