Remember this FBI report done last year during the Bush administration?

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http://deepbackground.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/07/16/1202484.aspx

White-power groups recruiting from military

Posted on Wednesday, July 16, 2008 2:42 PM ET
Filed Under: Terrorism, Iraq
By Jim Popkin, NBC News Senior Investigative Producer

White-supremacist groups have recruited 203 people who served in the U.S. military or who claim to have U.S. military backgrounds, according to a new report by the FBI. The unclassified FBI Intelligence Assessment, issued last week and obtained by NBC News, cautions that white-power extremists are trying hard to recruit active-duty soldiers and recent veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

“White supremacist extremists hope to revitalize the white supremacist movement by exploiting antigovernment sentiment among opponents of the overseas conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan,” the FBI report states. It adds, however, that the effort is not going particularly well. “Although some veterans of these conflicts have joined the extremist movement, they have not done so in numbers sufficient to stem declines among major national extremist organizations, nor has their participation resulted in a more violent extremist movement,” the FBI writes.

The report, titled “White Supremacist Recruitment of Military Personnel since 9/11,” compiles statistics from hundreds of FBI cases from October 2001 to May 2008. It finds that U.S. military experience “is found throughout the white supremacist extremist movement.” It adds: “FBI reporting indicates extremist leaders have historically favored recruiting active and former military personnel for their knowledge of firearms, explosives, and tactical skills and their access to weapons and intelligence in preparation for an anticipated war against the federal government, Jews, and people of color.” snip

FBI Stats:

Skinhead groups and the extremist organizations National Alliance and the National Socialist Movement account for 72 percent of the total number of successfully recruited veterans (or men who claim to be U.S. veterans.) “According to sensitive and reliable source reporting in October 2006, the National Socialist Movement received a number of queries from active duty Army and Marine personnel stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan expressing interest in joining the organization or inquiring about chapters located near domestic US military bases,” the FBI states. “Whether as a result of group recruitment efforts or self-recruitment by active military personnel sympathetic to white supremacist extremist causes, FBI information derived from reliable, multiple sources documents white supremacist extremist activity occurring at some military bases.”

The authors also state that supremacist leaders have encouraged followers who lack histories of neo-Nazi activity to infiltrate the military as “ghost skins,” in order to recruit and receive training for the benefit of the extremist movement.

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1. Now all they need is a hitler type person

you can bet it will be a repug!

[malaise]

2. Send it to Joe Scum

Apparently he never read this report. Send it to KO so he can mash down Joe Scum's lies.

[my2sense]

3. Yeah - he needs to stop with his "outrage" n/t

[my2sense]

4. Seems folks from MSNBC forgot about this article n/t

[Ilsa]

5. K&R. Braindead Rethugs and and extremists think military

folk are always on their side. Fine, let them. They won't see it coming when those people tell them "you're on your own" and turn them in to the FBI for acts of treason.

[Norquist Nemesis]

6. But, but, but...it's Obama that's spying on these groups!

Wingnuts foiled again!