Pentagon report reveals disturbing details about White supremacists in the ranks

[Dennis Donovan]

https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/24/politics/pentagon-report-white-supremacists/index.html

By Ellie Kaufman and Oren Liebermann, CNN

Updated 10:10 PM ET, Wed February 24, 2021

White supremacists are active in the military and offers recommendations to better identify domestic extremists and prevent them from serving.

It details an instance of a former National Guardsman who is a member of a dangerous neo-Nazi group bragging about openly discussing extremist views while serving and separately describes service members describing how they recognize fellow White supremacists by their fascist tattoos and T-shirt logos.

While the report, commissioned by Congress and dated October 2020, concluded that extremist views were not widespread and identified "a low number of cases in absolute terms," it underlines the urgency of the problem because "individuals with extremist affiliations and military experience are a concern to U.S. national security because of their proven ability to execute high-impact events."

Roll Call was first to report on the Pentagon's findings.

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[crickets]

1. "a low number of cases in absolute terms"

What does this phrase mean?

[Hermit-The-Prog]

3. It means the percentage and distribution is scary -- they're everywhere.

[Hortensis]

2. The dangerous ones of course are officers without tattoos and

clever enough to have been keeping their extremist and subversive views private.

Just watched Seven Days in May with Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas. The avid crowds cheering four-star General James Matoon Scott were supposed to be the same sorts who cheered Joe McCarthy and Adolf Hitler, in real life. And of course, later, Trump.