REPORT: DHS Indicates White Supremacists Pose Gravest Terror Threat | Talking Points Memo

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White supremacists pose the most serious terror threat to the United States, according to a draft report from the Department of Homeland Security.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1330669
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Well ain’t that a kick in head, the threat is coming from inside the house.

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I was assured there were very fine people on the white supremacist side.

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Oh good! Will DHS then brand their leader, Rump, a security threat?

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Fake news
everyone knows DHS is a Soros funded Marxist cabal

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West Point:

FoxNews: ANTIFA!

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But since they kinda sorta like Trump, he’s cool with them.

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Actually Trump continues his role as Example One of White Inferiority.

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Also looks like the FBI has other ideas than Trump regarding Kenosha “militia”
There’s a link to the filing in the article which is a “fun” read also (on the names of the two indicted).

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Thank god they don’t have powerful domestic and foreign patrons, encouraging and helping them via moral and even material support…

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I see that the Deep State is hard at work trying to take down the Orange burrito. The DHS Acting Wolfman‘s time may be up with this leak.

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Among DVE [domestic violent extremist] actors, WSEs [white supremacist extremists] conducted half of all lethal attacks (8 of 16) [2019], resulting in the majority of deaths (39 of 48),” the drafts read.

The govt agencies have been saying this since OK bombing in 1995, but Republicans balked at these reports because it included the term white supremacist terrorists. Apparently they have gotten around that again (although highlighting WSEs, so nobody is fooled) by including everyone under the DVE banner.

Progress?

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It’s like anything. Usually the best at anything don’t boast much about it. They let their superiority speak for them. It’s the worst who are always boasting about qualities they wish they had but clearly don’t, unable to handle being inferior and lacking the moral strength and character to do anything about it.

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They were ex cons illegally possessing firearms. A lot of firearms. Had they been Oath Keepers or upstanding citizens belonging to a militia, no one would’ve stopped them.
Bottom line, they didn’t want these types of individuals to tarnish the white supremacist image by going off the reservation. I’m thinking they figured ex-cons with weapons would damage their image.

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Now, what is the Dept. of Homeland Security doing about it? The FBI? Do our agencies have sufficient resources?

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White Men Can’t Fail.

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That’s a rather cynical interpretation of it and I don’t think it’s really backed up in this particular case by the actual filing from the FBI agent.
Can’t really tell the chain of events for sure, but it looks like the agents were investigating before discovering the records of the people involved.
I’m as wary of conspiracy theories from the left as I am from the right and the generalized/amorphous “they” falls into the kind of thing that can’t be proven one way or another.
I will grant that if a specific “non-they” such as Barr had gotten involved, there is a good chance an attempt would have been made to overlook the initial stuff.

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Thanks, Capt Obvious! Because we haven’t known this since before Reconstruction?!

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They don’t always make it easy by posting their PC on the interwebs.

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On the upside, after Trump loses this November he won’t have the Presidency to protect him when he makes threats or encourages terrorist violence against people and even Twitter won’t have an excuse to keep him around (Facebook will of course, no question there).

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