{"id":1235,"date":"2012-05-01T10:20:09","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T15:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=1235"},"modified":"2012-05-01T10:20:09","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T15:20:09","slug":"interesting-read-on-fbi-patriot-conspiracy-operations-in-the-1990s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=1235","title":{"rendered":"Interesting read on FBI &#8220;Patriot Conspiracy&#8221; operations in the 1990&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/articles\/2012\/04\/18\/patriot_games?page=0,0\">This was published last month,<\/a> but I only recently discovered it via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2012\/05\/when_investigat.html\">Bruce Schneier.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The operation&#8217;s intent, secondary to the threats on paper at least, was to broadly collect intelligence on the Patriot movement&#8217;s members and activities, according to records of the investigation and former FBI agents who worked on the case.<\/p>\n<p>Three Patriot groups were directly targeted by PATCON &#8212; [Texas Light Infantry], an Alabama organization called Civilian Material Assistance, and the Tennessee-based American Pistol and Rifle Association.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My favorite part of the article is where the FBI reported that two groups got together, and each accused the other of being infiltrated and under surveillance. They were both right.<\/p>\n<p>You know how to tell which one is the FBI informant, right? He&#8217;s the one advocating violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was published last month, but I only recently discovered it via Bruce Schneier. The operation&#8217;s intent, secondary to the threats on paper at least, was to broadly collect intelligence on the Patriot movement&#8217;s members and activities, according to records of the investigation and former FBI agents who worked on the case. Three Patriot groups [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}