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?
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...
Who drafted the report?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2228863/posts
Crazy Homeland Security Warning on Rightwing authored by Brian Marcus - DHS Analyst