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Leaked Report Profiles Military, Police Members of Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs
The Intercept ^ | 5/22/2015 | Jana Winter and Jordan Smith

Posted on 05/23/2015 5:30:48 PM PDT by PapaBear3625

Nuclear power plant technicians, senior military officers, FBI contractors and an employee of “a highly-secretive Department of Defense agency” with a Top Secret clearance. Those are just a few of the more than 100 people with sensitive military and government connections that law enforcement is tracking because they are linked to “outlaw motorcycle gangs.”

A year before the deadly Texas shootout that killed nine people on May 17, a lengthy report by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives detailed the involvement of U.S. military personnel and government employees in outlaw motorcycle gangs, or OMGs. A copy of the report was obtained by The Intercept.

The report lays out, in almost obsessive detail, the extent to which OMG members are represented in nearly every part of the military, and in federal and local government, from police and fire departments to state utility agencies. Specific examples from the report include dozens of Defense Department contractors with Secret or Top Secret clearances; multiple FBI contractors; radiological technicians with security clearances; U.S. Department of Homeland Security employees; Army, Navy and Air Force active-duty personnel, including from the special operations force community; and police officers.

(Excerpt) Read more at firstlook.org ...


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KEYWORDS: bikers; copcycle; criminals; motorcyclegangs; waco; wacobikers
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To: TexasGator

If you want to don the specific kind of riding regalia that identifies you as another 1% badass, yes you do.

I thought that was anathema to you. And I don’t do that either. What is the worry? Are you envious? Of that riff raff?


321 posted on 05/24/2015 6:06:31 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Salamander

The buzzard was doing a very poor job of it. Armadillos have a very tough outer cover, even dead ones.


322 posted on 05/24/2015 6:10:17 PM PDT by Rides_A_Red_Horse (Why do you need a fire extinguisher when you can call the fire department?)
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To: Rides_A_Red_Horse

Well that’s depressing.


323 posted on 05/24/2015 6:11:24 PM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

“What payola are you getting from Barack? Including federalized Swat programs.”

Obama is about taking down the local police departments. He would never fund me.

OTOH, why do the local bike clubs pay the extortion money to the Bandidos, HA’s, Mongols, Outlaws ....?


324 posted on 05/24/2015 6:11:33 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: HiTech RedNeck

“And I don’t do that either.”

You don’t pay dues to the local CoC?


325 posted on 05/24/2015 6:13:15 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: TexasGator

He’d gladly fund you as long as you sign on to his Fedbeast program.


326 posted on 05/24/2015 6:17:43 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: TexasGator

I don’t go around dressing like a badass and then complain about what happens when meeting real badasses.


327 posted on 05/24/2015 6:18:22 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Salamander

Maybe he could call in some woodpeckers for help?


328 posted on 05/24/2015 6:19:26 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck; Salamander

If the buzzard represents the Cossacks and the Armadillo represents the Bandidos does that make the Woodpeckers the Scimitars?


329 posted on 05/24/2015 6:38:13 PM PDT by Rides_A_Red_Horse (Why do you need a fire extinguisher when you can call the fire department?)
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To: Rides_A_Red_Horse

“If the buzzard represents the Cossacks and the Armadillo represents the Bandidos does that make the Woodpeckers the Scimitars?”

Who does the Salamander represent?


330 posted on 05/24/2015 6:53:13 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: TexasGator; Salamander

Why don’t you ask Salamander? Why don’t you ping the FReepers you spew about? You have been reminded, again.


331 posted on 05/24/2015 7:02:23 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Salamander; HiTech RedNeck

Do you smell something foul and “trollish?”


332 posted on 05/24/2015 7:05:58 PM PDT by Rides_A_Red_Horse (Why do you need a fire extinguisher when you can call the fire department?)
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To: Smokin' Joe

The Salamander represents the relentless quest for truth.

[or a cute little critter]


333 posted on 05/24/2015 7:13:05 PM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.)
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To: Rides_A_Red_Horse
For a second there, I thought I smelled elderberries.


334 posted on 05/24/2015 7:15:00 PM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.)
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To: Salamander

A certain poster seems obsessed with the homosexual leather/bondage culture. Maybe they have the hamsters.


335 posted on 05/24/2015 7:31:28 PM PDT by Rides_A_Red_Horse (Why do you need a fire extinguisher when you can call the fire department?)
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To: Smokin' Joe

“Why don’t you ping the FReepers you spew about?”

I didn’t spew anything. I asked a question.


336 posted on 05/24/2015 7:35:09 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: Smokin' Joe; TexasGator
You have been reminded, again.

Lol..do you have anything constructive to say on this thread Joe or are you just here to play "nanny"?

337 posted on 05/24/2015 8:00:27 PM PDT by mac_truck (Aide toi et dieu t aidera)
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To: mac_truck

“Lol..do you have anything constructive to say on this thread Joe or are you just here to play “nanny”? “

Y’all pinged me to this conversation. I was just following the replies.


338 posted on 05/24/2015 8:05:14 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: mac_truck
Sure do. People who can't abide the fundamental respect that is a common FReeper tradition in an online forum just might have a problem with anyone who would have them observe basic courtesies in person. When someone is mentioned by name, you ping them.

I'm just pointing out basic manners to someone who had been reminded of them repeatedly.

You got a problem with that?

339 posted on 05/24/2015 8:05:48 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: TexasGator

So why not ask the person you are talking about? I would guess they’d know best.


340 posted on 05/24/2015 8:06:48 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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