Months after a HuffPost investigation revealed that Shawn McCaffrey graduated boot camp, Rep. Jackie Speier wants to know why he is still in the military.
A well-known white nationalist is still serving in the Air Force, Pentagon officials have confirmed, two months afterhis enlistment. And on Thursday, the chair of a House Armed Services subcommittee said she will contact Air Force leadership to see why there hasn’t been any action.
“I will be contacting Air Force leadership to find out why this individual ― who has his own author page on a website for far right extremists, describes himself as an ‘activist,’ and co-hosted a weekly podcast in which he attacked Jews, women, LGBTQ+ people, the U.S. armed forces, and many others using unacceptable slurs ― remains on active duty and under review given the very public and abundant evidence of his extremist ties,” Speier said in an emailed statement.
“He is currently on active duty in technical training,” Air Force spokesperson Ann Stefanek said in an email. “His case remains under review and no determination has been made at this time.” “If we were screening for violent extremism on social media for all incoming military recruits and those seeking government security clearances, as I called for earlier this year, how many cases like this would we have avoided?” she told HuffPost in her statement about McCaffrey.
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