What Was the First Hint?

Navy investigation finds contractor charged in US Capitol insurrection was a well-known Nazi sympathizer https://t.co/ChRoREliC7

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The super-obvious Htler cosplaying really makes this, um. I mean, you know what they say about books and covers, but this guy is just putting on Mein Kampf. The awkward thing here:

"I was appalled at how he was slandered in the press in regards to him being a 'white supremacist,'" Sgt. John Getz wrote to the judge. "I have never known him to be this way." 

Getz said he was "proud to have someone like (Hale-Cusanelli) serve under me." (Since his arrest, Hale-Cusanelli has been barred from the Navy base where he worked with Getz.)  

But prosecutors told the judge that this glowing comment "directly contradicts" what Getz told Navy investigators. Getz told the Navy that Hale-Cusanelli was a Holocaust denier who made racist remarks in a "joking but not" way, and that he confronted Hale-Cusanelli about his behavior.  

When FBI agents interviewed Getz about the discrepancy, he said he wasn't personally offended by Hale-Cusanelli's conduct and wanted to "speak positively" about him to the judge.

Uh huh. "Joking but not" and "not personally offended" is how these guys get away with creating unsafe workspaces and generally skating through socially.  It's also how law enforcement missed the threat--they didn't see it as a personal danger to them, until it was.