Assessing White Supremacist Groups In The U.S.

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Published October 30, 2008 at 1:02 PM EDT

Federal authorities announced Monday that they had broken up a neo-Nazi plot to assassinate presidential candidate Barack Obama. Authorities say Obama was never in any danger.

Mark Potok, director of the intelligence project at the Southern Poverty Law Center, discusses the case and white supremacist groups present in the U.S.

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