Why Does the FBI Have to Manufacture its Own Plots if Terrorism and ISIS Are Such Grave Threats?

The FBI and major media outletsyesterdaytrumpeted the agency’slatest counter-terrorism triumph: the arrest of three Brooklyn men, ages 19 to 30, on charges of conspiring to travel to Syria tofight forISIS (photo of joint FBI/NYPD press conference, above). As my colleague Murtaza Hussain ably documents,“it appears that none of the three men was in any condition to travel or support the Islamic State, without help from the FBI informant.” One of thefrightening terrorist villainstold the FBI inf...