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Making the absence of proof a proof of its own, the Council on American-Islamic Relations argues that the FBI's failure to identify Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as terrorist threats before the Boston Marathon bombings proves that counter-terror stings don't work. That's among a series of fatuous claims and misguided recommendations in written testimony CAIR submitted to a House committee last week.
The testimony minimized the theological underpinnings driving terrorism by al-Qaida and other Islamists and offered instead a series of grievances and misguided policy recommendations that do nothing to avoid future attacks like Boston's.
CAIR long has cast FBI terrorism sting operations as entrapment, an argument rejected by Attorney General Eric Holder and one that has never proven successful in court. Its proponents are wrong on the facts "or do not have a full understanding of the law," Holder said in 2010.