(MENAFN) Federal prosecutors declared that a U.S. Coast Guard lieutenant working in Washington D.C. plotted a mass attack "on a scale rarely seen in this country."
Christopher Paul Hasson was nabbed on Feb. 15 on drug and gun offences, as he had written a target record of key politicians and reporters, according to prosecutors.
They added: "The defendant is a domestic terrorist, bent on committing acts dangerous to human life that are intended to affect governmental conduct."
From January 2017 to January 2019, "the defendant conducted online searches and made thousands of visits for pro-Russian, neo-fascist, and neo-Nazi literature."
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