Mr Toledano : America the gift shop

Terrorist Plots, Helped Along by the F.B.I. – NYTimes.com. THE United States has been narrowly saved from lethal terrorist plots in recent years — or so it has seemed.

Sepoy asks the tough question over at Chapati Mystery. We’ve been giving money to a fraud, but we believe we can identify targets through drone cameras. Do we even know who we are after? Fake Talibothra. So, tell me, spy novel world, how is it that you cannot identify someone you give money to, someone you introduce to highest officials but you ask us to believe that you know without any doubt that someone you kill without any formal charge, any trial is the right target?