Coast Guard Lieutenant Arrested, Labeled ‘Domestic Terrorist’ With Hit List of Liberal Politicians and Journalists
A U.S. Coast Guard lieutenant who was allegedly planning numerous acts of domestic terrorism targeting liberal politicians and journalists was arrested Friday on gun and drug charges, according to court documents obtained by the George Washington University Program on Extremism.
Federal authorities have filed a motion for detention pending trial for Lt. Christopher Paul Hasson, who they say “intends to murder innocent civilians on a scale rarely seen in this country.”
Hint about the importance of the case was in the opening paragraph. “The defendant is a domestic terrorist bent on committing acts dangerous to human life” pic.twitter.com/QUZk2j92u2
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Investigators searched his home and found more than a dozen firearms and more than a thousand rounds of ammunition in a small basement apartment in Maryland.
Hasson identified himself in his writings as a “long time White Nationalist, having been a skinhead 30 plus years ago before my time in the military.” He wrote that he “fully supports the idea of a white homeland.”
He also had a spreadsheet, created in January, with a list of media and political targets, including prominent politicians such as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Democratic presidential candidates Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, Kamala Harris, and Kirsten Gillibrand, and freshman Democratic Reps. Ilhan Omar and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. (Read more from “Coast Guard Lieutenant Arrested, Labeled ‘Domestic Terrorist’ With Hit List of Liberal Politicians and Journalists” HERE)
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