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In 2009 during Obama’s first term, TX-10 Rep Mike McCaul claimed a report showing how far right terrorists recruited former soldiers was "absurd".
Since then, the report has been vindicated over and over again.
Since then, the report has been vindicated over and over again.
In 2019, the Department of Justice reported that an active soldier soldier leaked sensitive information to an occult Nazi group and conspired to commit murder.
In 2012, a Nazi in US uniform was found running guns and running a Nazi paramilitary training camp.
That same year, four Nazi soldiers conspired to murder the President and overthrow the government. They nurdered someone to cover up their plot.
Images of soldiers in Afghanistan in front of a Nazi flag suggest radicalization may happen inside ranks, or that the military ends up recruiting these troops and connecting them to one another. It's a problem.
5 years back, VICE reported that the KKK was actively recruiting former US soldiers.
These are all real problems that Mike McCaul called "absurd" because they did not fit his political motives at the time. It makes sense he would later shut down talk of far dight terror on a committee hearing he ran.
(That was right after McCaul released a statement on Charlottesville so weak he would have to release a second one denouncing white supremacist terror. It didn't occur to him to be explicit about it in the firsf place.
McCaul has a gaping blind spot on far right violence & white supremacists, whether they are Nazis, the Klan, or any other kind. It's an ongoing trend, just like the problem itself. Far right violence is a problem. Implying otherwise is absurd, as is McCaul's history on the issue.
