...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...by bully boys.
In a release, Acting U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss called Ethan Melzer, 22, of Louisville, Kentucky, "the enemy within."
She said he plotted to let members of an bully boy group descend on his unit by providing details about its location an security arrangements.
She identified the group he tried to work with as the Order of the Nine Angles, also known as O9A, described in the release as an occult-based neo-Nazi
...adherents of a philosophy that was seen even at the time as pure evil, which makes them either consciously and purely evil, or attention-seeking ratbags. Pick one, or both....
and racially motivated violent bully boy group.
"Melzer was motivated by racism and hatred as he attempted to carry out this ultimate act of betrayal," Strauss said.
William F. Sweeney Jr., head of the FBI's New York office, said: "Melzer declared himself to be a traitor against the United States, and described his own conduct as tantamount to treason. We agree."