False flag terrorism is carried out to influence public sentiment to be more favorable toward increased government surveillance and searches, deprivation of due process, gun-control, stricter transportation and border controls, and forms the excuse for many other similar violations of privacy and liberty.
David Steele, a 20-year Marine Corps intelligence officer, and the second-highest-ranking civilian in the U.S. Marine Corps Intelligence. He is a former CIA clandestine services case officer, and this is what he had to say:
"Most terrorists are false flag terrorists, or are created by our own security services. In the United States, every single terrorist incident we have had has been a false flag, or has been an informant pushed on by the FBI. In fact, we now have citizens taking out restraining orders against FBI informants that are trying to incite terrorism. We’ve become a lunatic asylum."
Robert David Steele is interviewed on the Max Keiser Report (starting at about 12:25):