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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

Thanks for the link... I would also suggest Jayna Davis’ “The Third Terrorist”. I spoke with Jayna shortly after the OU Bombing when Rte66(may she RIP), and I were investigating the people “around” that together online. The people, businesses, connections, etc... that Rte66 and I uncovered were the SAME PEOPLE that Davis uncovered in her investigation of the OKC bombing. The SAME PEOPLE — the SAME PEOPLE that are now working “with” the OK Government in their little “diversity committees” as well! The SAME PEOPLE who gave support to the TERRORISTS who took their flight lessons in Norman, OK, the same people who are continually IGNORED by the FBI in relation to ALL of these TERRORIST incidents...

Sorry, but this topic just REALLY gets to me. These asses are accusing God-Fearing, Freedom-loving Americans of plotting to destroy our country, but INSIST on IGNORING the REAL THREATS, to push their COMMUNIST agenda. These people are WORSE scum than the terrorists themselves... At least the terrorists aren’t afraid to admit they hate us — the liberals like this B**** on the other hand — PRETEND they are PRO-Freedom, PRO-Constitution, PRO-American, when in actuality they have done more to destroy this fabric of this nation — and they have done WAY more damage than any bombing that has EVER happened on American soil! WARS and VIOLENCE we can fight BACK against — INFILTRATION, LIES, and PROPAGANDA are the bigger threat here...


81 posted on 04/16/2009 2:54:02 PM PDT by LibertyRocks ( http://LibertyRocks.wordpress.com ~ ANTI-OBAMA STUFF : http://cafepress.com/NO_ObamaBiden08)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
To the extent veterans read it as an accusation,” Napolitano told FOX News, “an apology is owed.”

This is what is known as the non-apology apology. Instead of being sorry for what she said, she is sorry they were offended by what she said. Slick. A lot of people do this.

82 posted on 04/16/2009 2:54:15 PM PDT by Canticle_of_Deborah (The government turns every contingency into an excuse for enhancing power in itself. - John Adams)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That simple p.o.s. dyke has to resign.... but then, rats never resign in shame because they have none.


83 posted on 04/16/2009 2:54:27 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I saw the interview and she did a great job of shoveling it.

“To the extent veterans read it as an accusation,” Napolitano told FOX News, “an apology is owed.”

How about “to the extent that this entire report is an invention of liberal psychosis, an apology is owed”.


85 posted on 04/16/2009 2:55:17 PM PDT by HonestConservative (http://www.operationvalentine.blogspot.com/)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The 'Serve Janet crow' lamp is lit!

They need some PR folk there, not BS'rs

86 posted on 04/16/2009 2:55:17 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet


Time to put on the special shoes, Rosa.
87 posted on 04/16/2009 2:56:04 PM PDT by dr_who
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
From another thread:

A key House Republican Thursday called for a hearing to investigate a Department of Homeland Security report that highlights security risks posed by extremist groups and disgruntled veterans.

Rep. Peter King (N.Y.), the ranking Republican on the House Homeland Security Committee, has asked for a hearing into the matter, one day after the committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) said he was “dumbfounded” by how the agency could release such a report.

Got that? The Dem Committe Chairman was dumbfounded!

88 posted on 04/16/2009 2:57:56 PM PDT by tsmith130
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To: papasmurf

Note to Napo....apology not accepted!


89 posted on 04/16/2009 2:58:04 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Napolitano told FOX News, “an apology is owed.”

Not good enough. Resign and book a one-way ticket to Zimbabwe or North Korea. Your choice.

After the American revolutionary war, the Tory red coat supporters were thrown out of America, with the unfortunate exception of New York city. Time for history to repeat itself.


90 posted on 04/16/2009 2:58:49 PM PDT by sergeantdave (obuma is the anti-Lincoln, trying to re-establish slavery)
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To: LibertyRocks

Aw, common, tell us what you really think.

Great minds...


