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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNBC News: A U.S. Army soldier has been charged with giving classified information about U.S. troops
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Renew Deal
(81,855 posts)What a stupid thing to do.
Brother Buzz
(36,416 posts)At this point, we don't even know if the soldier was stationed overseas. Hell, he could be a pencil pusher deep in the catacombs of the Pentagon.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)be interesting to see who this dude really is. Not sure I see a run of the mill christofascist soldier doing such a thing unless he was a hard core bigot.
qazplm135
(7,447 posts)for the training and experience. I would be surprised if white supremacist groups didn't do the same.
Aristus
(66,316 posts)It's as if the years 1939-1945 never happened in Poland...
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)The ramp general?
(Ok, obviously very serious if true.)
LakeVermilion
(1,040 posts)malaise
(268,931 posts)SeattleVet
(5,477 posts)Total sweetheart, it seems. Gave stuff to Neo-Nazis for them to pass on to ISIS and other groups? Looks like they've had their eyes on him for a while and stopped some bad shit last month.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-army-soldier-charged-terrorism-offenses-planning-deadly-ambush-service-members-his-unit
(much more at link)
The Department of Justice announced today the unsealing of an indictment charging Ethan Melzer, 22, of Louisville, Kentucky, for allegedly planning an attack on his U.S. Army unit by sending sensitive details about the unit including information about its location, movements, and security to members of an extremist organization named Order of the Nine Angles (O9A), an occult-based neo-Nazi and white supremacist group. Melzer is charged with conspiring and attempting to murder U.S. nationals, conspiring and attempting to murder military service members, providing and attempting to provide material support to terrorists, and conspiring to murder and maim in a foreign country. The FBI and the U.S. Army thwarted Melzers plot in late-May 2020, and the FBI arrested Melzer on June 10, 2020. The case is assigned to U.S. District Judge Gregory Woods.
As the indictment lays out, Ethan Melzer plotted a deadly ambush on his fellow soldiers in the service of a diabolical cocktail of ideologies laced with hate and violence, said Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers. Our women and men in uniform risk their lives for our country, but they should never face such peril at the hands of one of their own. The National Security Division is proud to support the efforts of those who disrupted this planned attack and to seek justice for these acts.
As alleged, Ethan Melzer, a private in the U.S. Army, was the enemy within. Melzer allegedly attempted to orchestrate a murderous ambush on his own unit by unlawfully revealing its location, strength, and armaments to a neo-Nazi, anarchist, white supremacist group, said Acting U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss for the Southern District of New York. Melzer allegedly provided this potentially deadly information intending that it be conveyed to jihadist terrorists. As alleged, Melzer was motivated by racism and hatred as he attempted to carry out this ultimate act of betrayal. Thanks to the efforts of the agents and detectives of the JTTF, our partners in the Departments of Defense and State, and the career prosecutors of this office, a hate-fueled terrorist attack against American soldiers has been thwarted.
Indictment:
https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1287731/download
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Sounds like they have plenty to put him safely away for a long time. Thanks, SeattleVet.