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Kirby says it's tough for DOD to get details on extremism in its ranks or recruits because civilian law enforcement has the data. Last year, DOD received 143 notifications from FBI, 68 of them pertained to domestic extremism.
Kirby "it's hard to get a perfect grasp on it" to know all potential recruits who hold beliefs but don't acdt... or those that got into military but then radicalized while in the military... or conduct that may be a violent crime, but not clear if motivation was extremism...
Says that's why Austin and Milley already have met and discussed it and want to do more, have ordered up better info.
How common and old is extremism in the military's ranks? I wrote my first story just months into first joining the Pentagon press corps... 12 years ago: https://www.stripes.com/news/watchdog-group-dozens-of-active-duty-troops-found-on-neo-nazi-site-1.93224 …
Boy is that a freaking dodge.
If people in the ranks are filling the data of civilian law enforcement, it seems to me those data should be forwarded, along the lines of informing parents of what their kids are up to, so too the military has responsibilities.
In cold war, there were lists of groups you couldn't belong to. I read that Oathkeepers has a billboard near the front gate of Ft. Hood. We are flat footed on an obvious threat...again.
It's not fucking hard to see all the grunts buying dont tread on me flags sold at the PX to place next to their big igloo morale patches on their backpacks/plate carriers/battle belts
What did the others relate to?
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