Florida Center for Investigative Reporting Executive Director Trevor Aaronson participated in a HuffPost Live panel on March 2 about the FBI’s use of informants in counterterrorism operations.

Aaronson, author of The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI’s Manufactured War on Terrorism, has covered extensively the FBI’s post-9/11 counterterrorism practices.

Former FBI Special Agent Peter Ahearn and University of South Carolina law professor Wadie Said joined Aaronson in the discussion.

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