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American Spectator
November 19, 2017
Nonetheless, the FBI actually claimed that veterans who challenge the government are suffering from “Oppositional Defiance Disorder (ODD).” One of the program's first targets was 26-year-old decorated Marine veteran Brandon Raub. Due to posting anti-government statements on his Facebook page, theÃâà...
Richmond Times-Dispatch
June 22, 2015
In a last-minute agreement before his scheduled trial, Brandon J. Raub, 29, pleaded no contest in Chesterfield Circuit Court to a misdemeanor count of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, reduced from taking indecent liberties with a minor, a felony. In exchange, the prosecution withdrew twoÃâà...
wtvr.com
July 7, 2014
Brandon Raub, the former Marine arrested by federal agents and committed to a mental hospital last year after posting anti-government messages on Facebook, is accused of sex crimes against a teenage girl. Chesterfield police said that the 28-year-old was charged last week with indecent liberties with aÃâà...
WVTF
April 8, 2014
It's been nearly two years since 29-year-old Brandon Raub began posting things on his Facebook page – things that scared friends and the federal government. Honorably discharged from the Marines after serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, Raub became convinced that 9/11 was a U.S. governmentÃâà...
Business Insider
July 31, 2013
We broke down how the system allows for NSA analysts to search "nearly everything a typical user does on the Internet," including metadata, the content of emails, the content of social media, Internet browsing activity and more. Greenwald notes one thing that is sure to freak out privacy-minded FacebookÃâà...
Huffington Post
September 12, 2012
What happened to 26-year-old decorated Marine Brandon Raub — who was targeted because of his Facebook posts, interrogated by government agents about his views on government corruption, arrested with no warning, labeled mentally ill for subscribing to so-called “conspiratorial” views about theÃâà...
Business Insider
August 30, 2012
brandon raub Raub served as a Marine combat engineer in Iraq and Afghanistan from 2005 to 2011, earning the rank of sergeant. YouTube/TRIFreedomUnderFire The former Marine who was unlawfully detained and placed in a psychiatric institution by authorities is filing a civil lawsuit against governmentÃâà...
WWBT
August 28, 2012
A Chesterfield Marine is speaking out for the first time following being taken into custody after concern over his Facebook posts. A lengthy video clip of Brandon Raub was released by the Rutherford Institute Tuesday. The clip shows Raub speaking with John Whitehead, Constitutional Attorney and President of TheÃâà...
Business Insider
August 20, 2012
"I'm currently in John Randolph in the psychiatric ward being held against my will," Brandon Raub, 26, said in a telephone interview with the Times-Dispatch. "They were ... Chesterfield Police assisted federal authorities in their efforts to interview Brandon J. Raub on Thursday, Aug. 16. After speaking toÃâà...
