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MORE ON THAT DHS “DOMESTIC TERRORISM” REPORT, from Powerline. I’m just happy to see that someone in…
Instapundit —
... MORE ON THAT DHS “DOMESTIC TERRORISM” REPORT, from Powerline. I’m just happy to see that someone in the Obama Administration is willing to use the “T” word at all. Maybe next they’ll apply it to actual terrorists. Baby steps. . . . ...
The DHS Report
The Corner on National Review Online —
... ] This Powerline analysis looks like the best criticism so far. I'm off to deal with edits to my magazine piece, and then I'm taking a nap or launching cocktail hour, whichever comes first. ...
This is the Way Bipartisanship Ends. Not with a Bang but a Slander.
The Sundries Shack —
... agency seal on the cover page. Indeed, the left wing, smelling a sweet ideological savour, has flocked to stories about the report like creepy English villagers to a wicker man hoping to catch a glimpse of a burning right-winger. Janet Napolitano, the Secretary of DHS, needs to be fired tomorrow. The report is just that bad . Michelle Malkin , Donald Douglas , Stacy McCain , William Jacobson , Ed Morrissey , Q and O , John Hinderaker , and Eli Lake each have taken on all or part of this alleged ...
Anderson Cooper’s Point of View on DHS Hit Job on the Right
GayPatriot —
... for stoking “rightwing extremism.” One of the spokespeople said he was told that the report has been in the works for a year. My b.s. detector went off the chart, and yours will, too, if you read through the entire report — which asserts with no evidence that an unquantified “resurgence in rightwing extremist recruitment and radicalizations activity” is due to home foreclosures, job losses, and…the historical presidential election.
John Hinderaker finds the report short on specifics:
Weirdly, however, the report makes no effort to document ...
The word of the week is “crazy”
The Anchoress —
... Powerline also notes the advance of the crazy right-wingers” narrative that received a boost yesterday with the leak of the latest DHS assessment on threats from the far-right. The document may not have been written with the intention of tarring all people of the right with the same brush, but I suspect ...
Goldberg falsely claims that DHS reports never “use the all-purpose term ‘left-wing.’”
Think Progress —
Joining the chorus of conservative voices that are hyperventilating over the recently-leaked Department of Homeland Security report on “rightwing extremists,” National Review’s Jonah Goldberg wrote yesterday that though “DHS has done reports on anti-war, environmental, and other groups,” it was his “understanding is that they didn’t — and wouldn’t — use the all-purpose term ‘left-wing’ to describe those threats.” Later in the day, when a reader pointed him to an April 2001 DOE report ...
About that DHS report
Political Animal —
... (ranking Republican on the House Homeland Security Committee) and John Hinderaker of PowerLine whether they still consider the threat of right-wing terrorism to be mere Obama Administration fantasy. (That's beside the fact that the report was ordered up during the Bush Administration.) Greg Sargent ...
