DOJ is creating a new position

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Demosthenes
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DOJ is creating a new position

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To address the domestic terrorism threat from the sovereign and white supremacist movements.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/doj ... on-n444436
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Re: DOJ is creating a new position

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Not to criticize, but isn't this already addressed in the Dept of Homeland Security?
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Re: DOJ is creating a new position

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DHS can't take anything to court.

Anything (outside of the secret court) has do be done by DOJ.
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Re: DOJ is creating a new position

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FBI can line up a ton of extremist cases for prosecution, but if DOJ doesn't see the need or urgency, those cases get tossed into a storage bin.

The Bundy standoff was 18 months ago...

What I wrote about the Bundy supporters six months ago.
The legal repercussions for these acts now depend on the political will of the Department of Justice, an agency that has historically dealt with Bundy-related threats and harassment with all of the backbone and resolve of an over-cooked noodle, leaving twenty years of confrontations and threats against land management employees unpunished. The DOJ’s past inactivity sent a message to these employees that they were expendable, told Bundy and his family that his years of threats were acceptable, and in the end, put a few hundred lives at risk under a freeway last April.

If the DOJ acts responsibly, the Bundy standoff should ultimately result in a very long list of criminal indictments. If the agency shrugs, as it has too many times in the past twenty years, future confrontations involving the militias, sovereign citizens, and other anti-government extremist groups won’t be as “peaceful” as what happened at Bundy Ranch.
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Re: DOJ is creating a new position

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The Bundy standoff was 18 months ago...
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