A Michigan-based lawyer has accused FBI Director Kash Patel of boasting about preventing a nonexistent terror attack.

Patel eagerly posted on X the morning of Oct. 31 the FBI had “thwarted a potential terrorist attack and arrested multiple subjects,” in Michigan, adding in a follow-up post that a “violent plot tied to international terrorism was disrupted.”

Amir Makled, a defense attorney representing a 20-year-old man detained along with four other young adult males and minors on suspicion of planning an Islamic State-inspired attack over the Halloween weekend, disputes the claim. He says the suspects, believed to be gamers aged 16 to 20, were not actually plotting an attack while talking in online chat rooms, and that federal authorities have provided him with few details about the inv

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