The truth stings
by digby
Paul Waldman at The Plum Line caught this interesting little factoid from Sarah Kliff’s story about watching all 12 hours of the Planned Parenthood sting tapes:
The most interesting point to me is that while the Planned Parenthood representatives keep reiterating that they don’t profit from fetal tissue but only want to be reimbursed for their costs, there’s a “negotiation” in which the anti-choice activists are trying to convince Planned Parenthood to take more money, presumably so that they could then charge Planned Parenthood with profiting from the sale of fetal tissue.
That’s undoubtedly what they were trying to do. But it struck me that it’s also exactly what the FBI and DHS agents do every day when they find some sad sack and entrap him into making some half-baked terrorist plan so they can arrest them and pat themselves on the back for doing it.
That’s what “stings” are. And people should be properly skeptical about anything produced from such things. Creating a crime so that you can “solve” it (or “expose” it) is not the same as solving or exposing actual crimes.
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