While that does happen, it didn't this time.
Except that the Times Square bomber flew into the country, bought everything he needed, and built a bomb, left it in Times Square, then got on a plane, all while the FBI was playing with some idiot in Portland.
If they had been doing their job they could have caught this guy after he bought the bomb supplies, and before he built it.
Which is why they should not be wasting multiple hours on stings to help people build fake bombs. You think I am contradicting myself, and fail to see the fact that you are the one who is doing that.
He was already guilty of enough to charge him with a crime, and deport him, after they intercepted the emails about terror training. Yet they tied up resources playing footsie with him, and missed a real threat somewhere else.
If the FBI were really catching dangerous terrorists we would know about it because they would end up in court, and the FBI, the DoJ, and the White House would be trumpeting the fact that they were stopping all these dangerous people. No one is telling you about something is not proof that it happens.
They can't deport him. He's a naturalized US citizen. You obviously have done very little reading on this incident.
You're quite naive about law enforcement intelligence. We the people will likely never know about the most severe and most imminent threats to our country.
Why? Because of counter-intell.
We don't wanna publicly give our hand to the enemy. And we sure as hell dont wanna publicly lay out how we caught the most severe threats, or God forbid, inform a wannabe on how someone almost got us.
Portland was a small fish. Yes. But he had big plans. And we got him.
And NO, he was not "already guilty" of a crime. What crime? His desires, verbal and typed expressions are protected by the 1st amendment. Any material he bought was bought, read again, "BOUGHT", so that material was legally possessed. Only in the construction of the bomb did he have what he thought was a WMD. But the FBI constructed it from the parts he obtained. The "crime" happened when he took the bomb, possessed it, and then tried to use it.
And really, once he possessed it, why the hell stop there? Why not let his dumbass go ahead and try to ignite a fake bomb and charge him with attempting to use a WMD?