Report: 70 House Members to Call on DOJ to Investigate SWATting of Conservative Bloggers
by
Liberty Chick / Breitbart News
Earlier today, Breitbart News reported
that the recent SWATting attacks on several political writers and
commentators have been gaining traction in the mainstream media:
Today, CNN featured a story centering around CNN contributor and RedState managing editor Erick Erickson, the latest victim
in a series of incidents in which an imposter mimics the phone number
of a target, then calls the police and confesses to a violent crime.
Such confessions often result in law enforcement personnel, many times
special weapons and tactics teams (SWAT teams), responding to calls with
full force, risking the life and health of the target. This tactic has
been called SWATting by the FBI.
I have been told that Monday, the House
of Representatives will engage on this and seventy or more members will
formally be sending a letter to Eric Holder, asking him on behalf of
these members of the house to also get the FBI involved.
On the heels of Erickson’s SWATting on May 27th, 2012, Breitbart contributor Lee Stranahan decided to conduct a podcast
late that same evening to discuss the incident; the podcast extended
into the very early morning hours of May 28, 2012. Stranahan had
invited guest Patrick Frey, a deputy district attorney at Los Angeles
County District Attorney's Office who also blogs under the pseudonym Patterico,
to offer insight into his own experience as a victim of SWATting. Frey
was the target of a similar incident in June 2011, an account that Frey
has detailed extensively
at his own blog in recent weeks, in connection with the story of a much
broader, prolonged campaign of alleged lawfare and harassment against a
group of political writers.
What followed on the May 28th podcast was not only unexpected, but shocking.
Partway into the program, at about 49:28,
a caller with an unidentified phone number greeted the two, and then
claimed to be the swatter from Frey’s June 2011 incident.
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