THE INTERCEPT HAS A DAMNING REPORT IN REGARD TO OUR
INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES AND SOME OF THE UNDERCOVER WORK
THEY'VE DONE REGARDING RIGHT WING EXTREMISM HERE IN THE
UNITED STATES.
WITH THIS REPORT SPECIFICALLY FOCUSES ON AND HONES IN ON
IS THE INFILTRATION OF WHITE SUPREMACISTS INTO OUR LOCAL
POLICE DEPARTMENTS.
THE INCREDIBLE THING ABOUT THIS STORY IS THAT THERE HAVE
BEEN WARNING SIGNS LEADING UP TO WHAT WE ARE EXPERIENCING NOW.
IN FACT, BACK IN 2006 BEFORE OBAMA WAS ELECTED, THE
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY HAD RELEASED A REPORT
INDICATING THAT THERE WAS A GROWING PROBLEM OF RIGHT
WING EXTREMISM IN THE UNITED STATES BY CONSERVATIVES BUT IT
SO AGGRESSIVELY THAT THE DHS NOT ONLY RETRACTED THE REPORT,
THEY ALSO DECIDED TO DISBAND A GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE
TASKED WITH FIGHTING RIGHT WING EXTREMISM IN THE UNITED STATES.
FAST-FORWARD TO TODAY AND WE HAVE EVEN MORE INFORMATION
ABOUT WHAT IS GOING ON.
ACCORDING TO THE INTERCEPT, THE FBI COUNTERTERRORISM GUIDE FROM
APRIL 2015 NOTES THAT DOMESTIC TERRORISM INVESTIGATIONS
FOCUS ON MILITIA EXTREMISTS, WHITE SUPREMACIST EXTREMISM
AND HAVE OFTEN IDENTIFIED ACTIVE LAW ENFORCEMENT
OFFICERS AND SOME POLICIES
HAVE BEEN CRAFTED TO TAKE THIS INFILTRATION INTO ACCOUNT.
FEDERAL INVESTIGATORS HAVE BEEN RELUCTANT TO PUBLICLY ADDRESS
THE ALT RIGHT OR TO POINT OUT THE MOVEMENTS LONG-STANDING
STRATEGY OF INFILTRATING THE LAW-ENFORCEMENT COMMUNITY.
PART OF THE REASON WHY IS BECAUSE OF WHAT THE
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY EXPERIENCED BACK IN 2006.
THE TYPE OF CRITICISM AND THE PUSHBACK THAT THEY GOT FROM
REPUBLICAN LAWMAKERS AND LOOK, LET'S KEEP IT REAL.
THERE ARE MEMBERS OF THE GOVERNMENT, PEOPLE WORKING
IN INTELLIGENCE WHO ARE FUNDAMENTALLY WEAK AND
CANNOT WITHSTAND CRITICISM AND SO AS SOON AS CONSERVATIVES
GET FIRED UP ABOUT SOMETHING, THEY GET SCARED.
BUT IF YOU ARE INTELLIGENCE AND YOU HAVE FOUND THAT THERE
IS A GROWING PROBLEM OF RIGHT WING EXTREMISM IN THIS COUNTRY
WHICH COULD LEAD TO ACTUAL INDIVIDUALS GETTING HURT, MAYBE
YOU SHOULD DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT AND HAVE A BACKBONE.
IT IS TELLING WHEN THEY SAY HEY, DON'T INVESTIGATE
WHITE SUPREMACISTS.
WHAT A WEIRD THING TO SAY.
WHY?
DO YOU IDENTIFY WITH THEM?
IT'S ANOTHER THING IF THEY SAID HEY LOOK, WE ARE GOING TO
INVESTIGATE ALL RIGHT-WINGERS INCLUDING RUSH LIMBAUGH.
WAIT, HE IS NOT A COP.
WHY WOULD YOU INVESTIGATE HIM?
I DON'T LIKE THE GUY AND I DON'T AGREE WITH HIM BUT THAT
HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS.
BUT THIS IS THE FBI.
THEY ARE NOT THERE TO WASTE THEIR TIME AND THEY ARE NOT
A PARTICULARLY LEFT-WING ORGANIZATION.
THEY ARE JUST SAYING WE NEED TO FIGURE OUT IF WHITE SUPREMACISTS
HAVE INFILTRATED THINGS LIKE OUR POLICE DEPARTMENTS AND ARE
TAKING ACTIONS THAT ARE HURTING SOME OF OUR CITIZENS.
HOW COULD YOU BE OPPOSED TO THAT UNLESS YOU ARE A WHITE
SUPREMACISTS AND YOU THINK THAT IS AWESOME.
