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reporters have now viewed the emails, photos, and videos on the #HunterBiden hard drive.
You fool, do you ever even read your own sources??? There's no mention anywhere of Biden's attorney wanting the laptop back although it would be appropriate for the attorney to ask to have the laptop examined by an independent source after these accusations were made. Here's your source...
DNI Ratcliffe: Russia disinformation not behind published emails targeting Biden; FBI reviewing
Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe said Monday that recently published emails purporting to document the business dealings of Hunter Biden are not connected to a Russian disinformation effort, even as federal authorities continued to review whether the material was part of such a campaign.
Ratcliffe, in an interview with Fox Business, did not elaborate on the basis of his conclusion, though he acknowledged knowing "little" about the material published by the New York Post.
The FBI, according to a person familiar with the matter, has been investigating at least in part whether the material, allegedly drawn from a laptop owned by Biden and provided to the newspaper by Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, may be tied to a Russian influence operation aimed at undercutting Biden's father and Democratic nominee Joe Biden.
More:FBI probing whether emails in New York Post story about Hunter Biden are tied to Russian disinformation
More:A tabloid got a trove of data on Hunter Biden from Rudy Giuliani. Now, the FBI is probing a possible disinformation campaign.
"Hunter Biden's laptop is not part of some Russian disinformation campaign," Ratcliffe told Fox, though quickly adding that the intelligence community "has not been involved."
According to New York Post account, the computer data had been provided to Giuliani by the owner of a Delaware computer repair shop where a laptop had been left for service last year but was never claimed by the customer.
The director said the computer is in the possession of the FBI, adding that the bureau's inquiry does not "center" on a possible Russian disinformation effort.
FBI officials have declined to comment, refusing to confirm or deny the existence of an investigation.
U.S. intelligence officials warned last month that Russia has been working to denigrate Joe Biden in advance of next month's presidential election.
The analysis, published by the chief of the National Counter-Intelligence and Security Center, also concluded that China viewed Trump as "unpredictable" and preferred that he not win another term, while Iran was working to foment division and undermine Trump in advance of the 2020 election.
Robert Costello, an attorney representing Giuiliani, has declined to provide a copy of the material for further examination, beyond what has been published in the New York Post.
The authenticity of the emails could not be determined by USA TODAY.
Representatives of the New York Post, meanwhile, have not responded to requests for comment.
The development comes less than two weeks before the 2020 election, and as Trump has pressed the Justice Department to punish Biden and other Obama administration officials for its pursuit of an investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 election.
You should have suspected something was wrong with the story when they said the emails and laptop were found by a blind computer repair guy. How does a blind guy repair computers??? The only people spreading this propaganda are what the FBI calls "useful idiots" or Russian plants. Even Trump's FBI knows this story is russian misinformation and they're focused, not on investigating Biden, but on going after Giuliani...
A tabloid got a trove of data on Hunter Biden from Rudy Giuliani. Now, the FBI is probing a possible disinformation campaign
When the New York Post published the alleged contents of a computer hard drive purporting to document the Ukrainian and Chinese business activities of Hunter Biden, the newspaper cast the information as a "smoking gun."
Enter the FBI.
Less than three weeks before one of the most contentious presidential campaigns in history, federal authorities are investigating whether the material supplied to the Post by Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, is part of a smoke bomb of disinformation pushed by Russia.
The inquiry, according to a person familiar with the matter, is at least in part, aimed at determining whether Russia has set its sights on a familiar target: Biden's father, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. The person is not authorized to comment on the matter publicly and asked not to be named in order to speak candidly...
...After months of investigation, two Republican-led Senate committees unveiled a report in September that found no evidence of wrongdoing or corrupt actions by the former vice president in connection with his son Hunter's business dealings in Ukraine.
But Trump and Giuliani have continued to lob allegations at the Democratic nominee, despite multiple investigations, including the recent GOP probes, that had found no basis for the claims...
...Explainer:Biden, allies pushed out Ukrainian prosecutor because he didn't pursue corruption cases
Giuliani, through his lawyer, declined to provide the material to USA TODAY for examination.
When Twitter initially blocked the sharing of links to the story, citing a "lack of authoritative reporting" on the origin of the source materials behind the story, the newspaper hit back in an editorial, calling the criticism "ridiculous."
The Post has not responded to requests for comment...
