Right, and if you believe that explanation, then... *insert cliche about being gullible here*

I'm sure that there wasn't anything important in that conversation anyways.

The FBI has dealt with entrapment claims in the past. They are professionals, not bumbling fuckups. The conversation they didn't record is the meeting that FBI knew it most needed to record to avoid the extremely predictable claim of entrapment, to prove that this was a Mohamed Mohamud bomb plot and not an FBI bomb plot. It's the piece of evidence that they *KNOW* they need in order to convict Mohamud.

Coupled with the push for the JTTF in Portland, the fact that, with all their professional meticulousness, the FBI managed to miss recording this crucial conversation is very compelling evidence that it may be an FBI bomb plot and entrapment.

Yeah. The conversation could have been really boring. Why just the other day I was talking to a guy I didn’t know and I was all “Fuck America” and he was all “Why don’t you do something about it?” and I was like “naw, I’m not interested” but quicker than shit he’d convinced me to try and FUCKING BLOW UP THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE GATHERED IN A PUBLIC SPACE.

"A recorder was turned on hours before the key meeting" They have some great audio of the food court at Pioneer Place, anyway. May be useful to future anthropologists.

Best advert for the Energizer Bunny, or The dog ate my deposition.