From a new times, I'm like about this today, despite repeated warnings over the past two decades, federal law enforcement officials have ignored the threat of violence from right. Extremists. Now have no idea how to stop it's Thursday December third, its MID August, one seventeen and there's a police, Lieutenant Name Dan Stout, JANET right. Man is beating writer for the Times magazine who is sitting. Living room and gains will Florida watching tv, but I was doing chores around the home and other new channels on and slipping around

then good afternoon we're coming on the internet with breaking news from Charlottesville Virginia. That is suddenly he can. I ever body started preparing the protest and starlit still air and ideas that down and started watching the events watching people that are carrying long goons guys with the flames through guys with flagpole sphere? Being violent protest here may have an and I was like- probably everyone Else- just shot socks and he was also just really perplexed law enforcement officers wondering where were the officers. Why weren't they engaging? Why was this level of

I was being allowed in new unsure as he is watching over this play out. He hears on tv that the party really just about pull the rug out from underneath my ok and whereas Richard Africa, Richard Spencer, who is one of the key organizers of the event, Richard Spencer, over speak at the University of Lord engage with because the game is coming to his town. Next, we'll take a stand, anywhere and everywhere. You're gonna have to get used to it, point Dan goes: oh my god my god. This is coming my town, and then he just knows that the only thing I can think of what we're not ready

You know what we're not prepared by the also guys, you know what who's ever problem. This is gonna, be I felt sorry for that and on Monday morning he shows up for work and his police chief says you know down there you're gonna, be our mobile feel forced guy? Basically, you are in charge riot control. So as the guy in charge of preparing for this Richards answer speech in gains will what's the first thing that he does so first thing we started trying to do is what is the active intelligence that is out there? He goes to anything whatever files, his own, We may have which isn't much, who were these people that we're just a scarlet? Does anybody can tell me more about it? He's Ngos to Florida Department of LAW enforcement he reaches out to the FBI. There was not a whole lot of good clarify,

active intelligence that anyone from the state level or the federal level could offer us and then his studies, videos from Charlottesville, particularly those people who are being very violent and he goes back to the state authorities and says Anybody have any clue about any of these people. We were getting nothing nothing and it was just kind of shocking that there was nothing there and so he's basically reached out to every authority above him on this. And federal level and gotten nothing. This should have been something that I believe we should have had some information on, and it was just gonna baffling to me that there was this Wait, there's a bermuda triangle of intelligence. So didn't. Why did this happen? Why is there almost no intelligence on the old right through. Interestingly enough, there are you

to be a lot of scrutiny of the far right back in the nineteen Ninetys? And the pivot point was it was the deadliest terror attacks aimed right at the heart of America, a carbon today all but demolish the? U S, government building it downtown Oklahoma City. You know to ninety five Oklahoma City arming and at least fifty children were in a day care centres. On the second floor, I know better my death glass all round one suspects according to our resources in custody. Now, where do we go with me to buy a guy named Timothy Mcveigh, Roquat John DOE number, one, the FBI Scarce a former soldier who had cycle actually through a number of far right ideology, right wing, white, supremacist group to ultimately come up with a plan, and with a couple of others to bomb the more federal,

being in Oklahoma City, which killed a hundred and sixty people, including a number of children. This cowardly bomb was designed to send a message that no one no places safe. It sadly succeeded, and so after Oklahoma City, the FBI and the deejay, they sent FBI agents into the field to infiltrate as militia groups, they arrested people in a kind of succeeded and driving the far right to some degree underground nine eleven happens, and then what happens after that is Robert more, who was then FBI, director and other senior national security officials across the entire government. They direct Oliver agents to focus their energies on this new mission, which is countering islamic extremism

a broad and in the United States and people, are talking about Timothy Mcveigh anymore. Now the entire national security apparatus is focused on preventing and other September But there's one guy who's been studying white supremacist movements inside the Department of Homeland Security. His name is Johnson was hired in two thousand and five to come over and head up a team of analyse that looked at domestic. Now islamic extremism, and what do we need to know about jobs? So Johnson is actually pretty straight arrow he's in evil scout. He was raised, a Mormon he's a registered Republican and he comes into age. Ass focused domestic terrorism analysis. I was originally called alone, Ranger at D just for about a year, so any put together a small team. We looked at the wide range of domestic street

movements that we have here in the United States. These can span the far right of the political spectrum or the far left of the political spectrum and that team starts looking at left wing organizations that the government has designated as domestic extremist groups like horrifically radical environmentalists, animal rights organisations that have, designated, as actually the governments for one domestic terrorism threat in two thousand and five so by two thousand and seven Bush administration is almost over and Darrow gets a call one day from a friend of his on the capital police. And there are the people that protect members of Congress and they called arrow, and they tell him. We have this first term. The lack democratic senator who is about has announced that he is running for president and asked us to monitor internet

sites for extremists, chatter, involving any threats to then Senator Barack Obama, so Johnson has ever heard of a bomb. A and and he's also heard nothing because white supremacist groups have been fairly quiet during this period of time, so he goes to his little tea. Immense is let's, let's look around and see what's out there, let's see if there's any threats, if there's any kind of Chad, on these message or right and what he finds remain: slim foreigners and fellow white people throughout the world. We did see an increase in threats by white supremacist. Desertification of our core bob is there's this race, vibrant of conquerors, far right movement, together along Rachel, LE bad unbeknownst to him, and many others has been having this incomplete renaissance online. I think so you like to generally would wake up a lot of our people and, of course, Obama winds, then no white, Americans