...The Democratic-controlled House last year approved two articles of impeachment – abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. The impeachment probe was set off by an anonymous whistleblower complaint accusing Trump of using the levers of U.S. diplomacy to try to cajole Ukraine into pursuing investigations of Biden for the president's own political benefit.
Multiple senior Trump administration officials testified that they became alarmed about a July 25, 2019, call the president had with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in which he urged his counterpart to announce an investigation into the Bidens. Administration officials also testified of concerns that Giuliani was carrying out a "shadow diplomacy" in Ukraine focused on pressuring officials to investigate Trump's political rivals.
The Republican-controlled Senate this year acquitted Trump of the charges after a trial.
Trump and Giuliani have accused Joe Biden of seeking the ouster of Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin to thwart an investigation of Burisma – a claim that independent fact checkers and investigators have debunked.
Shokin was widely and publicly viewed by international organizations such as the European Union and International Monetary Fund, as well as anti-corruption investigators in Ukraine, as an impediment to reforming the country’s culture of graft.
Biden helped to oust Shokin because the prosecutor was not aggressively pursuing corruption cases. There is no evidence of wrongdoing by Hunter Biden.
An examination of the matter by PolitiFact in 2019 said there was "no evidence to support the idea that Joe Biden advocated with his son's interests in mind. ... It's not even clear that (Burisma) was actively under investigation or that a change in prosecutors benefited it."
Last month, the two Republican-led Senate committees investigating the claims said in an 87-page report that Hunter Biden's role on the Burisma board was "problematic" but said it was "unclear" whether it ever affected U.S. foreign policy under the Obama administration...
That's strange, for a company that had no product as you claim, mCig/Bots managed to produce over $7 million in revenue in 2018 at the height of their Construction Division activity. SMH
So what? Hunter Biden is not running for President but weak minds like yours are easy prey for fake stories. Effective propaganda uses real facts and distorts them to spread misinformation. Whether or not there was a real Hunter Biden laptop, the emails were planted/changed by Russian hackers so assholes like you will believe there's something wrong. The only thing it proves is that your cult leader/president will believe Russian propaganda over what his own FBI/CIA tells him.
FBI investigating if Hunter Biden email story is linked to Russian disinformation operation
The unlikely account of how the emails surfaced raised immediate questions about Russian involvement, particularly because U.S. officials have warned that Russia — which backed Trump’s 2016 campaign through hacking and a covert social media campaign — is interfering again this year.
The episode is being investigated as part of a possible Russian influence operation, according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity to The Associated Press to discuss an ongoing matter. It underscores the extent to which Giuliani, through his activities, is a risk to a White House that spent years shadowed by a federal investigation into whether Trump associates had coordinated with Russia.
The authenticity of the emails remained unclear as of Friday, including whether they were hacked or possibly forged or both.
GOP + Russian collusion continues...
Hunter Biden laptop mystery hints at a Russian disinformation operation, source tells Insider
The appearance of Hunter Biden's laptop — full of juicy emails and embarrassing images — in the hands of President Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani and the New York Post is "too perfect," a professional East European spy chaser tells Insider.
Rudy Giuliani — Trump's lawyer — has repeatedly met with alleged Russian intelligence assets in his hunt for dirt on the Bidens.
Counterintelligence operatives have known since January that emails hacked by the Russians from the Burisma gas company that employed Hunter Biden would surface eventually. It was merely a question of when...
But no matter how the laptop, and whatever is on the hard drive, came to exist, the situation looks a lot like a classic Russian intelligence operation, according to an Estonian intelligence official with extensive experience in combating Russian spies. In a typical Russian disinformation operation, real documents are salted with forged or manipulated information and then presented in a way that news media — and social media — cannot resist.
Take the complex but clumsy way the laptop came to the Post, via a partially-sighted computer repair shop owner.
"It's just too perfect. A laptop is dropped off to a blind computer repairman in the name of Hunter Biden — in the middle of a presidential election — that happens to be filled with extensive documents along with videos of sex and drug use, and it ends up in the hands of the president's lawyer, who publicly admits to working closely with a Ukrainian official that the Trump administration itself has sanctioned as a Russian intelligence asset attempting to interfere in the presidential campaign," said the official, who cannot be named for security reasons.
mCig is still alive. It's simply been renamed to Bots. The reason it's still alive is because Paul Rosenberg steadfastly refused to take on toxic debt and has been frugal about issuing new shares over the past seven years. The company is still virtually debt free.
