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Feds: Coast Guard officer targeted Supreme Court justices
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN ney, Liz Oyer, wrote in a
Associated Press court filing last week that
ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) — A prosecutors recently dis-
Coast Guard lieutenant closed that they don’t
accused of stockpiling expect to seek any addi-
guns and compiling a hit tional charges. In a Febru-
list of prominent Democrats ary court filing, prosecutors
and network TV journalists called Hasson a “domestic
looked at other targets: terrorist” and said he “in-
two Supreme Court justices tends to murder innocent
and two executives of so- civilians on a scale rarely
cial media companies, ac- seen in this country.” They
cording to federal prosecu- also said he is a self-de-
tors. scribed white nationalist
Those new allegations are who espoused extremist
contained in a court fil- views for years and drafted
ing Tuesday in which pros- an email in which he said
ecutors urge a magistrate he was “dreaming of a
judge to keep Christopher way to kill almost every last
Hasson, 49, detained in person on the earth.”
custody pending trial on Hasson’s internet search
firearms and weapons history “lays bare his views
charges. This file image provided by the U.S. District Court in Maryland shows a photo of firearms and on race, which in turn in-
The filing doesn’t name the ammunition that was in the motion for detention pending trial in the case against Christopher Paul form his criminal conduct,”
two justices and two com- Hasson. Windom wrote.
pany executives but says Associated Press In November 2017, accord-
Hasson searched online ing to the prosecutor, Has-
for their home addresses in son searched for “please
March 2018, within minutes god let there be a race
before and after searching war.” And the defendant
firearm sales websites. did an internet search for
“The defendant conduct- guns with a search term
ed an internet search for that used a racial slur for
‘are supreme court justices blacks in March 2018 be-
protected’ approximately fore visiting firearm sales
two weeks prior to search- websites. Prosecutors have
ing for the home addresses said Hasson appeared to
of the two Supreme Court be planning attacks in-
justices,” Assistant U.S. At- spired by the manifesto of
torney Thomas Windom Anders Behring Breivik, the
wrote in a footnote. Norwegian right-wing ex-
Hasson, who is due back in tremist who killed 77 people
court Thursday for a deten- in a 2011 bomb-and-shoot-
tion hearing, is renewing ing rampage. Windom said
his request to be released “it cannot go unnoticed”
from custody while await- that the terrorist who per-
ing trial. A lawyer who rep- petrated the deadly New
resented Hasson at a Feb. Zealand mosque attacks
21 detention hearing ac- in March also was a “devo-
cused prosecutors of mak- tee” of Breivik.
ing inflammatory accusa- In 2017, Hasson sent himself
tions against Hasson with- a draft letter he had writ-
out providing evidence to ten to a neo-Nazi leader
back them up. and “identified himself as
Prosecutors haven’t a White Nationalist for over
charged him with any 30 years and advocated
terrorism-related offenses for ‘focused violence’ in
since his Feb. 15 arrest and order to establish a white
subsequent indictment in homeland,” prosecutors
Maryland. Hasson’s attor- said.q
