An investigation has come to light Monday that some white supremacists are joining the military and police departments to learn tactics they can use against minority groups.
ABC News says the FBI's San Antonio Division conducted a four-year investigation and issued warnings to law enforcement agencies in Texas and across the country.
"In the long term, FBI San Antonio assesses [racially motivated violent extremists] successfully entering military and law enforcement careers almost certainly will gain access to non-public tradecraft and information, enabling them to enhance operational security and develop new tactics in and beyond the FBI San Antonio" region, a document obtained by ABC News that was distributed to law enforcement agencies in Texas and across the country reads.
Critics say it's another sign that law enforcement has been slow to deal with white-supremacists in their ranks, even as FBI agents are watching.
"When we asked the FBI last year to testify about white supremacists executing plans to infiltrate law enforcement entities across America, the bureau refused and told us it had no evidence that racist infiltration was a problem," Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) said in a statement. "Now, the January insurrection -- and the growing evidence of off-duty law enforcement officers being involved in the attack on Congress -- and this newly leaked report confirm in my mind that the FBI's failure to level with the American people about organized racist infiltration of law enforcement is having dangerous and deadly consequences."
Former FBI Agent Michael German, who had extensive experience infiltrating white supremacist groups for the FBI, tells ABC News he’s disturbed by the way leaders in the agency are handling the issue.
"In 2006, the FBI warned in writing that white supremacists seek to infiltrate law enforcement, and its 2015 Counterterrorism Policy Guide instructed agents conducting domestic terrorism investigations of white supremacists and far-right militias to modify their tactics because the subjects of these investigations often have 'active links' to law enforcement," German said. "Yet when Congress sought answers about what the FBI was doing to address this threat, FBI managers disavowed the intelligence."