Posted on 04/16/2009 1:39:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Acknowledging that “an apology is owed,” Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano promised Thursday to “meet and clear the air” with veterans groups that were offended by her agency’s report citing “returning veterans” as terrorist risks to the U.S.
“To the extent veterans read it as an accusation,” Napolitano told FOX News, “an apology is owed.”
“I’ll meet with the leaders of some of the veterans groups,” she promised on “FOX & Friends.” “The last thing we want to do is offend or castigate all veterans. To the contrary, let’s meet and clear the air.”
Napolitano said she was briefed on the report, including the warning about returning veterans, before it was released.
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“I have to tell you, I was the United States Attorney for Arizona in the 90’s when Tim McVeigh bombed the Murrow building in Oklahoma City and unfortunately he was a vet — that’s where he got his training,” she said. “And so when I was told about the report, it rang true with me. This has happened in the past.”
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> “I have to tell you, I was the United States Attorney for Arizona in the 90’s when Tim McVeigh bombed the Murrow building in Oklahoma City and unfortunately he was a vet — that’s where he got his training,” she said. “And so when I was told about the report, it rang true with me. This has happened in the past.”
What a silly thing for her to say. For every veteran like the evil Timothy McVeigh there is a veteran like the heroic Rick Rescorla.
No, no, no, we don’t want her back in AZ. Siberia?
Another one of those “I apologize if you’re offended” apologies, instead of the warranted “I apologize because what I said was wrong” apology.
Memeo to Janet...not good enough.
memo not memeo
The Vets did not get an apology and did you notice the word “SOME”, she would meet with “SOME”?
They are being pressured. The Media may not report this, but the reactions tell us all we need to know.
>I agree!
>Would love to sign a petition.
Don’t sign a petition, vote “No Confidence” in your government by buying more ammo!
Janet Gestapolitano.
AGREE
This Vietnam vet holds her in the same light as he does Jane Fonda
When this piece of dung is finished apologizing to the veterans she can meet with the rest of us.
When she submits the names of all involved in the compilation of this report
and submits her resignation
then we’ll say - “apology accepted”.
Nepolitano reminds me of a pitbull in reverse. A pitbulls jaw muscles end at its anus and Janet’s anal muscles end in her jaw, which probably explains all of the $hit she speaks!
Other questions for Napolitano and the DHS:
1. Why is the report and most paragraphs marked “for official use only?” On what basis is this marking used for these specific paragraphs, which contain nothing specific, nothing actionable, nothing tactical, nothing revealing data sources, etc.
2. Same question for the LES markings. Why? How can these paragraphs be marked LES when the document contains no tactical, no detailed, no actionable content?
3. Show us the data that right wing groups which have a history of violent behavior and violent preparations have increased their membership or activities as a result of the so-called historic election, or the election of black President.
4. What are all the sources of the chatter to which the DHS report refers? Are these exclusively sources from groups with previous and planned actual violent activites? What websites are included in the reports claims about chatter?
5. Name names. Who drafted the report? Name all managers in the chain of command who handled and approved and passed along this report.
6. What practical difference is there between a report that smears wide swaths of Americans by making “accusations”, and a report that smears by making an “assessement.”
7. You may claim that the document and your agency are only interested in violent groups, and groups planning illegal actions, but the document itself does not say this in the text itself. How can you continue to support this document, and not renounce and refute this document, when the document as it stands does not, in its text, target violent right wing groups, but targets a wide spectrum of traditional, American, conservative, Christian, libertarian political thinking with a broad brush?
““To the extent veterans read it as an accusation,” Napolitano told FOX News, “an apology is owed.”
They didn’t READ IT WRONG YOU NINNY, you SAID IT.
Send her vile lesbo butt to Mexico.
Let them paint 5 different types of people as terrorist.
Then let them retract the terrorist designation on one of those 5 types of people.
If there is no objection, they have effectively divided and conquered. They have effectively built a concensus that the 4 remaining types of people are indeed terrorist inclined.
This is the same game they do with the money. They propose a 1.3 Trillion dollar program. Spector-Snowe convince them to trim a couple billion off of it and now they have a concensus for the program. Anyone who objects is obviously not reasonable because they “compromised”.
Too often we get sucked into appearing to validate their game and lose the media war, not just because the media is biased, but also because many of us don’t realize what game we’ve been sucked into.
This Vietnam vet holds her in the same light as he does Jane Fonda
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This one does too. These fools don’t even realize or understand what a lot of Vietnam Vets have pent up inside.
And Bill Ayers was a liberal from Columbia University. How come they are not included?
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