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Janet Napolitano Admits ‘An Apology Is Owed’ ("Right-wing Extremist" Warning)
Fox News ^ | April 16, 2009 | Bill Sammon

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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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Like any pathological behavior she's just sorry she was caught. Rest assured steps will be taken to ensure tighter security of internal memos.
21 posted on 04/16/2009 1:46:53 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; ALOHA RONNIE

> “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.


22 posted on 04/16/2009 1:47:13 PM PDT by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: Grampa Dave

No, no, no, we don’t want her back in AZ. Siberia?


23 posted on 04/16/2009 1:47:54 PM PDT by preciousbabies (Psalm 97:10 "Let those who love the Lord, hate evil.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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.


24 posted on 04/16/2009 1:48:01 PM PDT by kalee (01/20/13 The end of an error.... Obama even worse than Carter.)
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To: kalee

memo not memeo


25 posted on 04/16/2009 1:48:38 PM PDT by kalee (01/20/13 The end of an error.... Obama even worse than Carter.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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.


26 posted on 04/16/2009 1:49:10 PM PDT by Paige ("All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing," Edmund Burke)
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To: preciousbabies

>I agree!
>Would love to sign a petition.

Don’t sign a petition, vote “No Confidence” in your government by buying more ammo!


27 posted on 04/16/2009 1:50:34 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: gorilla_warrior

Janet Gestapolitano.


28 posted on 04/16/2009 1:50:50 PM PDT by SolidWood (Palin: "We do not want to becomes slaves of Washington.")
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To: ExGeeEye
That is right ..... an apology was "owed" if anyone misread the intent of a small piece of the report....after saying that no apology was ever given....It remains "owed" . ....
29 posted on 04/16/2009 1:50:57 PM PDT by merchvent (book cover)
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To: preciousbabies

AGREE


30 posted on 04/16/2009 1:51:01 PM PDT by machogirl (not one of Rush's top-ten gal names)
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To: unkus
Napolitano had better remember all of us Viet Nam “Baby Killer” Vets, too.

This Vietnam vet holds her in the same light as he does Jane Fonda

31 posted on 04/16/2009 1:51:04 PM PDT by clamper1797 (FUBO ... protege of the unholy union of Karl Marx and affirmative action)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

When this piece of dung is finished apologizing to the veterans she can meet with the rest of us.


32 posted on 04/16/2009 1:51:21 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: skeeter

When she submits the names of all involved in the compilation of this report
and submits her resignation

then we’ll say - “apology accepted”.


33 posted on 04/16/2009 1:52:48 PM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, Bowman later)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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!


34 posted on 04/16/2009 1:53:02 PM PDT by eeriegeno (<p>)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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?


35 posted on 04/16/2009 1:53:59 PM PDT by mbarker12474 (If thine enemy offend thee, give his childe a drum.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

““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.


36 posted on 04/16/2009 1:56:44 PM PDT by autumnraine (Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose- Kris Kristoferrson)
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To: preciousbabies

Send her vile lesbo butt to Mexico.


37 posted on 04/16/2009 1:57:08 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Does 0B0Z0 have any friends, who are not criminals, foreign/domestic terrorists, or tax cheats?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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.


38 posted on 04/16/2009 1:57:16 PM PDT by spintreebob
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To: clamper1797

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.


39 posted on 04/16/2009 1:58:15 PM PDT by unkus
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
“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.”

And Bill Ayers was a liberal from Columbia University. How come they are not included?

40 posted on 04/16/2009 2:00:40 PM PDT by HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
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