He floated it through contractors and through comp based incentives to private companies. Everyone got paid in the mcig scam and the strange deals he made with vitacig.
The question is moot anyway since Bots doesn't have any toxic debt and has never had any toxic debt.
I'd love to see who this private placement is with. Probably himself and will dump this on any pops for a quick double or triple
Regarding:
this provides no protection for those registered, which is the majority of toxic debt providers
Had they registered as a dealer under the ACT, they would be subject to much tighter government scrutiny, oversight and controls that have been developed to protect the investing public and their books could be turned inside out by the regulatory authorities.
SMHLMAO What difference does it make whether he's a security guard or not? Who cares? Just more GOP deflection. Your right wing tweeter accused him of somehow being tied to Democrats because he was a member of Antifa. First of all, there's no such organization as Antifa. Second, there's no proof that he's affiliated with it.
You guys are really getting desperate. LOL Next you'll be suggesting we should decide the election based on how few convicted criminals voted for Democrats versus Republicans.
Actually, you've interpreted everything in that article backwards. Had BTZI been taking toxic loans, which they haven't, they'd be better off under the SEC's actions. Their ruling enables companies that have taken toxic loans to sue their toxic lenders...
But the fun doesn’t stop there – since the 1934 Securities and Exchange Act makes these transactions void (15 US §78cc), OTC Market issuers may now be able to sue every one of their toxic convertible note lenders to rescind all of those transactions if they failed to register as a dealer under the ACT. The federal courts recognize a private right of action for issuers to not only sue to rescind those transactions (meaning the court enters a judgment nullifying the transaction), but under the 1933 Securities Act, those same issuers may have grounds to bring claims for securities fraud under 10b-5 and seek actual money damages, especially from the principles of those funds all because those groups did not register as a dealer with FINRA. Had they registered as a dealer under the ACT, they would be subject to much tighter government scrutiny, oversight and controls that have been developed to protect the investing public and their books could be turned inside out by the regulatory authorities.
From your supposed incriminating tweet...
DENVER POLICE UPDATE PLEASE DELETE YOUR INACCURATE TWEET
Update: Further investigation has determined the suspect is a private security guard with no affiliation with Antifa. Additional information will be released as it becomes available.
The pps has been trading roughly in the same range for months. PPS predictions, up or down, are just blather right now until we get some significant news. On the plus side the company has virtually zero debt and has never done toxic loans. One or more decent revenue producing contracts could get this baby moving. I expect we'll see that in the next six to twelve months if not sooner. Until then, I don't expect much pps movement either way outside the current range. JMO.
No law and order twitter excuses for this one...
13 With Ties to Right-Wing Militias Charged in Plots to Kidnap Michigan Governor, Target Police
THIRTEEN MEN WITH TIES to illegal right-wing militias are facing charges in connection with extensive plots to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, attack the state Capitol building and incite a civil war, federal and state officials announced Thursday.
Six men were charged in federal court for plotting to violently kidnap Whitmer at her vacation home with the help of explosives and firearms. The men reached out to and trained with members of an unauthorized militia group, according to an FBI affidavit unsealed Thursday, which did not name the militia group.
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel also announced gang- and terrorism-related charges Thursday against seven other men – all members of the unauthorized, far-right militia group Wolverine Watchmen – for planning to target members of law enforcement, attack the Michigan Captiol and instigate a civil war.
Demonstrators, including armed members of anti-government militia groups, stormed the Michigan Capitol on several occasions earlier this year to protest against lockdown measures put in place by Whitmer during the pandemic. President Donald Trump appeared to encourage those demonstrations in mid-April by tweeting "LIBERATE MICHIGAN!"
Federal authorities relied on confidential and undercover sources to uncover and thwart the plots that were revealed Thursday. The FBI first became aware in early 2020 through social media that a group of individuals was planning a violent overthrow of the government, according to the affidavit. The FBI also became aware in March that the unnamed militia group was attempting to obtain the addresses of local law enforcement officers to potentially target and kill them.
Some of the men charged with plotting to kidnap Whitmer met up multiple times with members of that militia group, including at a Second Amendment rally at the state Capitol in June.They also participated in training exercises with that group.
