How a Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias - ProPublica

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7. The FBI has been actively investigating and going after rightwing militia groups since the early 1990s.

Violent armed rightwing militias are a relatively recent phenomenon in this country. The FBI reported that in the 1990s right-wing extremism overtook left-wing terrorism as the most dangerous domestic terrorist threat to the country. The FBI has been investigating these groups for more than thirty years.

The FBI was investigating white supremacists in police departments nearly twenty years ago, in 2006. The FBI was investigating rightwing militias when Timothy McVeigh perpetrated the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. The FBI was investigating and conducted the siege of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco in 1993. The FBI was investigating and involved in the Ruby Ridge standoff in 1992.

The bad old days of Hoover's FBI primarily persecuting leftwing anti-war and civil rights groups ended over fifty years ago.