I do not know how well corroborated this story is, but... [View All]

[Pierre.Suave]

Here in the Minneapolis/St Paul metro area we have to look to our Alt-Weekly for good reporting thanks to the lack of initiative on behalf of the two "major" newspapers.

With that all said, here is the link and an excerpt.

http://articles.citypages.com/2008-05-21/news/moles-wanted/

Carroll, who requested that his real name not be used, showed up early and waited anxiously for Swanson’s arrival. Ten minutes later, he says, a casually dressed Swanson showed up, flanked by a woman whom he introduced as FBI Special Agent Maureen E. Mazzola. For the next 20 minutes, Mazzola would do most of the talking.

“She told me that I had the perfect ‘look,’” recalls Carroll. “And that I had the perfect personality—they kept saying I was friendly and personable—for what they were looking for.”

What they were looking for, Carroll says, was an informant—someone to show up at “vegan potlucks” throughout the Twin Cities and rub shoulders with RNC protestors, schmoozing his way into their inner circles, then reporting back to the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, a partnership between multiple federal agencies and state and local law enforcement. The effort’s primary mission, according to the Minneapolis division’s website, is to “investigate terrorist acts carried out by groups or organizations which fall within the definition of terrorist groups as set forth in the current United States Attorney General Guidelines.”

If I knew how I would do much more investigating of this on my own. I hope others in the area do as well. If this is happening, I think every American should know about it.

edit: I put the words in bold, not the newspaper.