The kidnapping scheme had roots in a gathering in Dublin, Ohio, in June that was attended by more than a dozen people, including two men charged Thursday.
"The group talked about creating a society that followed the U.S. Bill of Rights and where they could be self-sufficient. They discussed different ways of achieving this goal from peaceful endeavors to violent actions," the FBI affidavit said. "Several members talked about murdering 'tyrants' or 'taking' a sitting governor."
Shortly after, a group met in the basement of a Grand Rapid business and discussed assaulting the state Capitol and destroying police vehicles. Several days later, one of the men ultimately charged, Adam Fox, described Whitmer as "this tyrant b----" and complained about the state controlling the opening of gyms during the pandemic, according to the affidavit. He also said at one point that the group would "try" the governor for "treason" ahead of the Nov. 3 election. By the end of July, the plan had loosely evolved into kidnapping Whitmer...
...The governor referenced Trump's comments at the first presidential debate last month when he told the Proud Boys to "stand back and stand by" when he was asked to condemn white supremacy.
"Hate groups heard the president's words not as a rebuke but as a rallying cry, a call to action," Whitmer said. She also said that leaders who meet with extremist groups or "stoke and contribute" to hate speech are complicit with those groups.
I share your fascination with AI. I was involved with some early AI software applications at IBM around 1990 and enjoyed the presentation on nanobots. I'm just suggesting you make it clear to readers, since this is a First Bitcoin investors board, that these biotechnologies probably have nothing to do with First Bitcoin. What may have more relevance is a discussion about the "singularity". At least this would evolve out of software not biology...
Technological Singularity
The technological singularity—also, simply, the singularity—is a hypothetical point in time at which technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible, resulting in unforeseeable changes to human civilization. According to the most popular version of the singularity hypothesis, called intelligence explosion, an upgradable intelligent agent will eventually enter a "runaway reaction" of self-improvement cycles, each new and more intelligent generation appearing more and more rapidly, causing an "explosion" in intelligence and resulting in a powerful superintelligence that qualitatively far surpasses all human intelligence.
LMAO It's the same argument because you guys keep making the same ridiculous claim over and over again. People aren't issued shares then selling them the next day on the market in some kind of scam. The market doesn't work that way. Companies issue their shares with a restricted legend. They can't be sold for six months and then the person receiving them has to go through a week or more of hoops to get them to a brokerage were they can be sold. If they have a significant award and they sell them all at once, it drives the price down and the last shares they sell will bring in significantly less that the first shares they sell. Consequently, virtually no one would be stupid enough to sell a large number of shares at one time unless the pps were tanking to begin with or the daily volume were large enough to absorb their shares. See for yourself...
Rule 144
...So quit claiming that people getting paid in shares are immediately ripping off shareholders and I'll quit making my argument. The only way they can profit on that payment is just like the rest of us (i.e. if the shares are worth more after six months than they were worth when they received them). Otherwise, they lose money and have to pay income tax on the higher value when the shares were issued to them. Whether things end badly for the rest of us has nothing to do with it.
Any significant stock payment would have been given in restricted shares. Rule 144 requires that restricted shares be held for at least six months. He would have a vested interest in making sure the pps goes up during that time.
Rule 144
Need I say...
Debunked Again!
I never heard of the Proud Boys until tuesday night's debate. Following the actions of white supremacist organizations is not my thing. But now that you ask, it's not me accusing them of being white supremacists but Trump's own Department of Homeland Security state Information Analysis (aka: fusion) Centers...
Proud Boys are a dangerous 'white supremacist' group say US agencies - Law enforcement have shown concerns about the group’s menace to minority groups and police officers, and its conspiracy theories
Files from the Blueleaks trove of leaked law enforcement documents reveal warnings that the Proud Boys, who some of the US agencies label as “white supremacists” and “extremists”, and others as a “gang”, show persistent concerns about the group’s menace to minority groups and even police officers, and its dissemination of dangerous conspiracy theories.
Repeated warnings about the Proud Boys, and descriptions of them as a dangerous white supremacist group, were issued by members of the national network of counterterrorist fusion centers. The Colorado Information Analysis Center (CIAC) showed particular, repeated concerns about the group, and their activities in that state.
In a 22-page 2019 document titled Violent Extremism in Colorado: a Reference Guide for Law Enforcement, published by CIAC, the state’s Division of Homeland Security, and the Colorado Department of Public Safety, various incidents of violence involving the Proud Boys are discussed under the heading of White Supremacist Extremism.
