Holocaust museum shooter had senior White House adviser in sights: report

[RamboLiberal]

Source: Raw Story/Time Magazine

James von Brunn, the white supremacist who officials say shot dead a security guard at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, last year, was planning to target a senior White House adviser, Time magazine reported Thursday.

In a report on domestic extremism in the US, Time correspondent Barton Gellman dropped a bombshell: Shortly after the museum shootings, authorities learned that von Brunn had been targeting senior White House adviser David Axelrod.

"Authorities did not disclose ... how close the country had come to a seismic political event," Gellman reported.

Von Brunn, authoritative sources say, had another target in mind: White House senior adviser David Axelrod, a man at the center of Obama's circle. The President was too hard to reach, in Von Brunn's view, but that was of no consequence. "Obama was created by Jews," he wrote. "Obama does what his Jew owners tell him to do."

The episode sent a jolt through the FBI and DHS. Von Brunn had demonstrated motive, means and intent to kill one of the President's closest aides. The Secret Service assigned Axelrod a protection detail and took other, undisclosed steps to broaden its coverage. The DHS put out bulletins to state and local law-enforcement agencies on the tactics, warning signs and other lessons of the case.


Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/09/museum-shooter-white-house-advisor-sights/

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Link to Time magazine story on militias. http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2022516-1,00.html

[ck4829]

1. K&R

[Bitwit1234]

2. And you tell me that fox and Beck and Palin are not the cause

of this. Their constant pushing of hate and violence against the Democrats. If they would start prosecuting them it would stop. BUT again, you can't expect the FBI and Secret Service to prosecute a republican for anything.

[left is right]

4. If God forbid, one of these nuts go after an important Democratic congress person or cabinet member

or even the President, could a class action suit be brought against any/all of them. I don’t think a criminal action will fly but victims of drunk drivers often go after the bar that sold the alcohol

[Taverner]

7. Yes - a CIVIL case!

[onehandle]

3. Not the last gun loving right-wing extremist with 'ideas.' nt

[Taverner]

8. Guns are just tools - only as dangerous as the idiot using them

And these folks would fit that description!

[louis-t]

5. A message to Time Magazine.....

Call it what it is. It is NOT "domestic extremism", it's called "terrorism".

[DesertFlower]

6. a few years ago i tried to tell my non-jewish dentist

that we have a lot of anti-semitism in this country. he didn't believe me.

[AnnieBW]

9. Not a domestic terrorist, though

Because he wasn't a Mooslin.

[Jefferson23]

10. Hateful bigoted pathetic man. n/t