The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reportedly groomed a 16-year-old boy with “brain development issues” into sending money to fake “terrorists” in order to catch him when he turned 18.
Although the Justice Department says teenager Mateo Ventura financially gave to terrorist groups and supported ISIS, documents reportedly explain that Ventura gave an undercover FBI agent gift cards and repeatedly turned down the opportunity to travel overseas.
Ventura later turned in his “ISIS contact,” the undercover FBI agent, to the FBI.
Ventura’s family claimed their son was manipulated by the FBI and is not a terrorist.
As Ventura’s father told The Intercept, “He was born prematurely, he had brain development issues. I had the school do a neurosurgery evaluation on him and they said his brain was underdeveloped. He was suffering endless bullying at school with other kids taking food off his plate, tripping him in the hallway, humiliating him, laughing at him.”
Reporting from Information Liberation:
This case is especially ironic considering the US government supported ISIS and ISIS was only destroyed after Trump got into office and shut down a CIA program that was arming ISIS-aligned terrorists in Syria to fight a proxy war against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
