Stories by Trevor Aaronson

Trevor Aaronson is author of The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI's Manufactured War on Terrorism (Ig Publishing, January 2013). He is also co-director of the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting and a senior fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University. subscribe to Trevor Aaronson's feed

Posted on: Feb 15, 2013, Source: Ig Publishing

In the ten years following 9/11, the FBI and the Justice Department convicted more than 150 people following sting operations, though few had any connection to real terrorists.

Posted on: Oct 9, 2011, Source: Mother Jones

The FBI has built a massive network of spies to prevent another domestic attack. But are they busting terrorist plots—or leading them?