officers again pose as members of a terrorist sleeper cell. they provide this 19-year-old from dallas, texas, with what he thinks are chemicals to build a bomb. he attempts to detonate the fake bomb in the basement of a dallas skyscraper. in 2010, he pled guilty. he is sentenced to 24 years in prison. as hyperfunded counterterrorism law enforcement reaches as far as possible and then some to find and disrupt and in some cases conjure terrorist plots, the newly created department of homeland security, a department consolidating 22 previous agencies representing the largest increase in the size of the federal government since world war ii, is a product of the 9/11 commission's findings. and as the federal government grows in response to 9/11, so does a government-funded security gravy train. getting yourself listed in the national asset database of terror targets becomes a way to