A white supremeicist with security clearance-what could possibly be wrong with that? [View all]

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

There's Trump's America for you. Why should taking part in hate group marches deny you security clearance, right? I mean who here among us hasn't dabbled in violence and hatred when we're not working on sensitive government projects. Apparently Northrup Grumman is just fine with his after work activities.

He Is a Member of a Violent White Supremacist Group. So Why Is He Working for a Defense Contractor With a Security Clearance?

There likely isn’t such a thing as a “typical” violent white extremist in America in 2018. Still, Michael Miselis — a University of California, Los Angeles doctoral student with a U.S. government security clearance to work on sensitive research for a prominent defense contractor — makes for a pretty unusual case.

For months, ProPublica and Frontline have been working to identify the white supremacists at the center of violent demonstrations across the country, including the infamous Unite the Right rally last August in Charlottesville, Virginia. The Rise Above Movement, a Southern California group that expresses contempt for Muslims, Jews, and immigrants, became a focus of that effort. ProPublica and Frontline were able to quickly identify a number of the group’s leaders, and find evidence that put them in the middle of violence in Charlottesville and Berkeley, California, among other places.

Read the rest here: https://www.propublica.org/article/michael-miselis-rise-above-movement-white-supremacist-group-northrop-grumman