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Veterans a Focus of FBI Extremist Probe
The Wall Street Journal ^ | 04-18-09 | CAM SIMPSON and GARY FIELDS

Posted on 04/18/2009 7:06:50 AM PDT by euram

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To: Zevonismymuse

I saw that........man, she looks scary. Good thing the DHS is after her... /sarcasm


21 posted on 04/18/2009 7:55:06 AM PDT by tioga
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To: MinuteGal

100% correct


22 posted on 04/18/2009 7:55:52 AM PDT by My Favorite Headache (An oath to a liar is no oath at all)
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To: Doogle

She should go, ok, but she’s a mere tool.

This is Obama, Axelrod, Emmanuel, Holder and whoever is behind the scenes behind them.

O himself has said “It’s my job to provide the VISION”.

That’s admitting that the direction if not the details of management is Obama’s.

Think Ayers, think Dohrn, think Jeremiah Wright, Calypso Louie, etc.

If you’re not outraged enough, think of this:

Think of all the soldiers who have given their lives in Iraq, Afghanistan and even elsewhere not made public. Think of their grieving but very proud families and friends.

Now even this pride is stripped from them by a CIC who orders their surviving comrades who did come back home to be looked at as potential terrorists.

Meanwhile the words terrorism and war on terror involving Islamic extremists have been stripped from the vocabulary.

So let’s get this straight...the only certainly-innocent-of potential-terrorism U.S. soldiers are the ones who died over there.

But by tainting all the living, they are also tainting the dead...for it they had lived they too would be tainted, and all their brothers they died to protect are now tainted.

And their families have a new grief to bear.


23 posted on 04/18/2009 7:56:06 AM PDT by txrangerette (Just say "no" to the Obama Cult.)
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To: Free America52
The libs do not like the military, never did.

They despise anything military, especially their own.

It is a projection instrument of evil capitalism and control to them.

This military has vanquished all their heros.

The individual soldiers are especially evil (to them).

Also, they project their own evil hearts onto the military.

Therefore, in their mind, the military is evil, and if left unchecked, will userp their power and defeat them...especially the veterans, who have proven they are anti everything the libs hold dear, and that have displayed hostility to those things.

How can they not just KNOW that veterans are out to get them??

24 posted on 04/18/2009 7:58:02 AM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a momma deuce)
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To: tobyhill
Everyone of us Vets have been monitored.

That is a lot of monitoring going on out there!

/ foghorn leghorn voice

25 posted on 04/18/2009 8:00:11 AM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a momma deuce)
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To: wombtotomb; Izzy_Box

THANK YOU! Marking this for later, and a ping. :)


26 posted on 04/18/2009 8:04:44 AM PDT by LibertyRocks ( http://LibertyRocks.wordpress.com ~ ANTI-OBAMA STUFF : http://cafepress.com/NO_ObamaBiden08)
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To: txrangerette

Gestapolitano is merely one head of the hydra.


27 posted on 04/18/2009 8:05:15 AM PDT by LibertyRocks ( http://LibertyRocks.wordpress.com ~ ANTI-OBAMA STUFF : http://cafepress.com/NO_ObamaBiden08)
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To: euram
The FBI documents show the bureau was working with investigators inside the nation's uniformed services "in an effort to identify those current or former soldiers who pose a domestic terrorism threat." The other agencies working with the FBI are the U.S. Army Criminal Investigative Division, the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service.

Sounds to me like FReepers are getting hot under the collar without much basis. If the investigative wings of each of the military services is involved in the effort, it's extremely unlikely that veterans in general are being targeted, and very likely that the main sources of information about who to target for investigation are within the military services.

There ARE attempts to recruit current and former members of our armed forces to join various groups which can reasonably be regarded as dangerous extremists. Recently discharged veterans are in a good position to be maintaining contact with "extremist" sympathizers of various stripes who are still in active military, and some outside groups are very likely to be trying to get members into the military by taking advantage of the currently high recruiting needs which tend to lower screening standards. We don't need infiltration of our armed forces by outside groups that seek to disrupt its activities, and it sounds to me like that's what this effort is aiming to head off.

