The FBI Has Quietly Investigated White Supremacist Infiltration of Law Enforcement

[octoberlib]

WHITE SUPREMACISTS AND other domestic extremists maintain an active presence in U.S. police departments and other law enforcement agencies. A striking reference to that conclusion, notable for its confidence and the policy prescriptions that accompany it, appears in a classified FBI Counterterrorism Policy Guide from April 2015, obtained by The Intercept. The guide, which details the process by which the FBI enters individuals on a terrorism watchlist, the Known or Suspected Terrorist File, notes that “domestic terrorism investigations focused on militia extremists, white supremacist extremists, and sovereign citizen extremists often have identified active links to law enforcement officers,” and explains in some detail how bureau policies have been crafted to take this infiltration into account.

Although these right-wing extremists have posed a growing threat for years, federal investigators have been reluctant to publicly address that threat or to point out the movement’s longstanding strategy of infiltrating the law enforcement community.No centralized recruitment process or set of national standards exists for the 18,000 law enforcement agencies in the United States, many of which have deep historical connections to racist ideologies. As a result, state and local police as well as sheriff’s departments present ample opportunities for white supremacists and other right-wing extremists looking to expand their power base.

In a heavily redacted version of an October 2006 FBI internal intelligence assessment, the agency raised the alarm over white supremacist groups’ “historical” interest in “infiltrating law enforcement communities or recruiting law enforcement personnel.” The effort, the memo noted, “can lead to investigative breaches and can jeopardize the safety of law enforcement sources or personnel.” The memo also states that law enforcement had recently become aware of the term “ghost skins,” used among white supremacists to describe “those who avoid overt displays of their beliefs to blend into society and covertly advance white supremacist causes.” 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.

https://theintercept.com/2017/01/31/the-fbi-has-quietly-investigated-white-supremacist-infiltration-of-law-enforcement/



Another reason Sessions would be an absolute disaster. Sessions is their (white supremacists) man.

[Lucinda]

1. TY - Bookmarking to read tonight!

[SamKnause]

2. They need to quit being so quiet about it and shout it from the rooftops !!!!!!!!!!!!

[Eyeball_Kid]

4. This was from 2006. Trumpy/Bannon will successfully bury it.

They love white supremacists.

[n2doc]

3. They need to start with themselves. n/t

[librechik]

7. +

[Stonepounder]

11. n2doc - you beat me to it! n/t

[The Wielding Truth]

5. They are a too late with one in the white house who is directing an ignorant President.

We need a national public step in before this gets even worse. FBI, Comey, has a lot of repair work to do.

[Baitball Blogger]

6. That I can believe.

Not that they're investigating it, but that our FBI has been infiltrated.

[Iggo]

8. They should be investigating it loudly.

[Quayblue]

9. Some of us already knew this

being that we grew up in heavily policed communities where these attitudes were reflected.

I remember walking home from the bus stop/community college with textbooks in hand rather than in my backpack to prevent profiling and harassment. Still was targeted as a "crack whore".

And this was the neighborhood where Malice Green was murdered.

They sat on this for years while people were being harassed and murdered.

[octoberlib]

14. Yes, they did and it makes my blood boil. Instead, they all point their fingers at

Muslims when the majority of terrorists in this country are white, homegrown and have been at it for decades. Actually , since law enforcement agencies were first formed.

[NewJeffCT]

10. Remember when Obama first took office in 2009?

DHS, under Janet Napolitano, was heavily criticized by the right for issuing a report saying that White Supremacists and others of that ilk were the biggest terrorist threat to our country... even though she had just published a report that was finished in the waning days of the Bush administration.

[annabanana]

12. Yeah..

If I remember correctly the report was backpedaled and never heard from again. I was mad they didn't insist on it.

[octoberlib]

13. I sure do and was mad about it.