Whether or not the person's willingness to commit a crime given the opportunity is a punishable offense, the tactic sets a frightening precedent. They are not putting active terrorists in these secret prisons, they're filling them up with entrapped individuals to prove the mass surveillance program is useful, and then torturing them to say things that prove the military industry is necessary. One individual mentioned in the article was pestered by an informant for 8 months and only succumbed when he lost his job and got offered 250,000 dollars.

The amount of children being murdered as a result of these programs vastly outweighs the number of deaths that would have been caused even if these individuals had planned and carried out the attacks on their own, let alone the fact that these plots are completely organized and funded by the FBI. They are a ploy to lull the American people into supporting an enterprise that profits off death.