We have another fellow, age 49, implicated in a wide-ranging terrorist plot.
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Updated at 6:30 a.m. ET
A 49-year-old Coast Guard lieutenant charged with stockpiling weapons and drugs is being described as a "domestic terrorist" who was planning "to murder innocent civilians on a scale rarely seen in this country," according to court documents filed in U.S. District Court in Maryland on Tuesday.
Federal prosecutors say Christopher Paul Hasson, a self-described white nationalist living in Silver Spring, Md., was amassing firearms since at least 2017, while cultivating plans to launch a widespread attack on prominent Democratic lawmakers, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and several high-profile television anchors from MSNBC and CNN.
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Targeted:
According to court documents, he had a spreadsheet for targets. These were (all [sic]):
-"JOEY" (Presumably Joe Scarborough)
-"Chris hayes"
-"Sen blumen jew" (Richard Blumenthal)
-"pelosi"
-"sen kaine"
-"ari melber"
-"shumer" (Chuck Schumer)
-"don lemon"
-"gillibran"
-"poca warren"
-"cortez"
-"booker"
-"harris"
-"beto orourke"
-"maxine waters"
-"sheila jackson"
-"ilhan omar"
-"chris cuomo"
-"DSA"
-"van jones"
-"podesta"
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Editor's note: This story contains language that may be offensive to some readers.
Updated at 6:30 a.m. ET
A 49-year-old Coast Guard lieutenant charged with stockpiling weapons and drugs is being described as a "domestic terrorist" who was planning "to murder innocent civilians on a scale rarely seen in this country," according to court documents filed in U.S. District Court in Maryland on Tuesday.
Federal prosecutors say Christopher Paul Hasson, a self-described white nationalist living in Silver Spring, Md., was amassing firearms since at least 2017, while cultivating plans to launch a widespread attack on prominent Democratic lawmakers, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and several high-profile television anchors from MSNBC and CNN.
More from NPR.
Targeted:
According to court documents, he had a spreadsheet for targets. These were (all [sic]):
-"JOEY" (Presumably Joe Scarborough)
-"Chris hayes"
-"Sen blumen jew" (Richard Blumenthal)
-"pelosi"
-"sen kaine"
-"ari melber"
-"shumer" (Chuck Schumer)
-"don lemon"
-"gillibran"
-"poca warren"
-"cortez"
-"booker"
-"harris"
-"beto orourke"
-"maxine waters"
-"sheila jackson"
-"ilhan omar"
-"chris cuomo"
-"DSA"
-"van jones"
-"podesta"
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The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.