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The vaunted “Left-Wing Extremism” report
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The vaunted “Left-Wing Extremism” report posted at 11:38 am on April 15, 2009 by Ed Morrissey Send to a Friend | Share on Facebook | printer-friendly … is here , courtesy of Jake Tapper . This is the report heralded by counter-critics of the DHS report on “right-wing extremism” that supposedly disproves political bias in the substance-free attack on conservative critics. Except that the report on extremism of the Left is much different than the other DHS report, starting with specifics. While the DHS report focusing on the Right ...
Conservative's Upset About DHS Report Issued Under Auspices Of Bush Appointee
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... And, after years of turning a blind eye to (or outright supporting) Bush-era curtailments of civil liberties, conservatives have predictably ignored reacted with ...
Gingrich defends neo-nazi extremists
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... "Sure", you say, "but that's just the wingnut bloggers. What else would you expect?" True. But that special brand of crazy -- defending neo-Nazi groups -- has now spread beyond the wingnutosphere. ...
I'm Burning, I'm Burning, I'm Burning for You
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The stupid, it buuuurns! Conservatives Decry Homeland Security Report on "Rightwing" Extremism Yesterday, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich tweeted that "The person who drafted the outrageous homeland security memo smearing veterans and conservatives should be fired." Gingrich was referring to this report prepared by the Department of Homeland Security's Extremism and Radicalization Branch, Homeland Environment Threat Analysis Division, and coordinated with the ...
What else is slipping through the cracks at Homeland Security
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... said that because of the massive size of the department -- more than 220,000 employees -- "sometimes things slip through the cracks," and that new internal processes have now been put in place to make sure such a mistake doesn't happen again. When I first read of the report, my first reaction wasn't the outrage that many conservatives and veterans felt, though I certainly shared in that. I was wondering what possible use such a report sent out to police departments could be. It told them that there was a possibility of terrorism from right wing extremists. The report states ...
Senate Guru: The Politicization of Our Safety by Republicans and Right-wingers
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... April 14, 2009: Conservative commentator Sean Hannity intentionally misrepresents the focus of the assessment as targetting "people who have pro-life bumper stickers." ...
Dan Sweeney: We don't negotiate with terrorists
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... of force" in the above definition of terrorism, and then ask yourself what the guy with the assault weapon was doing. Given the events of the past year or so.
Wow. You know, when you set up all the stories right in a row like I did with those half-dozen links, it's almost as if that report that the Department of Homeland Security put out about the dangers of right-wing extremists might have had a little more credibility than conservative leaders gave it.
Back when liberals were being painted as traitors for ...
