Nutaree Indictment

Federal indictment of Hutaree members

In what little I know of these sorts of investigations the investigating authorities often spend months, years even following these conspiracies in order to amass a wealth of charges so that incarceration of the guilty parties is certain. What have we here, five charges? The offenders arrested on the pretext that they were about to commit a reconnaissance? Why is interrupting a mere reconnaissance reasonable grounds for terminating an investigation? From what I've read investigators like to observe these kinds of things while building their case. Firearms possession illegal? Teaching explosives making illegal? When did homemade bombs all of a sudden become WMDs?

I don't know what the testimony was before the grand jury, but upon perusal of this indictment I get the impression that these charges seems pretty thin, and I intuit that thinness is due to a certain haste in bringing them. I have more than a nagging suspicion that haste is due to an administration more intent on the timing of creating political narratives and Machiavellian obfuscations, then seeing these seemingly dangerous religious nutbags ever convicted. If the Nutaree go free because of a hastily brought prosecution we'll know where the true national threat lies....

...as if we already don't.