Senators to Napolitano: Show us the data

Michelle Malkin ^

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Senators to Napolitano: Show us the data By Michelle Malkin • April 17, 2009 12:58 PM

Senators Coburn, Brownback, DeMint, Burr, Murkowski, Inhofe, and Vitter sent the following letter to DHS Secretary Napolitano yesterday concerning the DHS conservative hit job:

April 16, 2009

The Honorable Janet Napolitano Secretary The Department of Homeland Security 310 7th street, S.W. Washington, DC 20528-0150

VIA FASCMILLE

Dear Secretary Napolitano,

We write today concerning the release of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) report titled “Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment” prepared by the Extremism and Radicalization Branch, of the Homeland Environment Threat Analysis Division.

While we agree that we must fight extremists who are both foreign and domestic we are troubled by some of the statements your department included as fact in the report titled above, without listing any statistical data to back up such claims.

First, your report states that “Returning veterans possess combat skills and experience that are attractive to rightwing extremists…” without listing any data to support such a vile claim against our nation’s veterans.

Second, the report states that the millions of Americans who believe in the Second Amendment are a potential threat to our national security. Why? Do you have statistics to prove that law-abiding Americans who purchase a legal product are being recruited by so-called hate groups?

Thirdly, the report states that those that believe in issues such as pro-life legislation, limited government, and legal versus illegal immigration are potential terrorist threats. We can assure you that these beliefs are held by citizens of all races, party affiliation, male and female, and should not be listed as a factor in determining potential terror threats. A better word usage would be to describe them as practicing their First Amendment rights.

Also, you list those that bemoan the decline of U.S. stature and the loss of U.S. manufacturing capability to China and India as being potential rightwing extremists. We would suggest that the millions of Americans who have lost their jobs in the manufacturing industry to foreign countries are not potential terror threats, but rather honest Americans worried about feeding their families and earning a paycheck.

In closing, we support the mission of DHS in protecting our country from terror attacks and are proud of the many DHS employees who make this possible in conjunction with our state and local law enforcement. We ask that DHS not use this report as a basis to unfairly target millions of Americans because of their beliefs and the rights afforded to them in the Constitution. We also ask that you provide us with the data that support the unfair claims listed in the report titled above and to present us with the matrix system used in collecting and analyzing this data?

Finally, we look forward to your prompt reply and we offer our assistance to DHS in our shared effort to fight terrorism both home and abroad by using data that is accurate and independent of political persuasion.

[albie]

...with all due respect blah, blah, blah.

[Frantzie]

The oustanding Thomas Moore Law Center (TMLC) has two lawsuits for this info and Michael Savage is helping too.

TMLC does great work and is for religious and Constitutional rights.

[DuncanWaring]

If veterans should be watched because of Tim McVeigh, shouldn’t Muslims be watched because of Osama bin Laden and Mohammad Atta?

[ClearCase_guy]

I don't have to show you any stinkin' data!

[NMEwithin]

Good point

[Enterprise]

Bump

[PhiKapMom]

My two Senators strike again along with Sen DeMint and several others. Seeing a pattern developing. You all need to send like minded Senators to DC to get it turned around. These people are not afraid to speak out when they see a wrong.

[bolobaby]

YOU ASK TOO MANY QVESTIONS!

[lewislynn]

DHS...Yet another tax sucking bureaucratic tool for anti-americans...Thank you George Bush

[GOPJ]

First, your report states that “Returning veterans possess combat skills and experience that are attractive to rightwing extremists…” without listing any data to support such a vile claim against our nation’s veterans.

Napolitano's a vile stupid women -

and I'm not saying all women are stupid because that would be sexist.

I'm saying Napolitano's stupid and vile and narrow minded and prejudiced.

How dare she decide that ALL conservatives are Timothy McVeigh. How dare she take out her hatred of the military out on all veterans.

She paints conservatives with one broad brush - and doesn't have the wit to see she's the hater? I wonder if she even knows a conservative.

[Uncle Miltie]

B*tch slapping Napolitano. Way to go.

First Amendment expression, Second Amendment support, Tenth Amendment rights, or honorable military service should not cause the Government to target you for investigation.

[xtinct]

Closer to home:

Shouldn't Muslims be watched/scutinized because those terrorists who downed the WTC killing over 3,000 innocents were Muslim.

Shouldn't ACORN be watched/scrutinized for terrorizing the innocent men/women and their families because they took rightfully earned bonuses (whether we like it or not) from AIG? Bus tours around their homes... puhleeze!!!

And what about Code Pinkos, Enviros, etc.?????

[bmwcyle]

Fly them at your home now. The more they see, the better.

ALSO

or if you are NAVY

Show Janet we should all be watch, she won't know where to start.

[Ann Archy]

BUTCH Slapping...

[Enterprise]

Shouldn’t Obama be watched because he bowed to a foreign king, and he was schooled in a madrassa as a yute?

[webschooner]

Yes, and remember that ax murderer b!tch that TX exectued a few years back? Therefore women must be watched. Therefore Nappy must be watched.

Dangerous Left Wing Radical Extremist

"Guns for me but not for thee"

[Kansas58]

This stuff is important.
If they did nothing at all, you would complain about them doing nothing.
We have to fight the Marxists on all fronts.

[ontap]

Murdering Muslims can't be called terrorists but conservative Americans can. (U) Key Findings (U//LES) The DHS/Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) has no specific information that domestic rightwing*

terrorists

are currently planning acts of violence, but rightwing extremists may be gaining new recruits by playing on their fears about several emergent issues. The economic downturn and the election of the first African American president present unique drivers for rightwing radicalization and recruitment.

[Gator113]

Hell no. That would offend their constituents and the ones they love.