they carry weight. when our leaders meet with, encourage or fraternise with domestic terrorists, they legitimise their actions and they are complicit. tracy walder is a former fbi special agent and cia operative and currently a professor in criminaljustice at texas christian university. i asked her to explain the motivation behind these us militia groups. i think a general misconception about these groups is that they are all white supremacist. some do have white supremacist leanings, but what they really are are a gathering of mostly males, groups of males, who are arming themselves and are predominantly anti—government. that is what we're seeing, mostly folks that are