AP reports:A ranking FBI official says authorities are pursuing a possible hate crime charge as well as a homicide charge against a white supremacist suspected of murdering a security officer at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial and Museum.
Joseph Persichini, assistant director of the Washington FBI field office, said authorities did not have an "open file" on the suspect, 88-year-old James von Brunn, a Holocaust denier. And Persichini stressed that the investigation into the slaying of 39-year-old guard Stephen Johns was still "in the preliminary stage." And why in the world did they not have an open file on him? After he brought a sawed-off shotgun to the Federal Reserve in 1981, then went to prison for it, wrote a book titled "Kill the Best Gentiles," alleging a Jewish conspiracy "to destroy the white gene pool," and was active on white supremacist sites like stormfront.org, they weren't watching this guy? Maybe if The DHS report on right-wing extremists hadn't been shouted down by... right-wing extremists, von Brunn and his ilk would have been more closely watched, and this tragedy could have been averted.
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