Trump Pentagon pick flagged in 2021 as potential insider threat for extremist-linked tattoo

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-pentagon-pick-flagged-in-2021-as-potential-insider-threat-for-extremist-linked-tattoo/

As the AP reported in an investigation published last month, more than 480 people with a military background were accused of ideologically driven extremist crimes from 2017 through 2023, including the more than 230 arrested in connection with the January 6 insurrection, according to data collected and analyzed by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, or START, at the University of Maryland.

Though those numbers reflect a small fraction of those who have served honorably in the military — and Lloyd Austin, the current defense secretary, has said that extremism is not widespread in the US military — AP’s investigation found that plots involving people with military backgrounds were more likely to involve mass casualties.