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Extremist Leader Seeking To Indict Obama For Treason Says He Was Questioned By FBI
Zachary Roth | May 7, 2010, 12:03PM
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The leader of a movement seeking to have President Obama indicted for treason told TPMmuckraker he was interviewed this week by the FBI.
Carl Swensson said that FBI agents, accompanied by state police, came to his Georgia home Wednesday asking for information about what law enforcement fears is a plan to take over a Tennessee judicial building. "They were concerned that we were gonna storm the courthouse," said Swensson.
PERMALINK | COMMENTS (85) | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (1)Topics: Barack Obama, Carl Swensson, Darren Huff, Oath Keepers, Right-wing extremism, Walter Fitzpatrick
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Right-Wing Extremists Take On Local Law Enforcement, Lose
Zachary Roth | May 6, 2010, 11:54AM
Darren Huff
Right-wing extremists who question the legitimacy of Barack Obama's presidency tried to take on local law enforcement recently -- and they seem to have come out on the losing end.
First, a Tennessee man was arrested after walking into his local county courthouse to try to effect a citizen's arrest of a grand jury foreman who had refused to investigate President Obama's legitimacy to serve -- an encounter partially caught on video. That enraged one Georgia-based member of the far-right OathKeepers group. Responding to a call from an extremist leader, he drove to Tennessee with an AK-47 in a bid to get his comrade released -- only to wind up getting arrested himself.
PERMALINK | COMMENTS (237) | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (10)Topics: American Grand Jury, Barack Obama, Birthers, Carl Swensson, Darren Huff, FBI, Oath Keepers, Right-wing extremism, Walter Fitzpatrick
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