Screening of Informants
Date and Time
Dec 1, 2014 6:30 pm
Location
450K
450 K St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20001
Dec 1, 2014 6:30 pm
450K
Al Jazeera's investigative unit invites you to a screening of the new film: Informants. The screening will be followed by a discussion panel with Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) , Hina Shamsi (Director, ACLU National Security Project) and Jeremy Young (Senior Producer, Al Jazeera)
About the Film
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is the largest collector of human intelligence in the United States.
On any given day, the FBI has a network of more than 15,000 informants collecting information. Many of the FBI’s informants work in US Muslim communities. These informants are part of a post-9/11 mandate to stop potential attacks before they even begin — a preemptive counterterrorism policy.
To find suspects interested in committing violence in the United States, the FBI assigns informants to pose as members of al-Qaeda, or one of its affiliate groups, and then offer up the opportunity to get involved in a plot.
During the course of this investigation, Al Jazeera met some of the men who spied on US communities on orders from the FBI.
Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit tracked down three informants, all with different methods and motivations, and reveals new details about their undercover work for the US government.
free and open to all