SOME OF THE EVIDENCE THEY HAVE -
I HAVE EVIDENCE.
HOW THEY ATTACK MEMBERS OF MINORITY GROUPS WITHOUT
JUSTIFICATION.
I HOPE YOU ARE AGAINST THAT.
THE ONLY WAY YOU ARE NOT
AGAINST THAT IS UNLESS YOU ARE A WHITE SUPREMACIST.
WHAT'S WEIRD IS THAT WHEN IT COMES TO DOMESTIC
TERRORISM, IT HAS BECOME SO POLITICALLY CHARGED THAT
INDIVIDUALS WANT TO PROTECT ONE FORM OF TERRORISM WHILE
AGGRESSIVELY GOING AFTER ANOTHER FORM OF TERRORISM.
DOMESTIC TERRORISTS ARE TERRORISTS.
I DON'T CARE IF THE PERSON DOING THE TERRORISM IS WHITE OR
BLACK OR MUSLIM OR WHATEVER.
WHAT I CARE ABOUT IS THE GOVERNMENT USING THE
INTELLIGENCE THAT, BY THE WAY WE ARE PAYING FOR, IN AN
EFFECTIVE WAY TO PROTECT AMERICAN CITIZENS
REGARDLESS OF WHAT AN INDIVIDUAL'S BACKGROUND IS.
CAN I JUST SAY BEFORE YOU GET INTO THE SPECIFICS, I JUST
FIGURED IT OUT.
I DON'T BELIEVE THAT IT'S TAKEN ME THIS LONG.
I JUST REALIZED WHY THEY BLAME ALL MUSLIMS.
I AM LIKE, THAT IS SO IRRATIONAL AND I KNOW THAT SOME OF THEM
WILL SAY NO, MOST OF MUSLIMS, MAJORITY MUSLIMS, WHATEVER.
WHATEVER DISTINCTION YOU WANT.
AND I THINK WHY NOT
JUST GO AFTER THE GUYS WHO ACTUALLY DID IT?
COULD YOU IMAGINE IF WE WERE WEIRDLY LIKE NO, DON'T GO AFTER THE
RADICAL JIHADISTS.
WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?
NO, OF COURSE GO AFTER THEM.
THEY MIGHT KILL US.
BUT DON'T RANDOMLY GO AFTER A MUSLIM DUDE WHO IS NOT A
RADICAL JIHADIST.
BUT I FIGURED OUT WHY.
BECAUSE THEY ARE DOING PROJECTION.
THEY THINK WHEN YOU GO AFTER A WHITE SUPREMACIST, WE
ASSUME YOU MEAN US SO THAT IS WHERE THEY GET DEFENSIVE
AND THEY ARE LIKE WHY ARE YOU GOING AFTER WHITE SUPREMACISTS?
DON'T DO THAT.
THEY ASSUME THAT WE ARE GOING TO HAVE THE SAME REACTION
WHERE WE ARE GOING TO BE LIKE DON'T GO AFTER JIHADISTS,
WHY ARE YOU GOING AFTER JIHADISTS?
NO, WE WANT YOU TO GO AFTER RIGHT-WING TERRORISTS
BUT FOR THEM THEY THINK, THOSE GUYS KINDA THINK LIKE WE DO.
WE MAKE A DISTINCTION BETWEEN FUNDAMENTALISTS AND
MODERATES AND THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE.
FOR THEM, THEY DON'T MAKE DISTINCTIONS BASED ON
FUNDAMENTALISM OR NOT.
THEY MAKE DISTINCTIONS ON ARE YOU LIKE ME, ARE YOU WHITE?
ARE YOU THIS NATIONALITY?
OR ARE YOU NOT?
THAT IS A DISTINCTION THEY MAKE.
LOOK, THE THING THAT OBVIOUSLY CONCERNS ME AND SHOULD
CONCERN EVERYONE REGARDLESS OF WHERE YOU STAND POLITICALLY IS
THAT IF THERE IS EVIDENCE OF BAD ACTORS IN THIS COUNTRY
AGAIN, REGARDLESS OF THEIR BACKGROUND, I DON'T CARE
ABOUT THEIR SKIN COLOR OR GENDER OR ANY OF THAT.
WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE TAKE CARE OF THE SITUATION
INSTEAD OF IGNORE IT TO THE POINT WHERE SOMEONE COULD REALLY
POSE A REAL RISK, AN IMMINENT THREAT TO AMERICAN CITIZENS
AND BY THE WAY, I WANT TO BE CLEAR ABOUT SOMETHING.
