#CoSoNews #News Leaked documents indicate over 300 members of far-right paramilitary Oath Keepers may be current or former DHS employees, Project on Government Oversight reports https://news.yahoo.com/leaked-documents-indicate-over-300-230536493.html
#CoSoNews #News Just weeks after Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes was convicted of seditious conspiracy for trying to violently overturn the 2020 election, a leak of the paramilitary group's membership list has revealed that potentially hundreds of far-right extremists have infiltrated federal law enforcement, the Project on Government Oversight reported on Monday.
#CoSoNews #News More than a decade of recruitment has led the group to collect at least 306 members who have described themselves as "current or former employees of the Department of Homeland Security," according to POGO, which reviewed the leaked membership documents from the group in partnership with the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project.
#CoSoNews #News DHS agencies include US Customs and Immigration Services, the Transportation Security Administration, and the US Secret Service. Most of the self-described DHS employees asserted that they were retired, but at least one claimed to be an activity-duty Secret Service agent; another said they were a supervisor with Border Patrol, according to the documents reviewed by POGO.
#CoSoNews #News The full membership list, which Insider reported on in September, includes more than 38,000 names. The revelation of possible far-right infiltration of federal law enforcement comes after the Department of Defense last year issued a report detailing its own efforts to combat such "extremist activity" within its own ranks. Under guidance issued last December, soldiers are now prohibited from being active members of an extremist group or sharing their content on social media.
@LauraWalkerKC
As much as this doesn't surprise me, it is scary as hell.
Now let's see how many are employed police & military.
The one that hurts me the most is the secret service
When DHS was formed, we *knew* this sort of thing would happen. Knew it.
The worst threat we face is authoritarian impulses that seem to be present in a certain percentage of every human group. That need to take over, control, be Ruler of the Universe is like a living sociological volcano. It's never really gone, just simmering until opportunity for release comes along.
#CoSoNews #News It also follows an FBI warning that white supremacists continue to "pose the primary threat" of lethal domestic terrorism, accounting for more than half of all politically motivated killings over the last decade.