(Ken Silva, Headline USA) About two weeks ago, a video went viral of a Tennessee man shooting his girlfriend’s son at point-blank range. The son, Kyle Spitze, survived, while the boyfriend committed suicide after a standoff with police.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbCWcj1NSaI
That bizarre story, which occurred in August but only went viral recently, just took...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Neo-Nazi activist Christopher Cantwell, one of the most prominent figures from the 2017 Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally, has a long history of talking to the FBI and other law enforcement agencies.
According to Cantwell—who cried on camera after Charlottesville—his informing only targets groups such as...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) “We can neither confirm nor deny.”
It’s a phrase the FBI and other agencies often use in response to questions that might jeopardize sensitive law enforcement operations or matters of national security.
But in an ongoing lawsuit, the Justice Department is battling for the right to neither...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Department of Homeland Security has funded a study that links popular social media personalities Andrew Tate, Pearl Davis and other “Manosphere” influencers to domestic terrorism, Headline USA has learned.
The study stems from the Targeted Violence & Terrorism Prevention Grant Program, or TVTP—an initiative where...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Over the last several years, prison inmate Bill White has filed numerous lawsuits that identify alleged FBI informants in the neo-Nazi movement. These filings have underpinned a series of Headline USA articles dubbed the “Fed Files.”
White now faces potential court sanctions over his disclosures. In...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) In the 1990s, the FBI ran an operation entailing undercover agents and informants posing as right-wing extremists.
Code-named Patriot Conspiracy, or PATCON, the operation was kept secret until well into the 2000s.
After being made public, FBI informant John Matthews, who was involved in PATCON, claimed in...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) In the early 1990s, Brian P. Haughton was playing music in a neo-Nazi punk band with at least one member of the Aryan Republican Army—a gang of white supremacist bank robbers who used the proceeds of their crimes to fund domestic terrorism, possibly including the...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) On June 8, 2022, a Twitter account linked to U.S. counterterrorism operator Jade Parker claimed to have identified the suspect who placed pipe bombs outside the RNC and DNC headquarters ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill protest-turned-riot.
“I have a very good idea who...
Editor's Note: This is the fourth installment of the Fed Files, a series revealing the sinister relationships between the FBI and groups associated with U.S. right-wing extremism.
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) On Aug. 11, 2017, right-wing extremists converged on the college town of Charlottesville, Virginia. Wielding tiki torches, they marched up the...
In the first series of Headline USA's investigative series, "Fed Files," this publication reported on records that neo-Nazi inmate Bill White has been tortured in prison. Part three of this series examines White's claim that he was tortured over a bogus tip from an FBI informant about an alleged...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) An FBI informant cofounded one of the largest and oldest neo-Nazi organizations in U.S. history: the National Socialist Movement, a group connected to numerous crimes and violent events, including the deadly 2017 Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally, according to previously unpublicized records reviewed by Headline...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) “The FBI’s Domestic Terrorism Operations Unit (DTOU) creates and controls fake white supremacist extremist groups and has done so for decades."
That shocking allegation comes from a controversial source: an affidavit filed by convicted felon and neo-Nazi activist Bill White. The Nazi inmate has filed hundreds...