[muawiyah]

Hutaree were also running around in the woods in Lower Michigan at the same time you had the FBI involved in gunrunning across the border ~ maybe they saw something they weren't supposed to see, or were getting entirely too close to the FBI/ATF base of operations for their Canadian front?

Otherwise this particular group were entirely too mild mannered for normal FBI interest.

[circlecity]

"Otherwise this particular group were entirely too mild mannered for normal FBI interest."

Which is why I always thought these arrests were orchestrated to discredit the Tea Party movement. There were lots of efforts at the time to discredit all conservatives as violent extremists and this was part of that effort. That a bunch of innocent men had to sit in jail for well over a year didn't bother Holder in the least.