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Coast Guard Officer Accused of Terrorist Plot Targeting Media, Lawmakers
Military,com ^ | February 20, 2019 | By Hope Hodge Seck

Posted on 02/20/2019 3:11:56 PM PST by Hojczyk

A Coast Guard lieutenant assigned to the service's headquarters in Washington, D.C., has been arrested on drug and gun possession charges, and is accused of plans to "murder innocent civilians on a scale rarely seen in this country," according to documents filed in Maryland District Court.

Lt. Christopher Paul Hasson, an acquisitions officer for the National Security Cutter Acquisition Program, was arrested Feb. 15 and charged with possession of a firearm and ammunition by an unlawful user or addict of controlled substances, and possession of Tramadol, a Schedule IV pain medication.

A motion for detention pending trial, filed by U.S. Attorney Robert K. Hur, paints a much more menacing portrait of Hasson's crimes and planned crimes.

"The current charges, however, are the proverbial tip of the iceberg," Hur wrote. "The defendant is a domestic terrorist, bent on committing acts dangerous to human life that are intended to affect government conduct."

Hur cited a draft email written by Hasson in June 2017 in which he said he was "dreaming of a way to kill almost every last person on the earth" using a "Spanish flu, botulism, anthrax" or some other mass toxin.

Another draft letter to a "known American neo-Nazi leader" identified Hasson as a white nationalist looking for an opportunity for "a little focused violence" to establish racial supremacy.

When Hasson was arrested in Silver Spring, Maryland, earlier this month, the document states, law enforcement agents found 15 firearms, including shotguns, rifles and handguns, and "conservatively, over 1,000 rounds of mixed ammunition."

A list of potential targets allegedly compiled by Hasson in January included "prominent Democratic congressional leaders, activists, political organizations, and MSNBC and CNN media personalities" including TV host Chris Hayes; House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California; Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia; Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-New York; and many others.

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To: marktwain
I think the discrepancy was "where" the barrel began as a question of legality. Naturally ATF said illegal.

IIRC he did win a judgement ($100k), but was fund guilty on the original charge.

61 posted on 02/20/2019 4:37:36 PM PST by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy saints surrounded.)
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To: MAGAthon

LinkedIn: Seamus Hughes, Deputy Director, Program on Extremism at George Washington University, Kensington, Maryland
He regularly provides commentary to media outlets, including the New York Times, The Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, the Atlantic, NPR, CNN, MSNBC, FoxNews, BBC, PBS, and CBS’ 60 Minutes. He has testified before the U.S. Congress on multiple occasions.
Hughes previously worked at the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), serving as a lead staffer on U.S. government efforts to implement a national CVE strategy...

Prior to NCTC, Hughes served as the Senior Counterterrorism Advisor for the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. He organized over a dozen congressional hearings on the threat of homegrown violent extremism. He authored two reports for the Senate: “A Ticking Time Bomb: Counterterrorism Lessons from the U.S. Government’s Failure to Prevent the Fort Hood Attack” and “Zachary Chesser: A Case Study in Online Islamist Radicalization and Its Meaning for the Threat of Homegrown Terrorism.”

Hughes has authored numerous legislative bills, including sections of the 9/11 Commission Recommendations Act and the Special Agent Samuel Hicks Families of Fallen Heroes Act. He is a recipient of the National Security Council Outstanding Service Award and two NCTC Director’s Awards for outstanding service. He teaches classes at George Washington University and Georgetown University...

Professional Staff Member, U.S. Senate, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee
March 2009 – March 2011
Investigate the threat of terrorism in the United States, organized ten hearings, and authored significant sections of the Committee’s bipartisan investigative report on the Fort Hood attack.
Conduct daily oversight of the Intelligence Community and Department of Homeland Security through briefings, hearings, and letters...

Deputy Press Secretary
U.S. Senate, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee
July 2007 – February 2009...
https://www.linkedin.com/in/seamushughes

also writes for Lawfare.


62 posted on 02/20/2019 4:40:45 PM PST by MAGAthon
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To: MAGAthon

17 Nov 2018: NPR: All Things Considered: How A ‘Court Records Nerd’ Discovered The Government May Be Charging Julian Assange
One minute, Seamus Hughes was reading the book Dragons Love Tacos to his son. A few minutes later, after putting him to bed, Hughes was back on his computer, stumbling on what could be one of the most closely guarded secrets within the U.S. government: The Justice Department may be preparing criminal charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange...

By Friday morning, the Twitter post had hundreds of retweets and thousands of likes. “I look at my wife, I say, ‘I think something happened last night,’ and then we get The Washington Post that morning and the front page is all of this, and The New York Times and everybody else after that, and I thought to myself, ‘It’s going to be one of those Fridays I guess.’”...

Prosecutors in Virginia have called the filing an error. “That was not the intended name for this filing,” Joshua Stueve, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia, told The New York Times.
Hughes said the “accidental revelation” he found in the court papers is most likely the result of human error – an accidental case of cut and paste.
“It looks like it’s the same prosecutor that’s looking at both those cases. You know, these prosecutors are overworked, they’ve got an immense workload and things get missed on these things, and I think this is just one of those honest mistakes.”
Hughes said he feels for the attorney who made the error, adding that in retrospect, he might have taken a different approach.
“Looking back, I probably would have called DOJ last night if I realized what I had and asked for a comment and gone from there, kind of through the quasi journalistic stuff, but I didn’t realize what it was when I was looking at it really,” he said.
He said the discovery has also prompted him to rethink his research approach
https://www.npr.org/2018/11/17/668750802/how-a-court-records-nerd-discovered-the-government-may-be-charging-julian-assang


63 posted on 02/20/2019 4:47:42 PM PST by MAGAthon
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To: MAGAthon

NPR is one of the most biased sources there is. I cannot listen to them for 5 minutes without barfing.


