About those Hutarees

Archy Cary at Big Journalism reports that the case against the Hutarees seems to be falling apart.

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So, the nine members of group profiled by the Department of Justice and the MSM as representing an imminent right-wing extremist danger have been released on bond by a judge who surveyed the evidence and concluded that the government hadn't made the case that the Hutarees represented a clear and present danger to "the safety of the community."  Instead, they appear to be most guilty of shooting off their mouths – a practice still protected, in most cases, by the First Amendment.

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So, the nine members of group profiled by the Department of Justice and the MSM as representing an imminent right-wing extremist danger have been released on bond by a judge who surveyed the evidence and concluded that the government hadn't made the case that the Hutarees represented a clear and present danger to "the safety of the community."  Instead, they appear to be most guilty of shooting off their mouths – a practice still protected, in most cases, by the First Amendment.

Here's the question the MSM needs to ask, but won't: Was this flamboyant raid primarily driven by political rather than law enforcement motives?

Was the arrest of the Hutaree militia Attorney General Eric Holder's effort to manufacture an imminent right-wing extremist threat for political purposes?

Just asking.