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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: Salamander

I saw those too.

As an arachnophobe I’m more partial to the sneks and human bones. ;-)


101 posted on 05/24/2015 12:02:46 AM PDT by TigersEye (If You Are Ignorant, Don't Vote!)
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To: TigersEye

They’re pictures.

Totally harmless.

:)


102 posted on 05/24/2015 12:06:27 AM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.)
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To: Salamander

I don’t mind the pics much but that vid you shared earlier

arrrrrrr that creeped me right out. lol

FWIW harm has no relevance to a phobia. At any rate I lived in a cabin in SW NM with no screens and an inch gap at the bottom of the doors. Never saw a tarantula in the house but every other kind of spider walked right in along with a couple of centipedes. I learned to deal. Heck, I slept on the floor the first two months I was there so I had to.

In fact I had a black widow who built a four foot high web from the window sill to the ceiling on the opposite side of my dinner table. She stayed on her side and I stayed on mine.


103 posted on 05/24/2015 12:17:20 AM PDT by TigersEye (If You Are Ignorant, Don't Vote!)
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To: TigersEye

Ah!

Lucky you!

Though they’re supposedly here, I have never found one.

A friend who has them aplenty can’t figure out how to mail me one.

And yes, I would set up a lovely vivarium for a little shiny, black lady friend.

As it is, I have to make do with the jumping spiders who live on my window sills and the occasional “house spider” that sets up shop and snags the errant fly, in the summer.

There are wolf spiders wandering around too but I rarely see them.

:D


104 posted on 05/24/2015 12:43:11 AM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.)
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To: wardaddy; Salamander
Martin Niemöller -

First they came for the Socialists and I said nothing because I wasn't a Socialist...

Right now the powers that be have done a fine job of playing on the public's perception that bikers are criminals because they look scary, and are deserving of whatever they get, including being shot and killed.

It's curious how little the press is doing to investigate this. Imagine if a whole lot of black groups had called a meeting, and couple of street gangs showed up as well. A fight breaks out between the two street gangs and nine people are shot to death, but everybody at the meeting gets arrested. Do you think there would be as little media interest in digging into the story? Would they simply accept not getting a chance to interview any of the two hundred people arrested?

105 posted on 05/24/2015 2:18:58 AM PDT by Pelham (The refusal to deport is defacto amnesty)
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To: Salamander

Bumping for later.


106 posted on 05/24/2015 3:11:16 AM PDT by Betty Jane
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To: MeshugeMikey

Hill on Wheels...


107 posted on 05/24/2015 3:43:03 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Funny how Hollywood's 'No Nukes' crowd has been silent during Obama's Iranian nuclear negotiations.)
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To: TexasGator

So the Bandios were shooting at fleeing Cossacks and the Waco PD shot headshots at non-gun holding Cossacks?

That doesn’t make sense (all but one of the dead were Cossacks and allegedly at least four of the dead bikers were PD kills).


108 posted on 05/24/2015 3:46:36 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Funny how Hollywood's 'No Nukes' crowd has been silent during Obama's Iranian nuclear negotiations.)
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To: Pelham

Imagine it in Baltimore, Ferguson or Cleveland. Nine black shot dead, 170 arrested on million dollar bails, all phones and cameras taken and wiped.

Think it would just be “move along, nothing to see?”


109 posted on 05/24/2015 4:55:37 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: a fool in paradise
It's a story created by LE to spoon feed to the lapdog media.


110 posted on 05/24/2015 4:57:07 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: dp0622
it will be interesting to see if any of those shot dead was shot by another gang member

It will be easy to tell: by now, all the autopsies should be done, and the caliber of all bullets should have been determined, and forensic analysis to determine which came from LEO rifles, which came from seized biker weapons, and which came from unknown sources, should be complete in the next few days.

If there is an enormous silence, then we will know why.

111 posted on 05/24/2015 5:07:04 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: TexasGator
Salamander is complaining because he is so infatuated with me that he can’t get on to more pressing things!

Typical accuracy.

112 posted on 05/24/2015 5:51:02 AM 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: a fool in paradise

Yes, Hellish Hill on Wheels


113 posted on 05/24/2015 6:11:55 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: a fool in paradise

“So the Bandios were shooting at fleeing Cossacks and the Waco PD shot headshots at non-gun holding Cossacks?”

No. The Bandidos shot them at point blank range.


114 posted on 05/24/2015 6:25:52 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: wardaddy

“A heavy police presence was all around the event and they have to have parking lot video in front of their vehicles or they must be 20th century po-po”

Yes. And it was said that the testimony of the Cossack is consistent with the surveillance video.


115 posted on 05/24/2015 6:27:47 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: Rides_A_Red_Horse

“A few anti-biker posters here also have an “obama smell.””

LOL.....just because I find “biker culture” vaguely gay and populated by a bunch of lemming-like followers who try to use bullying of numbers of other fag-like Village People-clad uniform wearers to get their way doesn’t mean I have an “obama smell”.

If anything it’s sheep-like “biker gang” members with the child-equivalent of “cards in their spokes” that are “obama lovers”. The white-collar “look at me I drive a Harley” government types that fawn over the few dominant members and use that affiliation to keep from getting their asses deservedly kicked that are the “obama lovers”

So, is it “Man-Love” that drives the social structure of biker gangs? I think so - and that’s exactly what drives the hysterical support of Obama lovers.

So who smells like Obama? You or me? I think it’s you.

Go ahead, make your threats against me, because I think you and your biker-gang friends are vaguely gay. None of you are anything unless you put on your village people garb and travel in sufficient numbers.


116 posted on 05/24/2015 6:28:30 AM PDT by RFEngineer
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To: wardaddy

“I have no way of knowing but it is not consistent with official early releases which say fights started in pkace and there was blood everywhere inside”

Yes, there was an early report of it starting inside but that was a brief and fleeting report. The picture quickly changed as waitresses spoke and the surveillance video was viewed.

As for blood inside, it was total chaos. Many ran inside to hide. Many of those were wounded.

I read some reports that a fight broke out in the bathroom also after they ran into it to hide.

One waitress said that more than 30 guns were drawn.

Another said that she was afraid to dial out on her cell phone for fear some ‘excited’ dude would shoot her.


117 posted on 05/24/2015 6:34:19 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: RFEngineer

You “progressives” sure project a lot!


118 posted on 05/24/2015 6:35:25 AM 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

“You “progressives” sure project a lot!”

LOL....I calls em like I sees em. Now put on your assless chaps and get out there tiger!


119 posted on 05/24/2015 6:39:34 AM PDT by RFEngineer
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To: Smokin' Joe

ummm. Smokin’ Joe replies to a post about Salamander! SJ and Salamander MUST be the same person! At least that is the rule ya’ll informed me of ...


Smokin’ Joe to TexasGator

Salamander is complaining because he is so infatuated with me that he can’t get on to more pressing things!
Typical accuracy.


120 posted on 05/24/2015 6:41:31 AM PDT by TexasGator
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