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Coast Guard officer accused of making hit list of Democrats, TV journalists

GREENBELT, Md. (AP) – Federal authorities say a Coast Guard officer who espoused white supremacist views and dreamed of mass murder drew up a computer-spreadsheet hit list of Democratic politicians and TV journalists.
 
Lt. Christopher Paul Hasson, who worked at Coast Guard headquarters in Washington as an acquisitions officer on a program to equip the agency with advanced new cutters, faces a federal court hearing Thursday on gun and drug offenses.
 
But prosecutors say those charges are just “tip of the iceberg.”
 
The 49-year-old Hasson was arrested last week.

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