White Power Radio Jock:FBI Informant
By Paul Brooks
Times Herald-Record
January 17, 2008
Hal Turner stalked in front of Kingston High School with his neo-Nazi supporters in 2005, tossing white-power taunts at counter-demonstrators.
That was just part of his legacy. He railed against President Bush and Jews, too. He handed out the private addresses of New Jersey Supreme Court justices.
But some government agencies are OK if you work for them — and Turner apparently did.
He was an FBI informant, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, a group that monitors hate groups and extremists.
According to the center, hackers confronted Turner on his Web site Jan. 1 and told him they had broken into Turner's computer server.
What they found were e-mails between Turner and an FBI agent who was apparently Turner's handler. The unidentified hackers posted a July 7 e-mail to the agent. In it, Turner gave the agent a message from someone threatening to kill Sen. Russ Feingold, Democrat of Wisconsin, the center said in a story on its Web site, www.splcenter.org.
"Once again," Turner wrote to the agent, "my fierce rhetoric has served to flush out a possible crazy."
When the e-mails hit a neo-Nazi Web site, Turner shut down his own Web site. "I hereby separate from the "pro-White" movement. I will no longer involve myself in any aspect of it," Turner said.
Yesterday, Turner said the only thing he can say about the FBI allegation is "no comment." The FBI hasn't commented, either.
The center's Mark Potok didn't object to the FBI's use of informants in general. "There is no question these are groups in many, many cases that really do need infiltrating, but ... this goes way over the line. It is like a game of Russian roulette and we are the bait."
Kingston Mayor Jim Sottile was dumbfounded by the revelation of Turner's FBI informant status. "You can't make this stuff up," the mayor said.
Maybe Turner was acting all the time, Sottile said. "But it wasn't an act when he had this whole community in an uproar and cost us $80,000."
SPLC should ask for a Freedom of INformation request involving all of Turner's communication with them. If there are not any active criminal cases, they probably have to hand over the emails.
ReplyDeleteNice job Turner did setting up james Mazzone and Artie Wheeler... everyone laughed when I said Hal had nothing to do with those two when in fact, I knew all along it was Hal who informed on Wheeler when he visited their house right before Roper's rally in DC.
I've been saying for months that Hal is cracking like an egg and ready to throw in the towel. The funniest thing now is that Hal is trying to sell server space. What would be funnier would be if anyone took him up on it...
ReplyDeleteJobless with his marriage on the rocks Hal will soon fall through the cracks and start working the second shift at BK with Chris Drake. LOL.
And now he is back on VNN wondering if he really has been barred from entering the UK. Funny - but he will probably use this to say he is not an informant!
ReplyDeleteI agree raoul - but, ya know, there is bound to be a couple who will take him up on that server space.
Little Harold will be back in a few months. I remember just ten years that being an informant was almost like a kiss of death for a WN. Today, it's totally acceptable within the internet circles to be one.
ReplyDeleteHAL THE NARC TURNER IS GETTING WHAT HE DESERVES NOW FINALLY I CAN REVENGE HIM FOR WHAT HE DID TO MY RADIO STATION 2 YEARS AGO AND NIKKI AND FLOYD KNOW WHAT I MEAN BY THAT LIGHTENING RADIO WAS FORCED TO SHUT DOWN THANKS TO HAL TURNER AFTER HE AND HIS LITTLE BUUT HEADS USED OUR NAME FOR ANOTHER WEBSITE WHICH WE RECEIVED A NOTICE FROM FCC AND FEDERAL OFFICIALS ABOUT IT THAT OUR NAME WAS BEING USED FOR ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES WHICH HAL CREATED AN ACCT UNDER HIS WEBSITE WHICH FORCED US TO BE SHUT DOWN AND THEN HAL CONTACTED BRAVEHOST MAKING CLAIMS THAT OUR WEBSITE WAS USED FOR ILLEGAL ACTIVITES IN WHICH WE WERENT.
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