Imagine if he was a Muslim... Militia leader caught stealing classified info
The “commander” of an antigovernment Minnesota militia — a man who was trained in intelligence gathering by the U.S. Army and currently serving in the National Guard — was arrested yesterday by the FBI on charges of stealing the classified personnel roster of 400 members of his former military unit.
Keith Michael Novak, 25, who served in Iraq with the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division before joining the Minnesota Army National Guard, stole the identity information in a scheme to fund and provide fake identities for his militia unit, according to a federal criminal complaint.
In the Minnesota case, Novak told two undercover FBI agents he had the 400 encrypted identities — a “battalion’s worth of people” — for use if someone “ever wanted to disappear and become someone else,” the document says.
Novak also is believed to possess other items stolen from the military, including flak jackets, riot gear and communication equipment, the FBI complaint says.
http://splcenter.org/blog/2013/12/12/minnesota-militia-leader-arrested-in-military-id-ripoff/