How FBI Groomed Teenager With ‘Learning Disability’ To Become A Terrorist

Paul Ventura, father of 18-year-old Mateo Ventura, explains how the FBI groomed his teenage son with a learning disability to become a terrorist.

Paul Ventura, father of 18-year-old Mateo Ventura, displays a photograph on his cellphone that shows what he describes as a photo of himself and his son Mateo, on June 8, 2023, in Worcester, Mass. Photo: Steven Senne/AP

LAST WEEK, the Department of Justice announced the arrest of a teenager in Massachusetts on allegations of providing financial support to the Islamic State group.

A flurry of reports picked up on the arrest of Mateo Ventura, an 18-year-old resident of the sleepy town of Wakefield, echoing government claims that an international terrorist financier and ISIS supporter had just been busted in the United States. The Department of Justice’s own press release on the case likewise trumpeted Ventura’s arrest for “knowingly concealing the source of material support or resources that he intended to go to a foreign terrorist or...

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