Thanks to @DavidNeiwert for writing about my latest report on white supremacy and far-right militancy in law enforcement. David is one of the most knowledgable journalists writing about the far-right and even covered my work as an FBI agent in the 1990s. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/9/3/1974810/--Those-that-work-forces-are-too-often-connected-to-the-racist-far-right-report-finds
Since my report came out, an intelligence official filed allegations that DHS leaders ordered him to downplay the threat from white supremacists in intelligence products pushed out to state and local law enforcement to fit the admin's political narrative: https://www.thedailybeast.com/whistleblower-dhs-hyped-antifa-soft-pedaled-white-supremacist-threat
So it shouldn't be surprising to see racial disparities in protest arrests, as in Portland: https://www.courthousenews.com/black-people-nearly-twice-as-likely-as-whites-to-be-arrested-at-portland-protests/
Or that law enforcement often fails to properly respond to violence committed by far-right militants: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/08/22/portland-police-far-right-protest/
As a former FBI agent who worked cases against white supremacists and far-right militants it is particularly frustrating to see law enforcement officials sympathizing with these groups, not least because far-right militants often target police: https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article196423174.html
My report is here: https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/hidden-plain-sight-racism-white-supremacy-and-far-right-militancy-law
David's book "In God's Country" covers militia activities throughout the 1990s, and includes a chapter on one of my FBI cases: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36139.In_God_s_Country
For a deeper look at how racism and political bias at the FBI infects its work, see my book, published last year by the @thenewpress https://thenewpress.com/books/disrupt-discredit-divide
And my 2015 congressional testimony regarding reforming the FBI's whistleblower protections: https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/testimony-improving-fbi-whistleblower-protections