As the Marine Corps investigate extremist ties to the reservist son of a former local GOP leader, there are questions regarding the effectiveness of new policies aimed at rooting out white supremacy.
In 2020, the FBI notified the Pentagon that nearly half of its 143 criminal investigations of current and former service members involved domestic extremism, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington D.C.members of the military’s rank and file during a speech last spring to do their part to stem extremism.
Active participation includes fundraising, attending rallies, recruitment and training. The military’s new policies also spell out rules for what service members can do online. They cannot like or share an extremist tweet.“Those changes are wholly insufficient to address the problem,” said Devin Burghart, executive director of the Seattle-based Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights. ”What they didn't do is add a prohibition of membership in white nationalist organizations.
Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said in December that the DOD did not create a list of extremist groups service members shouldn’t join on grounds that organizations can disband or reform themselves.
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