FBI Charges Suspected White Supremacist Richard Holzer Over Plans to Blow Up Jewish Synagogue

The seal of the F.B.I. hangs in the Flag Room at the bureau's headquaters March 9, 2007 in Washington, DC. F.B.I. Director Robert Mueller was responding to a report by the Justice Department inspector general that concluded the FBI had committed 22 violations in its collection of information through the use of national security letters. The letters, which the audit numbered at 47,000 in 2005, allow the agency to collect information like telephone, banking and e-mail records without a judicially approved subpoena. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

FBI officials have charged a 27-year-old white supremacist who was allegedly planning to bomb the Temple Emanuel Synagogue in Colorado, it was announced on Nov. 4.

A statement by the Department of Justice says Richard Holzer of Pueblo, Colorado, was arrested after allegedly informing undercover FBI agents he was planning to use explosive devices to target the temple, which is the state’s second-oldest synagogue.