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Interesting story, but why would the FBI protect Morley? What would be their motive?

No idea, but based on the way they returned the evidence to local authorities and claiming they couldn't find anything makes me wonder if they committed a serious breach of protocol at some point (i.e. an FBI agent or informant gave the suspect live bomb-making materials constituting entrapment, etc.)

Yes, this sounds like the most likely explanation - they were already involved in some way, and admitting it would be far worse than merely not catching the bomber. Wasn't there something like this with Mexican gunrunning? And isn't there already a record of the FBI effectively creating suspects by "recruiting" them as terrorists?

Yep, here’s a case of the FBI recruiting a “terrorist” for the publicity of stopping an attack on a holiday:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Portland_car_bomb_plot

Wasn't there something like this with Mexican gunrunning?

You're likely referring to the ATF gunwalking scandal[0], the best known piece of which was "Operation Fast and Furious"[1]:

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATF_gunwalking_scandal

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2013/08/27/world/americas/operation-fast...

>Mexican gunrunning

You are thinking of Operation Fast and Furious I believe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATF_gunwalking_scandal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Mosharref_Hossain

Giving the suspect live bomb making materials would be a bad thing to do... but it probably wouldn't be entrapment.

Entrapment _generally_ requires more than that law enforcement facilitated the crime: it (broadly) requires that they somehow induced someone to commit a crime they would otherwise be unwilling to.

Most people aren't 'gifted bomb making materials and plans' while being coached by law enforcement. The implied facts paint a hazy picture at best.

The FBI has a long history of masterminding terror plots, recruiting foolish people (some who are mentally impaired) to carry them out, providing them with the means to do so, and then arresting them just before they carry out the plot and declaring that the FBI has protected America by thwarting another terror plot.

Given the facts in the article that Morley is the likely bombmaker, knew the brothers, and the feds particularly the FBI are protecting him, it now appears that the Marathon bombing was yet another terror plot thought up by the FBI, Morley was working under their direction and was their handler, and the FBI lost control of the situation in this case and failed to execute the arrest before the bomb was actually deployed.

I don’t know about Morley but the background of the uncle of the brothers is worth reading about:

https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-boston-bombings-and-the-ci...

“Ruslan Tsarnaev, the outspoken uncle of the brothers was married to Samantha A. Fuller until 2004. Samantha’s father is Graham Fuller, the senior CIA person who was the architect the Afghan Islamic fundamentalist Mujahideen war against the Soviets.”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11882047

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Really?

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