Our really gonna realise where they stand was disturbing, and we decided to start putting some assessment. An analysis behind this chatter so can, as Darrell starts to look into this, and he starts seeing this movement gaining steam on the right. What role does Obama planet Obama is the greatest recruitment tool for the far right and not just NEO nazis or white supremacist racists, but for like a whole network of far right time. And as two thousand eight moves forward, Obama will win. The Iowa democratic carcasses are dramatic Obama to win the Illinois Democratic, Reimer Old Colorado, Fox NEWS projects, Morocco,

is the winner of the regime in Lithuania, South Carolina, the rocket Obama has effectively clinched the democratic presidential nomination ever seen. An african American we'd major party. This contest this race for them There is now a real recognition that this guy could actually become our president and as Obama gain momentum. So did the far right movement I really believe that the of dogma campaign is now only fuel by black racist, Anna, coarse and Jews demoralize to have very world's greatest military power, headed up by a apply there. Our messages here for both whites and for the Republican Party, the number of white supremacist postings, begins

increase in increasing you just see this uptake and white supremacist and far right activity. Texas rises have been fighting NEO Nazi propaganda attached and newspapers during their bright young. Today, a NEO Nazi group made another stop in the matter of the number of people. Joining militias is on the rise of ordinary, soon and NEO Nazi rally before this year through, I think you do Ciba Geigy K, NEO Nazi member, showing up to rallies only a tiny immigration and other issues. We saw the ranks of those rally swell dramatically, leading up to the election Everson. We go, someplace, withdraw the crew members everywhere and then. You'll see, change has gone through a man, and we now know who are rulers are as always.

Happens when a Democrat becomes. President whites didn't get the man they want. The largest white supremacist website on the internet has its best day. We saw a huge increase in membership to the largest new Nazi website on the internet called stormed front. I have already had five times traffic. I've ever had a mission of work are servers, candid and how to keep up with it. So what is Darrell Johnson do with all this information he's been gathering about this growing movement after Obama is elected. The Johnson and his team have been steadily compiling all of their findings in two a report and the new Department of Homeland Security Chief, JANET and potato is very, very interested in whatever it might be going on on the far right. She was very much aware that,

the threats made to Obama during the campaign and she's really nervous about what could potentially happen to Obama, and so she asked Johnson what's up with the far right. Are we seeing a rise in right wing extremism and, if so, what's causing it. So, Darrell who's been working on. This report now takes everything. He's learned, puts it together and like a greatest heads and briefs JANET Napoletano. Yes, actually quite. Formal, it's called a desk side briefing where you have a manager sitting at the head of a conference table then seated around the com, table. There was myself who was to the left of secretary to politicians, and there were people for

and out around the edges of the room listening to the breathing in this breathing. He lays it out that, because of the election of the first by president, because of the ongoing financial crisis and because of the wars, Iraq and Afghanistan, and this really large number veterans that are now home and disillusioned. The far right is present What kind of a unique opportunity they have all of these factors that can help drive recruitment interested guess she did she flip through the pages of the briefing supplies she her head several times in agreement with what we were saying. She thanked to set the end and thought it was a very well presented breathing when they finished the you know they move forward with the report it went.

Various reviews went through vetting. I remember going home when receiving a text message from my supervisor congratulating me on a job well done so that workers out Darrell goes home loan behold his I'm driving than my minivan I had radio on in a news programme came on. What is the purpose normally of these assessments and how unique is it to get one like this? It's very unique and at the very threatening itself, but because I d just had released this report that was spying on conservatives and demonizing Republicans. Well, I'm afraid that fear that the signal that, if you're, going to protest against Obama, you gotta know who you are, and this kind of intimidation and so on American, like wholly crap you're Talkin, about report that I just wrote. I couldn't believe it and the next thing you now,

I get to work early got their Monday and utter chaos had broken out in the office of the weekend. It's beginning to have sort of more mainstream. Conservative size speak out, get shot down, What some say the government is doing right now to silence its critics. You disagree with that liberal tat. The president Obama has taken the country down. You may soon catch the attention of the Department of Homeland Security. There are no Timothy Mcveigh is out there right. Now we already not extreme, as they are the extremists, the op centre was calling because they were being inundated with phone calls and it also makes its we to Congress. Has this homeland security secretary got absolutely stark reading me, it would just shock. You do know that she is warning not of Al Qaeda. Audible summer Bin Laden, she's warning people about right wing, radical domestic terrorism. Since

