The Oregonian reports a very interesting development in the Portland bomb sting case:
Mohamed Mohamud's defense team claimed Friday that a man working for the U.S. government tried to provoke their client into violent acts more than a year before the FBI accused him of trying to bomb Portland's downtown Christmas tree lighting ceremony.
I'll have more detailed thoughts on this later, but this is a pretty significant development. If the defense's allegations are true, it might make the case look more like the Jacobson child porn entrapment case, where the government spent a period of time hounding a defendant and wearing down his resistance to buying child porn.
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