91 posted on 04/16/2009 3:00:11 PM PDT by patriciaruth (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993905/posts)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; ExTexasRedhead; ml/nj; LucyT; All
"...I was the United States Attorney for Arizona in the 90s when Tim McVeigh bombed the Murrow building in Oklahoma City and unfortunately he was a vet - that's where he got his training."

As you noticed, 2ndDivisionVet, Napolitano never investigated the Oklahoma City bombing to any significant extent. She merely adopted the Clintonista line that McVeigh and Nichols were the only individuals in the Oklahoma City plot.

The truth is that there is excellent evidence pointing to Saddam Hussein's Iraqi intelligence agents as the masterminds of the bombing, while McVeigh and Nichols were merely pawns in the operation. (See Jayna Davis, The Third Terrorist, Nashville, TN: WND Books, 2004).

92 posted on 04/16/2009 3:01:03 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Timothy McVeigh learned how to make fertilizer bombs in the infantry? Huh?!

No, Timothy learned to make them from his Islamic contacts in the Philipines.

93 posted on 04/16/2009 3:01:07 PM PDT by jetson
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
That doesn't sound like an apology to this veteran!
Timothy McVeigh learned how to make fertilizer bombs in the infantry? Huh?!


Yeah, it sounds more like doubling down on the insult. To invoke Timothy McVeigh in that fashion was despicable.

It also doesn't count as an apology when it starts with any sort of weasel predicate like "to the extent", "if anyone was", etc.
94 posted on 04/16/2009 3:03:09 PM PDT by rockvillem
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I am so sick of Timothy McVeigh being used over and over and over and over again by these left wing lunaTICKS.

99.9% of terrorist acts that I have heard about are committed by MUSLIMS, not God fearing Americans.

They snear at us everyday...

95 posted on 04/16/2009 3:03:47 PM PDT by Dengar01
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What an incredibly lame excuse. She deserves to be fired.


96 posted on 04/16/2009 3:05:16 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The important thing that is being missed her is that we only got a look at the unclassified portion of the document. I’ll bet that the classified portion lays out the plan of action for how they are to deal with “extremists”. Americans should DEMAND that the entire document be released along with the bibliography.


97 posted on 04/16/2009 3:05:23 PM PDT by scottywr ("Birth Certificate? We don neeed no steenkeen birth certificate!")
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To: Republic
McViegh wasnt a militia member, or I doubt listened to Rush. However, he loved “The Turner Diaries” which was written by a Anti Semite. He friend was caught with Indonesian phone numbers in his pocket and then there was the case of “John Doe# 2” who was described as a middle eastern male, who was seen with McVeigh.
If one had to guess, one could say the OK bombing was a Muslim attack. But since McVeigh was executed in record time and the debris from the building was dumped in the ocean, we will never know for sure.
98 posted on 04/16/2009 3:06:53 PM PDT by Yorlik803 ( If this be treason, then lets make the best of it.)
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To: mbarker12474

On another thread someone pointed out that one section of the report was WORD-FOR-WORD a QUOTE from the SPLC (Southern Poverty Law Center), but unattributed. I’d have to investigate that myself as the FReeper didn’t provide more than that, but it wouldn’t surprise me ONE BIT. It SOUNDS like all the drivel the left has spewed out for YEARS on this issue, trying to tear others down and make themselves look “good”.

Some years ago I knew several people who were part of the JPFO (Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership), and after a protest they attended where they wore a “star of David” on their clothes to remind people that GUN CONTROL led to the NAZI’s extermination of Jews, the SPLC actually tried to say these JEWISH PEOPLE who had protested, and were trying to say “Never Again” were actually ANTI-SEMITES and “neo-nazis”! They are very BOLD when it comes to their LIES, that’s for SURE...


99 posted on 04/16/2009 3:07:13 PM PDT by LibertyRocks ( http://LibertyRocks.wordpress.com ~ ANTI-OBAMA STUFF : http://cafepress.com/NO_ObamaBiden08)
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To: DieHard the Hunter

Small correction:

For every ‘veteran’ like Tim McVeigh..THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF MILITARY HEROS AND VETERANS!


100 posted on 04/16/2009 3:07:19 PM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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