On page 15 of the document, the group is discussed in terms of the “threat to Colorado” from white supremacist extremists, and the “concern that white supremacist extremists will continue attacking members of the community who threaten their belief of Caucasian superiority”.
The Proud Boys is a far-right neo-fascist male-only organization that promotes and engages in political violence. It is based in the United States and has a presence in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom. The group was started as a joke in the far-right Taki's Magazine in 2016 by Vice Media co-founder and former commentator Gavin McInnes, taking its name from the song "Proud of Your Boy" from the Disney musical Aladdin. The Proud Boys emerged as part of the alt-right, but McInnes began distancing himself from the alt-right in early 2017, saying the alt-right's focus is race while his focus is what he defines as "Western values." This re-branding effort intensified after the Unite the Right rally. Since 2018, the group's leader is Enrique Tarrio.
The group believes men—especially white men—and Western culture are under siege; their views have elements of the white genocide conspiracy theory. Officially, the group rejects white supremacy, although members have participated in multiple racist events and events centered around anti-left violence, with a former member organizing the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. The organization glorifies violence and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has called it an "alt-right fight club."
In late November 2018, it was reported the FBI had classified the Proud Boys as an extremist group with ties to white nationalism. Two weeks later, at an FBI official briefing Clark County, Washington law enforcement officials on the group, denied that it was their intent to classify the entire group in this manner and ascribed the mistake to a misunderstanding. During the briefing, FBI agents suggested using websites for more information, including the SPLC resource. The official said that their intent was to characterize the possible threat from certain members of the group.
The organization has been described as a hate group by NPR's The Takeaway and the SPLC. In February 2019, despite having said that he broke his ties with the group in November 2018, McInnes filed a federal defamation suit against the SPLC over their "hate group" designation, saying that it was untrue and had damaged his career. The group has been banned by Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube.
A Biden Campaign operative in Texas is attempting to rig the 2020 election with the help of others in a massive ballot harvesting scheme, according to two private investigators who testified under oath that they have “video evidence, documentation and witnesses” to prove it.
While law enforcement agencies are reportedly investigating these potential crimes, nothing will be done about it until “well after the November 3, 2020 election” the former FBI agent said.
Twenty-six states and the District of Columbia allow someone else to return ballots on behalf of voters. Communities can designate a single person to collect ballots for the community, keeping voters with higher risks of contracting coronavirus safe in their homes.
The media promised that President Trump’s tax returns would reveal deep ties to Russia.
Didn’t happen!
LOL They may as well set the authorized shares (AS) at one trillion. It doesn't mean anything unless they actually issue them. Setting a high AS merely makes it unnecessary to raise it multiple times and have people like you criticize them for it. Their old AS was 560 million shares and needed to be raised since the outstanding shares (OS) had already surpassed 500 million and more shares were required to complete the merger with First Bitcoin. Their current AS is 2 billion shares, not 3 billion as you falsely claim, while their OS after the merger is 771,874,596 shares.
There are a number of ways to verify contracts. What you can't verify until after it's fulfilled, is whether the contract will be successfully completed. However, in the case of software development, payment isn't usually dependent on completion of an entire programming project. Rather, payments are made after certain milestones are delivered, or paid on an hourly or daily basis for consulting/programming services.
That's an interesting link. However, I think you're confusing nanotechnology with Artificial Intelligence. The first requires skills in biotechnology and molecular manipulation. The latter requires skills in software development. Bots Inc., to my knowledge, is only focused on software development. Unless you have information to the contrary, I don't see either BITCF or BTZI involved in the nanotechnology field.
Bots was recently acquired by First Bitcoin. The company is virtually debt free (i.e. no toxic loans). First Bitcoin transferred its ownership in several companies and cryptocurrencies to Bots. Meanwhile, Bot's is in the process of redirecting it's business plan toward blockchain, AI, Robotics and cryptocurrency software development.
I think most shareholders are content to wait for the next six months or more to see if the new business plan is successful. In the meantime, one or two verifiable large contracts could change the company's prospects and pps very quickly.
Fact check...
1.) Breonna Taylor was a former EMT not a current EMT - so what??