and this being a small government conservative, make one a right wing. Extremist most Thus we consider ourselves, conservatives see there as a real slap in the face. This was always couched as the Obama administration is looking. To monitor and Sir Value the Obama administration is calling all of you write sympathizing individuals in our country potential terrorists, because you support the antiabortion movement because you are a returning veteran, you could be a potential terrorists, it filled the timing is ordinary, its two thousand and nine democratic control, the White House, the Senate,

and the House of Representatives- and it feels like this- is being picked up as an oppositional strategy for the right yeah. I think that's actually what was going on what was happening in the background here was. The tea party was beginning to use, saw this kind of opposition to Obama and to this entire government. Now that's democratically lad right and they found in this report a perfect kind of weapons, a weapon to hang everything on and they used it, and so how do people at the Department of Homeland Security how they respond to all of this pressure and its backlash to this report? I think everybody

take a deep breath. I think there was a lot of Washington Span going on yesterday about this report. So Nepal tunnel herself, is under fires. There are calls for her resign, easier, routine intelligence assessments. They're, not accusatory are meant to be accusatory on the politicians who initially tried to defend the report, number of people, including the commander of the American Legion of S, sure to apologize to bats. Are you standing by those comments? Well, today, to that extent, veterans read it as an accusation, and there is an apology is, but she gave to this political pressure rather than stand up for the intelligence assessment. She apologized the veterans so within a month or so that reports release the age ass, sort of quiet? A recent said they basically take it back. Yes, because of its political, storing up, and so what happens to tail Johnson's group and to this commitment they have to studying the far right inside it.

If on the security. So after this report is rescinded, there is now a kind of feeling with indeed ass it there in the hot seat that they're going to be scrutinised. Yes, who initially they stopped Oliver work. They stopped all the intelligence reports, we were writing and so Johnson and his group earnest, told this is kind of lay low for while is a temporary set back or wait till the the backlash conic wells and we will re, constitute your efforts, but it becomes fairly clear to them. Within a short amount of time that the kind of exclusive work on domestic terrorism in far right domestic terrorism in particular, is gonna, go away and so We were eventually shut down and real I to do other work, including looking Et Al Qaeda. Basically, there sidelined and within a year he decides to leave. Data Darrell leaves the edge. Yes, we'll sense. I live

in the majority of the original team members left there single analysed once again doing it for a short period of time, and then I think they plus up the effort by couple of contractors for one year and in that contract ride on their back down the WAN and now we're current none zero into this team which, the only eighteen inside it,

what of homeland security to be studying this right, when the crimson thread basically is decimated right. That kind of dedicated intensive analytical focus on the issue, kind of went away, never came back, so what happened? Was the administration decided? This is too politically charged, and so they took the term right wing extremism and just sort of stopped using it all together and what they substituted was violent extremism which concluded behaviour, not ideology and money to train police officers. Money to do studies on these groups and on the movement itself had gone away from everything. You're saying, there's a pretty straight line from the stage s report

diminished capacity to study the right wing extremism that resulted from his report to dance stout who we started our conversation talking about trying to plan for one of these rallies in Florida and finding basically a black hole where he was hoping to find a reservoir of intelligence and preparation and planet right. Nobody told me There are jobs and I would think somewhere in between me and him there's been some when they could say hey. You should maybe talk this guy, but nobody knew to put me in touch with that guy. So without that- kind of intelligence. The only recourse to me like danced out had was too factually turn his town into a police state. Six hundred troopers from the floor highway patrol came five hundred and fifty deputies from throughout the state an additional five hundred national guard. You know snipers on the roof, he had helicopter and it cost half a million.

Hers and who has that kind of resource and really is that what you want from years? That's my town on the town I grew up in. I am the police and I dont want to live in a police state and weak, near had to turn it into that. To successfully pull this off that effectively, we have to turn our communities into fortresses to protect. You know against violence breaking out. You know that we should be able to in some ways prevent. So where does all this leave our capacity to counter right wing extremists in the United States. What is it going to take to get the government to really engage with it study? It understand it. I think the first thing is to stop denying it annexed

that very violent people within our community. We need to look at what their problems are. We need to understand. Who they are, what motivates them and then figure out a strategy but we have not even got into a place where we're frankly looking at them after Charlottesville. There was this aid. See NEWS Washington, Post Paul. That said that twenty Two million Americans believe that it is perfectly acceptable to hold white supremacist or NEO Nazi views So do not look at. It is really shocking. Just thank you very much Iraq.

At least eleven people are dead and six more wounded after a man walked into a synagogue nor downtown Pittsburgh with an assault rifle and three handguns. He walked in and said: oh geez, die. A white gunmen stormed into a Bible study at a manual Naomi historically black, and rescued and charged with sending a series of explosive devices. Thirteen idea his charges being the gun, man who shot fired black languid land on quote, shooting bombing, the occupants of black churches was preparation for a race is show the authors, hatred, the blacks Hispanics get out of my country, ITALY. This We say something called in a bomb threat to the nation of Islam MILES Ba just found a brain poster of Oklahoma City Marbre, Timothy Mcveigh there's just so much hate in this country.

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