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A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found. (www.propublica.org)
submitted 7 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world
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[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 51 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Propublica just continues to put out great journalism. It seems crazy, but there is a part of this article that is basically a side note and simultaneously is also illuminating about another issue on the public mind recently:

But there was also an Ohio OB-GYN on the national board of directors — he used to work for the Cleveland Clinic, I discovered, and now led a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group. The doctor was joined at board meetings by a city prosecutor in Utah, an ex-city council member and, Williams was later told, a sergeant with an Illinois sheriff’s department. (The doctor did not respond to requests for comment. He has since left his post with the UnitedHealth subsidiary, a spokesperson for the company said.)

This is the calibre of doctors that UHC apparently relies on to inform them how to best "enhance profits" by denying "unnecessary care", and it's not remotely surprising at this point.

[–] jonne 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

And it's just by saying 'yes' to the stories everyone else ignores. This journalist is the only one that agreed to follow up to the guy. IIRC this same thing happened to a bunch of other stories. The mainstream media just buries so much stuff. Sometimes you have to wonder what else is just stuck in a Nytimes journalist's inbox that is just languishing.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 36 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Uhhhh, ruh roh for him.

He’d devised elaborate ruses to gather evidence of militias’ ties to high-ranking law enforcement officials

ETA:

The files give a unique window, at once expansive and intimate, into one of the most consequential and volatile social movements of our time. Williams penetrated a new generation of paramilitary leaders, which included doctors, career cops and government attorneys. Sometimes they were frightening, sometimes bumbling, always heavily armed. It was a world where a man would propose assassinating politicians, only to spark a debate about logistics.

ETA 2: (this is well worth reading the entire thing)

He first contacted me in October 2022. He couldn’t see how the movement was changing beyond his corner of Utah. AP3 was reinvigorated by then, I later found, with as many as 50 recruits applying each day. In private chats I reviewed, leaders were debating if they should commit acts of terrorism. At the Texas border, members were rounding up immigrants in armed patrols. But Williams didn’t know all that yet. On our first call, he launched into a litany of minutiae: names, logistical details, allegations of minor players committing petty crimes. He could tell I wasn’t sure what it all amounted to.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 22 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Well I hope the FBI is infiltrating it too.

It's also an audio article, will listen in a while.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

This is why the FBI will be defunded by Trump

[–] Late2TheParty@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago

Yo! That was enlightening! Thanks for sharing.

[–] HaleHirsute 2 points 7 months ago

Great reporting and article, highly recommend.