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Posted on 04/17/2009 10:06:53 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
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.
Yes 7 senators. Thanks for posting that. Now I know what to write in the returns I send to the RNC when they ask for money.
“Why should I send money to an organization that can’t get 8 signatures on a letter to Nappy?”
I just want to know one thing...
Who wrote the document?
Although I can’t take credit for it - I saw it somewhere else earlier today.
“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.”
...I agree. It’s very important. But as pointed out in post #30, it’s 7 senators! Where are the rest? We need some Ted Nugentesque people that get in faces, call out names and quit with the ...”with all due respect” crap!
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There is a thread where ...Michigan mussies are complaining about the FBI watching them.
“Who wrote the document?”
My guess is that Emanual fellow. Its only 9 pages & he probably has a bunch of them in his file.
LMAO! I think it was Andrew Wilkow who said yesterday, what is it about the left, they find the most androgynous (sp?) butch type morons and put them in positions such as this. (paraphrasing, of course)
That’s probably a campaign photo op. The only time rats are pro gun is when they’re on the campaign trail. Obama in PA is a perfect example.
BTTT
If the summary was that odious, can you imagine what the classified document says?
Well done - thank you Michelle.
As we know, Napo, et al, are now backpeddling and blame-shifting within the DHS re the exact “word-smithing...” of their outrageous hyper-partisan hit peice. I don’t think they have ANY data, whatsoever.
BUT, Napo must be reined in and held fully accountable.
In the short term, Napo will likey try find someone to toss under the bus and this hope this issues fades within a few news cyclies.
What’s most troubling is Napo, Obama, etc., overt manipulation of the DHS to produce such garbage and political propaganda.
Senators to Napolitano: Show us the data
By • 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,
Did you even read it? What is the problem here?
Oh please let them get to see the date and find out that someone at the order of the WH made it up!
OOOPPPPSSS date=data
I think the U.S. Marshals should be on the list — their men at RUBY RIDGE, shot a retreating young boy in the back killing him and his dog, then later an FBI sniper killed the boy’s mother while holding an infant child, all on trumped up charges after entrapment by asking Randy Weaver him to cut the barrel too short on a shotgun...
That was a “crime” justifying the surrounding and siege of a family’s home and killing them?
In my book - the U.S. Marshals, the FBI and the military have a LOT to answer for at both Ruby Ridge and Waco.....
Tim McVeigh even alluded to Ruby Ridge as the act that drove him to take revenge....
Some folks never forget ....or forgive.
some stupid staffer........there was one written in January regarding Left Wing Extremists as well. What dopes......
She mishandled this really bad. She should have demanded an internal review instead of being defensive about it. What a blunder....
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