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This American Life: Arms Trader 2009

Listened to this last night - it was incredible. A two-year operation to catch a “terrorist” - except what really happens is so confounding: the US government sends an informant to buy a missile from a suspected crook, and then, frustrated, supplies the crook with said missile to sell to the informant in order to complete their strike. And the one juror who thinks this might be entrapment decides to cave, because she’s trying to close a deal on a house and wants jury duty to end. So full of ironies and interesting conflicts; if only it were fiction. I think they should make a George Clooney movie out of this.

Source: thisamericanlife.org

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