THIS FBI REPORT IS NOT SOMETHING THAT THE FBI JUST
WILLY-NILLY PUBLISHED.
THIS WAS SOMETHING THAT THE INTERCEPT GOT A FREEDOM OF
INFORMATION, USED THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT TO
GET THIS INFORMATION FROM THE FBI.
THEY ARE LOOKING INTO IT AND THEY'RE LIKE OH MY GOD,
LOOK IT WHAT IS HAPPENING AND THEN YOU PUT IN THE CONTEXT OF
WHAT HAPPENED IN 2006 WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
SUPPORT AND IT STARTS REALLY RAISING A LOT OF RED FLAGS.
I'M GOING TO SAY ONE LAST THING.
THAT DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY REPORT IN 2006
WAS UNDER THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION.
BY THE WAY, CREDIT TO THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION FOR DOING A
REPORT ABOUT RIGHT WING TERRORISM AND WHITE
SUPREMACISTS AND THEN UNFORTUNATELY, IT WAS
RELEASED UNDER THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION.
THEY DID NOT WRITE IT, THEY HAPPEN TO RELEASE IT
PUBLICLY WHEN OBAMA WAS PRESIDENT AND RUSH LIMBAUGH
AND THE REST FLIPPED OUT, LIKE HOW DARE YOU?
OBAMA IS ATTACKING ALL OF US WONDERFUL WHITE SUPREMACISTS.
AND REMEMBER, THAT WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE TEA PARTY
MOVEMENT SO YEAH, THE BACKLASH WAS PRETTY EXTREME AND THE
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY AGAIN GOT RID OF THEIR TEAM
THAT WAS GIVEN THE SOLE JOB OF KEEPING AN EYE ON RIGHT
WING EXTREMISM IN THIS COUNTRY.
THEY BROUGHT THAT TEAM DOWN FROM 25 AGENTS TO 1.
OBAMA, THAT IS WHY HE DROVE ME CRAZY.
I'M GOING AFTER WHITE SUPREMACISTS BUT NOT IF RUSH
LIMBAUGH, FOX NEWS AND THE TEA PARTY FILE A COMPLAINT.
THE PROPER REACTION SHOULD'VE BEEN ANYWAY, LET'S MAKE THAT
50 AGENTS INSTEAD OF 25.
LET'S TALK ABOUT WHAT THIS MEANS FOR LOCAL POLICE
DEPARTMENTS BECAUSE THIS IS ACTUALLY SOMETHING THAT I
DIDN'T EVEN THINK OF WHEN WE DO ALL OF THESE STORIES OF
POLICE BRUTALITY OR EXCESSIVE FORCE.
THIS IS AGAIN ACCORDING TO THE FBI REPORT THAT THE
INTERCEPT MANAGED TO OBTAIN.
IN AT LEAST ONE CASE, THE FBI LEARNED OF A SKINHEAD GROUP
ENCOURAGING GHOST SKINS TO SEEK EMPLOYMENT WITH LAW-ENFORCEMENT
AGENCIES IN ORDER TO WARN CREWS OF ANY INVESTIGATIONS.
WHAT ARE GHOST SKINS?
THESE ARE WHITE NATIONALISTS WHO HIDE THE FACT THAT THEY ARE
WHITE NATIONALISTS SO THEY CAN ENTER INTO THE POLICE FORCE
AND ESSENTIALLY WORK AS NARCS BECAUSE YOU WERE TRYING TO
FIGURE OUT WHETHER OR NOT LOCAL POLICE DEPARTMENTS ARE
INVESTIGATING RIGHT WING EXTREMISM OR INVESTIGATING
OUR FRIENDS.
ALSO IN LOS ANGELES, U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE, I'M SORRY U.S.
DISTRICT COURT JUDGE FOUND IN 1991
THE MEMBERS OF THE LOCAL SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT HAD
FORMED A NEO-NAZI GANG AND HABITUALLY TERRORIZED
BLACK AND LATINO RESIDENTS.
IN CHICAGO JON BURGE, A POLICE
DETECTIVE AND RUMORED KKK MEMBER, WAS FIRED AND EVENTUALLY
PROSECUTED IN 2008 OVER CHARGES RELATING TO THE TORTURE OF
AT LEAST 120 BLACK MAN DURING HIS DECADES LONG CAREER.
HE NOTORIOUSLY REFERRED TO AN ELECTROSHOCK DEVICE HE USED
DURING INTERROGATIONS AS THE NIGGER BOX.
ONE OF THOSE WAS 1991.
THAT IS LA.
LA IS SO LIBERAL.
DEPENDS ON WHO YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT.
