People live in "houses" "condos" or "apartments." Rich people own "estates" or maybe "ranches" or "farms" if there is some livestock or crop production. "Country clubs" if there are recreational facilities. The Elks "lodge"? The VFW "outpost" or "station"? A church "center"? But white supremacists, members of "cults" and "militias" only live in one place: "compounds." It makes them so much easier to lob in tear gas, obstruct the entryways with tanks, then ignite, and burn to the ground, occupants included. Just ask the Branch Davidians. The Murrah federal "building" had security cameras, underground gate-access controlled parking, an internal day-care center, an arsenal, sophisticated radio and microwave communications equipment, etc., but was merely a "building." If anything deserved to be called a "compound" it was that building. Would anyone doubt how bothered government agents would be if a group started construction of something like that, as their residence?
So they arrest him three years later? Something is weird.
SPOKANE, Wash. - Former National Guard intelligence officer Rafael Davila admits he spent years bringing home secret and top-secret documents, stacking them in his basement and finally in a rented storage locker. He told the FBI he just wanted to read them.
"He doesn't care about the national security interest of the United States," Assistant U.S. Attorney Earl Hicks said of Rafael Davila. A judge ordered the two held without bail.
I’ve heard that Rafael Davila is a retired Lieutenant Colonel from the Washington State National Guard and that he is merely awaiting the 30th anniversary of “service” so that he can start receiving his “retirement annuity.”
To be tried in civil court for this is the wrong venue! His actions are a personal insult to me as a retired service member as well as all of the military (active, reserve, guard, retired, and those who have fallen in battle or as the result of battle wounds). He should not be tried in civil court but should be called to active service to stand Article 32 pursuant to a General Courts Martial. Upon conviction he should be reduced to the rank of Private E-1, Forfeit all pay and allowances, be given a Dishonorable discharge, and confined to Ft. Leavenworth Military Prison awaiting his execution by hanging.
How could they know for sure no foreign government didn't get some of these documents since they haven't found them all?
I wonder who guards these Docs?
He had so many he had to rent a place to keep them. Looks like someone would miss at least one of them.
You might want to add this to any topics linked with Tacoma, WA such as the DC sniper timeline- these folks weremeeting someone in 1999 to exchange docs, docs on nuke, chem and bio warfare, etc. Iraq could court black extremists and white extremists at the same time easily enough- Lord knows the extremist groups all show up to the same antiwar marches...