Two retired LPD officers named in Oath Keepers data leak

[kpete]

LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) — Two retired Lafayette Police Department officers are named in a recent leak of Oath Keepers emails and membership logs.

Distributed Denial of Open Secrets — a non-profit "devoted to enabling the free transmission of data in the public interest," according to the group's website — recently leaked about 5 gigabytes of data from the servers of the Oath Keepers.

The Oath Keepers are a far-right, anti-government group that targets current and former military and law enforcement members. At least 26 Oath Keepers have been arrested in connection to last year's Jan. 6 Capitol riots, including the group's founder, Stewart Rhodes, who is facing trial on federal conspiracy charges.


News 18 isn't naming the retired officers identified in the leak because they haven't been arrested or charged with a crime, and were retired at the time of their affiliation with the group.

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[pwb]

1. We are all better off with them retired.

All drawing pensions from the governments they hate. Lock them all up. Name names. Fuck them right back.

[Kid Berwyn]

2. Lot of LEO have a lot of explaining to do.

UNREDACTED FBI DOCUMENT SHEDS NEW LIGHT ON WHITE SUPREMACIST INFILTRATION OF LAW ENFORCEMENT

A 2006 intelligence assessment reveals that officials had concerns about the infiltration of police departments for years but failed to warn the public.

Alice Speri
The Intercept, September 29 2020

THE FBI HAS long been concerned about the infiltration of law enforcement by white supremacist groups and its impact on police abuse and tolerance of racism, the unredacted version of a previously circulated document reveals.

The FBI threat assessment report was released by Rep. Jamie Raskin, chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform’s Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Subcommittee, ahead of a hearing about the white supremacist infiltration of local police departments scheduled for Tuesday.

A heavily redacted version of the 2006 document had previously been published, one of a handful of documents revealing federal officials’ growing concern with white supremacists’ “historical” interest in “infiltrating law enforcement communities or recruiting law enforcement personnel.” A different internal document obtained by The Intercept in 2017 had also noted that “domestic terrorism investigations focused on militia extremists, white supremacist extremists, and sovereign citizen extremists often have identified active links to law enforcement officers.”

The unredacted version of the first document sheds further light on the FBI’s concerns, as early as 2006, about “self-initiated efforts by individuals, particularly among those already within law enforcement ranks, to volunteer their professional resources to white supremacist causes with which they sympathize.”

“Having personnel within law enforcement agencies has historically been and will continue to be a desired asset for white supremacist groups seeking to anticipate law enforcement interest in and actions against them,” the report notes in a section that was previously redacted.

Continues…

https://theintercept.com/2020/09/29/police-white-supremacist-infiltration-fbi/

Weird how Corporate McPravda failed to follow up on this story.

[2naSalit]

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