THE OTHER WAS 2008.
THAT IS NOT THAT LONG AGO.
HE DID THAT, ONE COP TO 120 BLACK GUYS.
AND THEN YOU WONDER WHY SOMETIMES BLACK AMERICANS
SAY WE HAVE A LITTLE DIFFERENT EXPERIENCE THAN YOU.
SOMETIMES WE GET THAT BOX AND YOU NEVER SEE IT BECAUSE
THE WHITE SUPREMACISTS ARENíT GOING TO BRING OUT THAT ELECTROSHOCK
DEVICE FOR YOU BECAUSE IT IS NOT INTENDED FOR YOU.
IT IS
NOT INTENDED FOR CRIMINALS, IT IS INTENDED BECAUSE THE
GUYíS A WHITE SUPREMACIST AND WOULD LIKE TO TORTURE BLACK PEOPLE.
THAT IS WHY HE WENT TO JAIL OVER IT.
SOME PEOPLE NEVER SEE THAT.
THEY GO WELL, SINCE IT DIDN'T HAPPEN TO ME, IT DIDN'T
HAPPEN.
I DON'T BELIEVE IT.
THAT IS WHY WE NEED THE FBI TO SUSS OUT WHAT ISN'T TRUE AND
WHAT IS TRUE AND TO INVESTIGATE AND PURSUE JUSTICE.
ONE MORE EXAMPLE AND BY THE WAY, THESE ARE JUST A
FEW EXAMPLES HIGHLIGHTED IN THE REPORT.
I HIGHLY RECOMMEND
THAT YOU GUYS READ THE FULL REPORT BY INTERCEPT
BECAUSE IT IS ILLUMINATING AND IT TELLS YOU WHAT IS REALLY
GOING ON IN THERE NEEDS TO BE SOLUTIONS TO THIS PROBLEM.
APPARENTLY IN TEXAS TWO OFFICERS WERE FIRED WHEN IT WAS
DISCOVERED THEY WERE KLANSMEN.
ONE OF THEM SAID HE HAD TRIED TO BOOST THE ORGANIZATIONS
MEMBERSHIP BY GIVING AN APPLICATION TO A FELLOW OFFICER
HE THOUGHT SHARED HIS WHITE CHRISTIAN HETEROSEXUAL VALUES.
LOOK, THIS IS VERY PROBLEMATIC AND ESPECIALLY
CONSIDERING HOW EVERYTHING WENT DOWN DURING THIS LAST ELECTION
AND THE TYPES OF PEOPLE WHO FEEL EMBOLDENED TO COME OUT AND SHARE
THEIR HATRED AND THEIR BIGOTRY.
WE HAVE A GROWING PROBLEM THAT IS GOING UNADDRESSED.
I LIKE THAT THE FBI CONTINUED TO INVESTIGATE THIS OBVIOUSLY
ALSO UNDER COMEY, WHO IS BY NO MEANS LIBERAL.
I AM PRETTY SURE OF THAT.
GIVEN WHAT HAPPENED IN THE ELECTION.
BUT IT DOES WORRY ME THAT THEY WERE NOT VERY KEEN ON
RELEASING THIS REPORT OR THE INVESTIGATION.
AGAIN, THE INTERCEPT HAD TO OBTAIN IT THROUGH THE
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT.
IF YOU ARE A CONSERVATIVE WITH GOOD INTENTIONS, GOD BLESS.
THERE NEEDS TO BE A RANGE OF THOUGHT IN THE COUNTRY AND
WE SHOULD DEBATE ABOUT HOW MUCH REGULATIONS WE SHOULD HAVE
AND WHAT THE TAX RATE SHOULD BE.
BUT WE SHOULDN'T DEBATE OVER THIS STUFF.
IF YOU THINK THAT WE SHOULD COVER UP WHITE SUPREMACISTS IN
THE COPS OR IT IS NO BIG DEAL, THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH
YOU.
EITHER YOU ARE A WHITE SUPREMACISTS OR YOU THINK
IT IS NO BIG DEAL AND THAT IS WHY THE REST OF THE COUNTRY
THINKS YOU ARE BAD PEOPLE.
IF YOU ARE NOT IN THAT GROUP, THEN MAKE SURE THAT YOU
THROW THEM OUT OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
DISTANCE YOURSELF AND HELP THE FBI INVESTIGATE THEM.
IF YOU DON'T, THEN YOU ARE SAYING OH, TO ME IT IS NOT
THAT BIG OF A DEAL BECAUSE I AM NOT A MINORITY.
WHAT DO I CARE?
THAT IS A REALITY.