John Dolen: FCIR’s co-director is the author of a new and provocative book, The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI’s Manufactured War on Terrorism.

The contest recognized Trevor Aaronson’s reporting on FBI informants in U.S. Muslim communities.

Trevor Aaronson won the 2012 John Jay College/H.F. Guggenheim Excellence in Criminal Justice Reporting Award in the single-story category.

VIDEO: FCIR Associate Director Trevor Aaronson talks with Juan Gonzalez and Amy Goodman about his report on the FBI’s use of informants in terrorism investigations.

Trevor Aaronson found that nearly half of all federal terrorism prosecutions since 9/11 involved informants.

Study: 46.3 percent of all money loaned to students at two-and four-year for-profit colleges in 2008 will eventually go into default.