Intercept
The Department of Justice announced the arrest of a teenager in Massachusetts on allegations of providing financial support to the Islamic State group.
A flurry of reports picked up on the arrest of Mateo Ventura, an 18-year-old resident of the sleepy town of Wakefield, echoing government claims that an international terrorist financier and ISIS supporter had just been busted in the United States. The Department of Justice’s own press release on the case likewise trumpeted Ventura’s arrest for “knowingly concealing the source of material support or resources that he intended to go to a foreign terrorist organization.”
The only problem with the case and how it has been described, however, is that according to the government’s own criminal complaint, Ventura had never actually funded any terrorist group. The only “terrorist” he is accused of ever being in contact with was an undercover FBI agent who befriended him online as a 16-year-old, solicited small cash donations in the form of gift cards, and directed him not to tell anyone else about their intimate online relationship, including his family.
The arrest has shaken his family, who denied allegations that their son was a terrorist and said that he had been manipulated by the FBI. Ventura’s father, Paul Ventura, told The Intercept that Mateo suffered from childhood developmental issues and had been forced to leave his school due to bullying from other students. read more
The FBI is evil.
If you can groom a VP to take bribes from Ukraine you can groom anyone.
TODAY, I BELIEVE THE FBI, CIA, DOJ ETC WILL DO ANYTHING FOR POWER
THERE WAS A TIME I BELIEVED, AS A PATRIOT, THAT THEY WERE IMPORTANT PARTS OF A GREAT COUNTRY
I INTERVIEWED AT 14 (YEP, LOL) TO BE AN FBI AGENT, 10 YRS LATER WITH THE CIA
WOW, SO GLAD I WENT TO COMBAT WITH THE NAVY, WHERE THE SHIT WAS REAL, NO BULLSHIT
FBI
Following
Bidens
Instructions
A nation of “free” law abiding people cannot afford or tolerate a rogue law enforcement agency like what the fbi has become. It’s time to take their guns and badges away.
Not surprised that the FiBbIes have groomed and arrested a teen with mental issued.
Now,if you tell me that the FiBbIe groomers have been arrested, fired from their jobs, tried, convicted and sentenced, THEN I would be surprised!
Was his name Roy Epps III ?….
Aaaaand this is where all the school shootings come from.
Does the FBI need to create terrorist supporters (actual or fake) in order to justify their existence? Flex their muscle? Or just to use susceptible US citizens to train…
All three probably, and just because they can do whatever the hell they want – for now anyway.
Is this how they get the convenient mass shooters?
“knowingly concealing the source of material support or resources that he intended to go to a foreign terrorist organization.”
How long before donations to conservatives and conservative groups are are targeted? The SPLC has deemed many to be terrorists orgs. I’m very careful about donations for this reason.