64 posted on 02/20/2019 4:51:12 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie ("The MSM is the enemy of the American people"...Democrat Pat Caddell)
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To: Hojczyk

How convenient.


65 posted on 02/20/2019 5:02:14 PM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Hojczyk

Wow, this guy’s already been declared a terrorist and he hasn’t actually killed or hurt anyone as of yet... How long after Nidal Hassan killed the 14 people in the shooting at Fort Hood did it take the Obama admin to declare him a terrorist? Did they ever do so or is it still classified as just workplace violence?


66 posted on 02/20/2019 5:06:45 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: shanover

Seamus quick to give FakeNewsNYT a comment against President Trump’s statement:

8 Jan 2019: NYT: A Border Wall to Stop Terrorists? Experts Say That Makes Little Sense
Counterterrorism officials say there has never been a case of a known terrorist sneaking into the country through open areas of the southwest...

Counterterrorism officials have long discounted the threat of Islamic State or Qaeda terrorists entering through the southwest border. In some cases, the opposite has happened, said Seamus Hughes, the deputy director of George Washington University’s program on extremism, citing homegrown American extremists who crossed into Mexico to avoid being detected on no-fly lists...
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/08/us/politics/trump-border-wall-terrorists.html


67 posted on 02/20/2019 5:06:55 PM PST by MAGAthon
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To: Hojczyk

>>he said he was “dreaming of a way to kill almost every last person on the earth”

Yeah, that would(n’t) work.

But this nutjob just is getting headlines just as Jussie’s fraud has been exposed.


68 posted on 02/20/2019 5:12:27 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: MAGAthon

Just a question- how did he plan to get all these Democrat politicians to stop traveling on junkets overseas and join with all these diverse media personalities in a meeting at the same place at the same time in order to set them up for a mass attack?

Was he going to wait for the 2020 DNC convention?


69 posted on 02/20/2019 5:12:55 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: PghBaldy

I reached the same conclusion.


70 posted on 02/20/2019 5:13:49 PM PST by sport
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To: Hojczyk

>>, law enforcement agents found 15 firearms, including shotguns, rifles and handguns, and “conservatively, over 1,000 rounds of mixed ammunition.”

So that is less than 100 rounds of ammunition to practice with each firearm.

Or is he like a feminist Star Wars character and just an expert at everything the first time he picks up a weapon?


71 posted on 02/20/2019 5:14:13 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: kenmcg

Not me.


72 posted on 02/20/2019 5:15:13 PM PST by sport
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To: moonhawk
>>Why do these people always write down/publicize their stupid plots?

Because in the James Bond films the villains always boasted of their plans filling in the good guys on what must be done to stop them.

And ain't a hell of a lot of difference between threatening to indiscriminately kill almost everyone on the planet and issuing a manifesto to kill all of the cows and end air travel forever (as AOC did)...

73 posted on 02/20/2019 5:17:19 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: atc23

Yep.


74 posted on 02/20/2019 5:17:36 PM PST by sport
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To: MAGAthon

Wonder who in the Senate chose Seamus to work there.


75 posted on 02/20/2019 5:19:49 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: Ikeon

his threat was uncontrolled spread of swine flu or anthrax (globally). Which means many more people than just Democrats and no protection for any white person.

this talking point of “white nationalism” doesn’t pass the smell test


76 posted on 02/20/2019 5:21:47 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: Hojczyk
... law enforcement agents found 15 firearms, including shotguns, rifles and handguns, and "conservatively, over 1,000 rounds of mixed ammunition."

Seriously, that's nothing. 10,000 rounds of ammunition is nothing.

77 posted on 02/20/2019 5:22:03 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: Hojczyk
A list of potential targets allegedly compiled by Hasson in January included "prominent Democratic congressional leaders, activists, political organizations, and MSNBC and CNN media personalities" including TV host Chris Hayes; House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California; Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia; Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-New York; and many others.

I'm sure the lieutenant is not the only one who has been tempted to do this.

78 posted on 02/20/2019 5:23:27 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: Repeat Offender

Weaver got 100K
His 3 daughters received 1 million each.


79 posted on 02/20/2019 5:29:36 PM PST by alpo (If you can't read this tagline, we need a higher wall.)
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To: Repeat Offender; All
Pretty close. Weaver got $100,000. Each of his surviving children got $1 million.

Weaver was convicted of failing to appear in court on the original charge.

After the shootout, the Justice Department brought Weaver and Harris to trial on conspiracy and murder charges. They were acquitted on those charges, but Weaver was convicted of failing to appear for trial on the earlier weapons charge and served a prison term.

Assistant U.S. Atty. Gen. Frank W. Hunger, who heads the civil division that reached the settlement, was asked Tuesday if he saw any irony in paying $100,000 to a man the government sought unsuccessfully to convict on murder charges.

"He was acquitted," Hunger said.


80 posted on 02/20/2019 5:31:39 PM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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