2.) Prosecutors' Plea Deal Required Drug Suspect To Name Breonna Taylor A 'Co-Defendant'
A man charged with running a drug syndicate was offered a plea deal in July if he would name Breonna Taylor, the 26-year-old Black woman who had been killed by police in her Louisville, Ky., apartment, as a member of his alleged criminal gang, according to the man's attorney.
The deal was one of several offered by prosecutors in the months after Taylor's death. All of which carried a penalty of 10 years and none of which were ultimately accepted.
Taylor was shot dead on March 13 by white Louisville Metro Police officers who had broken into her apartment at night using a "no-knock" warrant. Her death has led to nationwide protests against police brutality.
The purpose of the raid on Taylor's home was to find evidence linking her to an ex-boyfriend, Jamarcus Glover, a convicted felon with a history of drug trafficking, according to court documents.
Police didn't find any.
Now it appears prosecutors attempted to tie Taylor to a life of crime after her death.
Glover was arrested the same night Taylor was killed, in a separate raid on an alleged drug house about 10 miles away. Police say they "recovered approximately 119.032 grams (4.2 ounces) of cocaine and over 10 dosage units of opiates," according to court records.
Glover's attorney, Scott Barton, told NPR that as part of a lengthy plea negotiation, the Jefferson Commonwealth's Attorney's office offered Glover a deal that included naming Taylor as a member of his "organized crime syndicate."
Barton said that he no longer has a copy of the initial plea offer but that his client "immediately rejected anything with her name in it."
"He felt terrible about the whole thing. That's not a secret. And, you know, any type of plea that had her involved in any way was not going to be acceptable to him," Barton said.
Your side seems to be having more luck in killing cops...
Far-right ‘boogaloo boys’ linked to killing of California law officers and other violence
In the wake of the killing of two law enforcement officers in Northern California, more attention is being directed to the “boogaloo” movement, a far-right fringe group that has been tied to violence around the country.
On Tuesday, federal law enforcement officials announced they were charging Air Force Sgt. Steven Carrillo, 32, and suspected accomplice Robert A. Justus Jr., 30, in the May 29 shooting death of a federal security officer in Oakland.
Carrillo also faces state charges in the June 6 killing of a Santa Cruz sheriff’s deputy.
White supremacist groups have infiltrated US law enforcement agencies in every region of the country over the last two decades, according to a new report about the ties between police and far-right vigilante groups.
In a timely new analysis, Michael German, a former FBI special agent who has written extensively on the ways that US law enforcement have failed to respond to far-right domestic terror threats, concludes that US law enforcement officials have been tied to racist militant activities in more than a dozen states since 2000, and hundreds of police officers have been caught posting racist and bigoted social media content.
The report notes that over the years, police links to militias and white supremacist groups have been uncovered in states including Alabama, California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, Michigan, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Virginia, Washington and West Virginia.
In 2017, the FBI reported that white supremacists posed a “persistent threat of lethal violence” that has produced more fatalities than any other category of domestic terrorists since 2000. Alarmingly, internal FBI policy documents have also warned agents assigned to domestic terrorism cases that the white supremacist and anti-government militia groups they investigate often have “active links” to law enforcement officials.
Your side seems to be having more luck in killing cops...
Far-right ‘boogaloo boys’ linked to killing of California law officers and other violence
In the wake of the killing of two law enforcement officers in Northern California, more attention is being directed to the “boogaloo” movement, a far-right fringe group that has been tied to violence around the country.
On Tuesday, federal law enforcement officials announced they were charging Air Force Sgt. Steven Carrillo, 32, and suspected accomplice Robert A. Justus Jr., 30, in the May 29 shooting death of a federal security officer in Oakland.
Carrillo also faces state charges in the June 6 killing of a Santa Cruz sheriff’s deputy.
White supremacist groups have infiltrated US law enforcement agencies in every region of the country over the last two decades, according to a new report about the ties between police and far-right vigilante groups.
In a timely new analysis, Michael German, a former FBI special agent who has written extensively on the ways that US law enforcement have failed to respond to far-right domestic terror threats, concludes that US law enforcement officials have been tied to racist militant activities in more than a dozen states since 2000, and hundreds of police officers have been caught posting racist and bigoted social media content.
The report notes that over the years, police links to militias and white supremacist groups have been uncovered in states including Alabama, California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, Michigan, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Virginia, Washington and West Virginia.