New Bill Seeks To Improve Military's Ability To Keep Out White Nationalist Enlistees
New Bill Seeks To Improve Military’s Ability To Keep Out White Nationalist Enlistees
The legislation, introduced by Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.), comes after many servicemen and veterans participated in the violent Capitol insurrection.
By Christopher Mathias, HuffPost US
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A new bill introduced in the House seeks to improve the U.S. military’s ability to prevent white supremacists from joining its ranks.
The “Shielding our Military from Extremists Act” was introduced on Thursday by Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.), his office confirmed. The measure would require the Secretary of Defense to adapt a series of recommendations made in an October 2020 Pentagon report on how to keep “domestic extremists,” namely white supremacists, out of the U.S. armed forces.
The recommendations in the Pentagon report — a copy of which was obtained by HuffPost — include giving the Department of Defense access to the FBI’s database of extremist tattoos and creating clearer security clearance questions about white nationalism.
Aguilar told HuffPost he thought the Pentagon report “made clear that white supremacists are using our military to further their hateful and violent agenda, from acquiring training to recruiting new members — they’re joining our armed forces with dangerous motives.”
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