Cleveland Occupy Arrests are the Latest in FBI's Pattern of Manipulation

Guardian UK - Like real-life Avengers, the FBI and 23 separate police agencies joined forces and pounced on a band of villains hell-bent on sowing chaos in a sleepy Midwest suburb earlier this month. The FBI reassured the world that thanks to the "swift collaborative action" of law enforcement, it had rounded up five "self-proclaimed anarchists … intent on using violence to express their ideological views" by attempting to blow up a bridge near Cleveland on May Day.

Now, the Cleveland Five look more like bedraggled punks than diabolical geniuses, but surely doom was averted in the nick of time. In fact, the G-Men admit the exact opposite: "At no time during the course of the investigation was the public ever in danger."

So if there was no threat, what really happened?  Read more.