FBI 2006 Assessment Disclosure Record

PROBLEM: In October 2006 the FBI's Counterterrorism Division produced an intelligence assessment titled "White Supremacist Infiltration of Law Enforcement," warning that white supremacist groups viewed placing members in police ranks as a "desired asset" and that the primary threat was intelligence collection and exploitation — investigative breaches that could jeopardize sources and personnel. The assessment introduced "ghost skins": members who avoid overt displays of their beliefs to blend into institutions and covertly advance the cause from inside. It also recorded that the National Alliance specifically targeted military and law enforcement personnel for recruitment, and that the KKK historically found community support that "often translated into ties to local law enforcement." The assessment stayed classified for years — a redacted version was published by The Intercept in 2017, and the full unredacted document was released by Rep. Jamie Raskin in September 2020. A warning about infiltration sat unread by the public for fourteen years.

SOLUTION: An assessment disclosure record: every federal intelligence assessment on extremist infiltration of public institutions logged with its date, its key judgments, its declassification or release date, and the gap between warning and public knowledge — so a fourteen-year delay between a warning and its release is visible as a delay, not as silence.

EVIDENCE BASIS: DOCUMENTED — FBI Counterterrorism Division Intelligence Assessment, "White Supremacist Infiltration of Law Enforcement," October 17, 2006 (based on FBI investigations and open sources through August 2006); "ghost skins" definition; National Alliance recruitment targeting; KKK community-support finding; redacted publication by The Intercept 2017; full unredacted release by Rep. Jamie Raskin September 2020. Sources: FBI assessment full text (policeissues.org / Just Security); Just Security fact-check (June 1, 2020).