What I'm not seeing/hearing is any specific complaints from rational militia groups that they have evidence that veteran-members of their groups have actually been targeted. When I hear that (and I'm pretty confident that FR would be one of the first places such complaints would be publicized), I'll get worried.

28 posted on 04/18/2009 8:13:52 AM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: LibertyRocks

I seriously doubt that Napolitano had anything to do with this line of investigation, and she probably still knows very little about it. She gets briefings, undoubtedly tailored for clueless agency figureheads, and thus devoid of meaningful specific information. She knows what the heads of the investigating agencies want her to know, and nothing more.


29 posted on 04/18/2009 8:16:56 AM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: euram

Operation Vigilant Eagle?

More like Defecating Buzzards...


30 posted on 04/18/2009 8:17:00 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Pres__ent Obama's own grandmother says he was born in Kenya. She was there.)
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To: txrangerette
eloquently said
31 posted on 04/18/2009 8:17:13 AM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: GovernmentShrinker
The Federal Bureau of Investigation earlier this year launched...

Knowing what we know about Ruby Ridge, Waco, and the OKC Bombing, if you're not worried by now, you're opinion doesn't really count for much.

But hey, prattle on if you like.

32 posted on 04/18/2009 8:22:14 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Pres__ent Obama's own grandmother says he was born in Kenya. She was there.)
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To: DoughtyOne

I didn’t know that the investigative agencies of all 3 branches of the US military were involved in Ruby Ridge, Waco, or the OKC bombing. If you know otherwise, please share. This is not an independent FBI operation or FBI+state law enforcement operation, and the military investigative agencies are perfectly capable of raising a red flag without our backseat-driver help, if one needs to be raised.


33 posted on 04/18/2009 8:29:29 AM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: DoughtyOne
"Knowing what we know about Ruby Ridge, Waco, and the OKC Bombing, if you're not worried by now, you're opinion doesn't really count for much."

BWHAAAAAA!!!
Now-now Ron, is that any way to show a bipartisan attitude (w/ GovermentStinker, anyway)???

"But hey, prattle on if you like."

Don't know 'bout the stinker, but I'm just about all prattled out. {g}

34 posted on 04/18/2009 8:30:25 AM PDT by Landru (Arghh, Liberals are trapped in my colon like spackle or paste.)
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To: tioga
I saw that........man, she looks scary.

Isn't it just pathetic? Stephanie's remarks were so on the mark. She just wants people to talk about how great America is. I have known Stephanie Browning her entire life and she is a wonderful human being and a great American.

Stephanie Browning speaking at the end of video

35 posted on 04/18/2009 8:32:35 AM PDT by Zevonismymuse
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To: Rider on the Rain
Kipling nailed it. A couple of more relevant stanzas:

Yes, makin' mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep
Is cheaper than them uniforms, an' they're starvation cheap;

And the last, perceptive one (my emphasis):

For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Chuck him out, the brute!"
But it's "Saviour of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot;
An' it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' anything you please;
An' Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool -- you bet that Tommy sees!

36 posted on 04/18/2009 8:34:52 AM PDT by Oatka ("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
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To: euram

Hussein will be worse than Hitler.


37 posted on 04/18/2009 8:38:05 AM PDT by bgill (The evidence simply does not support the official position of the Obama administration)
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To: GovernmentShrinker
There ARE attempts to recruit current and former members of our armed forces to join various groups which can reasonably be regarded as dangerous extremists.

Got any examples of these groups and any specific evidence you'd like to share?

38 posted on 04/18/2009 8:39:15 AM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: going hot

Don’t doubt it. It maybe a lot of monitoring but that would be the only way they could separate who they claim they’re “only” targeting.


39 posted on 04/18/2009 8:39:48 AM PDT by tobyhill ("Hope and Change" is so overrated!)
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To: MinuteGal

This is so infuriating....what can we do to stop this?

Damn Congress is out of control and won’t listen to the little people anymore.


40 posted on 04/18/2009 8:49:32 AM PDT by Halgr (Once a Marine, always a Marine - Semper Fi)
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