Documentary In the Shadow of 9/11 re-examines a case study of dubious FBI counter-terrorism tactics for the illusion of safety
In June 2006, the FBI arrested seven men from the poor, predominantly black neighborhood of Liberty City, in Miami, on charges no less than attempting to wage war on America. In a boastful press conference, then attorney general Alberto Gonzales, outlined an ambitious, chilling plot to blow up Chicago’s Sears Tower, to launch a “full ground war against the United States”, and to support al-Qaida.
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