Wade Page's Murder of Innocent Sikhs: What are the Feds Doing About Neo-Nazis in the US?

As mainstream media begins to delve deeper into the facts about the troubled life of Wade M. Page (pictured left) the fact remains that his brutal unprovoked murder of six of innocent Sikh Americans in a Wisconsin temple clearly could have been prevented.

Could the signs have been any more clear? His membership in the Hammerskin Nation, close association with the neo-Nazi 'Hatecore' music scene, white supremacist ideology, and desire for 'Holy Racial War' (painfully grandiose neo-Nazi speak for murdering innocent people who don't look like them) was known to Federal authorities, ex-Army associates and former work supervisors. 

Disturbing details are emerging about Page's neo-Nazi nursing student ex-girlfriend Misty Cook too.

According to an article by John Eligon of the New York Times Frau Cook, 31, who was arrested and released on weapons possession charges on Sunday, not only works as a waitress at the Prime Table Family Restaurant less than a mile down the road from the Sikh Temple where the rampage took place; for 3 years she's also been an active member of a Hammerskin Nation support group called Crew 38.

Misty's no doe-eyed fringe member of the movement either. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center's Hatewatch blog, she's active on the Crew 38 online forum under the name "LuLuRoman" and has an eye-popping 856 posts on their Website to her credit. The SPLC also claims she's linked to the Volksfront; a Skinhead group founded in 1994 inside the Oregon State Penitentiary by four inmates convicted of (drum-roll please..) hate crimes.

If he was 'indoctrinated' into the neo-Nazi movement during his less-than-distinguished stint in the US Army, why doesn't the Army or the Defense Department commit resources to keep closer track of discharged soldiers known to be associated with violent right wing extremist groups?

Were the Feds tracking Hammerskin Nation or Crew 38 members? It wasn't that long ago that Former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover called the Black Panther Party "the greatest threat to the internal security of the country" and poured massive resources into COINTELPRO; a vast law enforcement initiative of police harassment, assassination, surveillance, infiltration and other illegal tactics used to dismantle the Black Panther Party.

What's the FBI doing about the dozens of neo-Nazi groups across the nation today? Is it enough? Which groups are active in your state? Check out the SPLC list.