Law enforcement

AVOIDING THE STING: U.S. ORGANIZATION PROPOSES DIFFERENT APPROACH TO “RADICALIZATION”

Last March, John T. Booker, a 20-year-old from Kansas, checked himself into a mental health facility for evaluation. Now, a year later, he faces the possibility of spending the rest of his life in prison, charged with attempting to provide material support to a terrorist organization and attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction — the fake bomb that he was provided by undercover FBI informants.