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The Associated Press: Republicans criticize report on right-wing groups
16 hours ago WASHINGTON (AP) Republicans on Wednesday said a Homeland Security Department intelligence assessment unfairly characterizes military veterans as right-wing extremists. House Republican leader John Boehner described the report as offensive and called on the agency to apologize to ...
Napolitano Defends Homeland Security Report on Right-Wing Extremism
washingtonpost.com — Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from... the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. ... (more) Napolitano Defends Homeland Security Report on ...
Homeland Security Report Warns Of Rising Right-Wing Extremism
huffingtonpost.com — If you think the conservative "Tea Party" movement is daunting then take a look at a new... report issued by the Department of Homeland Security that says right-wing extremism is on the rise throughout the country. Reuters sums up some of the ... (more) Homeland Security Report Warns Of Rising Right-Wing ...
Obama Report on "Right-Wing Radicals" Timed for Tea Parties
Obama Report on "Right-Wing Radicals" Timed for Tea Parties
rushlimbaugh.com — RUSH: I had a report, I got this at 2:30 yesterday afternoon. I just didn't have a... chance to work it in yesterday. It's this Department of Homeland Security report, it's nine pages, I've got the PDF here, and, by the way, this speech of Obama's and ... (more) Obama Report on "Right-Wing Radicals" Timed for Tea Parties
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Janet Napolitano’s Extremist Makeover tour
Michelle Malkin — ... I’m calling it the Extremist Makeover tour. She offered an apology to veterans, saying it wasn’t her intention to offend. It may not have been the intention of the report authors or Napolitano to offend or overreach, but that was certainly the effect. And it remains a mystery why Napolitano felt it necessary to distribute a shoddy nine-page report that was supposedly in the works under the Bush administration for a year, as Napolitano claims, containing zero data backing up the claim of a “resurgence” of rightwing extremist violence — and was padded with analysis from the ...

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano APOLOGIZES To Veterans Over DHS Report
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano was feeling the heat over the Obama Administration’s controversial DHS report targeting rightwing extremism. ...

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"To continue to use McVeigh as an example of the stereotypical 'disgruntled military veteran' is as unfair as using Osama bin Laden as the sole example of Islam"
Jihad Watch — ... lone nut or member of a tiny group like McVeigh, but represents a broad movement within Islam -- one that will continue to grow as long as it is not confronted, and its very existence is denied on pain of charges of "Islamophobia." How can anyone formulate a strategy to counter a movement that one won;t admit even exists, or else continually minimizes in terms of its size, influence, and staying power? "Republicans criticize report on right-wing groups," by Eileen Sullivan for AP, April 15 (thanks to Ray): WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans ...

Jon Soltz: Military Training On Extremists Preying on Servicemembers
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Yesterday, there was a big hubbub manufactured by the American Legion and Republicans surrounding the Department of Homeland Security finding that there is a possibility that returning veterans who were facing issues reintegrating into society could be recruiting targets for extremist groups. ...

The DHS intel assessment, reaction to, fallout therefrom
Argghhh! The Home Of Two Of Jonah's Military Guys.. — ... . Now, one of the other big players in the veteran business (and their national headquarters is here in Kansas City) is the VFW, the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Their boss, Glenn Gardner, Jr, took a different tack from Mr. Rehbein :That generated at least one email to the VFW national HQ, which I was cc'd on: There's some annoyed veterans of foreign wars out there. I eat lunch with one of them.

Jonathan Falwell and Other Right Wingers Put the 'Reaction' in 'Reactionary' Via Response to DHS Report on Extremists
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash — ... ? The fact is, this report is one of many detailing threats from extremists of all kinds. Two months ago, DHS published a report of left-wing extremist groups (research for both reports started with the previous administration's DHS). All too often, violence comes from hate, which almost always comes from fear. Now that we're in a recession and being led by the nation's first black president, there's bound to be more fear and hate brought up to the surface. If the ...

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