"He would walk up to one of my friends and say, 'It's good that you guys are getting ready for the jihad.'"

The Washington Post tells the tale of a comically inept FBI informant who joined a California mosque to recruit would-be jihadists. When he wouldn't stop with the anti-America, hey-let's-blow-things-up stuff, the mosque took out a restraining order against him . . . and reported him to the FBI.

But he wasn't completely inept. He did make $177,000, tax free, for 15 months of work.

UPDATE: Jesse Walker beat me to the story.