<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[The Dish]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://dish.andrewsullivan.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Andrew Sullivan]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://dish.andrewsullivan.com/author/sullydish/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[The FBI&#8217;s Terrorist&nbsp;Plots]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>On the heels of this week&#39;s <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/09/29/pentagon-capitol-targeted-by-massachusetts-man-in-plot-foiled-by-fbi.html" target="_self">terrorism scare</a>, Glenn Greenwald <a href="http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/09/29/fbi_terror/index.html" target="_self">takes</a> the FBI to task:</p> <blockquote> <p>Time and again, the&#0160;FBI concocts a Terrorist attack, infiltrates Muslim  communities in order to find recruits, persuades them to perpetrate the  attack, supplies them with the money, weapons and know-how they need to  carry it out -- only to heroically jump in at the last moment, arrest  the would-be perpetrators whom the FBI converted, and save a grateful  nation from the plot manufactured by the&#0160;FBI.</p> </blockquote> <p>Julian Sanchez <a href="http://www.juliansanchez.com/2011/09/30/why-sting/" target="_self">contemplates</a> the government&#39;s strategy:</p>]]></html></oembed>