Oathkeepers include 300+ current and former Homeland Security employees

https://www.pogo.org/investigation/2022/12/hundreds-of-oath-keepers-have-worked-for-dhs-leaked-list-shows.
 

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This investigation was produced in partnership with the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project.

More than 300 individuals on a leaked membership list of the far-right militia group the Oath Keepers described themselves as current or former employees of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Members were employed at DHS components such as the Border Patrol, Coast Guard, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the Secret Service, according to a review by the Project On Government Oversight (POGO).

POGO’s review appears to be the first significant public examination using the leaked records to focus on employees in DHS — an agency with the mission of countering domestic violent extremism — and it comes only months after the March 2022 publication of a DHS study which found that “the Department has significant gaps that have impeded its ability to comprehensively prevent, detect, and respond to potential threats related to domestic violent extremism within DHS.”

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Seven individuals claiming to work or have previously worked at the Secret Service are on the leaked Oath Keepers membership list.

One former Secret Service employee, named Daniel Blackford, who appeared on the leaked list had his security clearance revoked in 2014 from a different federal agency – the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General – for “his intentional and unauthorized disclosure of confidential” investigative records. While nothing publicly known about that case involves the Oath Keepers, and Blackford — who became a police trainer in Texas — has said he has long disassociated himself from the group, it underscores the risk of insiders leaking information to militant groups.
 

The only intelligence component in the federal government tasked by law with providing intelligence to state, local, tribal, and territorial governments is DHS’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis. It also is responsible for packaging intelligence from those governments into reports that get distributed across the federal government.

But DHS’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis has not been immune from insider threat concerns.

Rinaldo Nazzaro was employed as an analyst at the Office of Intelligence and Analysis from 2004 to 2006. Nazzaro would later lead the neo-Nazi group the Base. Although there is no public evidence showing that he skewed assessments, the skills and knowledge he gleaned from his time in government and working as a defense contractor may have benefited his efforts to evade detection — underscoring another risk from extremist recruitment and infiltration of law enforcement, military, and intelligence agencies.