Posted on 05/21/2009 8:32:59 AM PDT by IbJensen
DHS Secretary To Change ‘Rightwing Extremism’ Comments While Lawsuit Against Her Department Moves Forward
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has once again revised her explanation on how a memo declaring veterans potential terrorists and targeting conservative activists came to be published. The revision comes as a lawsuit against Ms. Napolitano that charges constitutional violations progresses.
On May 12, Ms. Napolitano told a House subcommittee the controversial memorandum, titled “Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment,” “was not authorized to be distributed.”
The DHS Secretary said the report was removed from the DHS Web site and it was being “redone” to make it more sensitive to those being targeted. Such statements deviated from what she had previously said.
When news of the report first surfaced, the DHS Secretary stood by it and went as far as to defend it. But as the public outcry grew louder, Ms. Napolitano’s willingness to be connected to the report diminished. Within days she argued that she would have “reworded” the memo to avoid offending veterans.
Such an explanation did not quell dissent, and that forced Ms. Napolitano to apologize to veterans. Her announcement the memo was not published without authorization is just the latest evolution of the story.
Ms. Napolitano’s latest statement was music to the ears of attorneys at the Thomas More Law Center. The public interest firm filed a lawsuit last month on behalf of conservative radio talk show host Michael Savage, Gregg Cunningham, president of the pro-life organization Center for Bio-Ethical Reform, and Iraqi War Marine veteran Kevin Murray. It alleges the DHS memo unconstitutionally targets conservative thinkers and war veterans in violation of their First and Fifth Amendment constitutional rights.
“Since we filed that lawsuit, additional information has been brought to our attention that creates even more concern that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is unconstitutionally targeting Americans merely because of their conservative beliefs,” said Richard Thompson, president and chief counsel of the Law Center. “Moreover, simply removing the report from the DHS Web site, without a condemnation of its contents and specific instructions to all the enforcement agencies receiving it that that it should not be used, is merely hiding the evidence of an insidious ongoing agenda to go after conservative Americans.”
The report, published April 7, detailed what DHS called a resurgence of “right-wing extremism brought about by the current economic downturn and the election of the nation’s first black president.” It was prepared by the Office of Intelligence and Analysis. It also described those who belong to groups that advocate for conservative perspectives on issues such as immigration reform, gun rights and abortion as extremists.
In its lawsuit, the Law Center is requesting a Michigan federal court permanently block the policy of targeting conservatives and war veterans. It is reasoned the policy encourages law enforcement personnel across the country to target individuals based upon their free-speech activities.
Line up next to Nutsy Pelousy!
OK,sweetheart....what is it today? Am I a terrorist? Am I *not* a terrorist? Are are you simply “undecided”?
Not authorized. Oh, well then, that makes it OK, as long as something like this is kept secret, rather than being made public. I truly believe this woman is deranged.
But then, that is a trademark of the political Left.
Like Hitlery she looks real good in a pants suit.
ALL Democrap women are nut cases. And, they’re ugly.
The DHS Secretary said the report was removed from the DHS Web site and it was being “redone” to make it more sensitive to those being targeted.
So again, the issue wasn't with what it said, that part was accurate. It's that the parts the public were allowed to see they weren't supposed to see and that which they get to see will be watered down to have no meaning.
Thanks alot Janet, plan on burning up any Americans you don't agree with any time soon? Are you channeling Reno?
“The election of the first Black president”. Ah, so opposition to Barack’s policies is a threat to National Security.
This mental midget and constitutional neanderthal seems oblivious to the fact that Constitutional violations are prosecutable, whether they are "published" or not. Just ask Richard Nixon about that.
Also, let's remember the famous sign HS Truman kept on his desk, and how that permeates the entire case.
Throwing the idiot under the bus should have no effect in this case, insofar as ultimate responsibily goes.
Now all we have to do is clean the $hit out of the Republicrat Party!
Democrats wage war on Republicans like Republicans wage war on terrorists.
But we still are targeted. I feel so much better now that you are worried about my sensitivities.
Dumbass.
She would look great in jackboots and a big ss sticker on her sleeve.
I can see her now, strutting and shaking her way through the gulag.
Dumbass doesn’t begin to describe these yo-yo, bozo, marxist, nation destroyers that the Kenyan-African has assembled to help him ruin our country.
"Change you can Believe in", buddy.
Are the idiot American voters having buyer's remorse yet?
Speaking of that, if you ever feel uneasy about many people around you having the right (if not the ability) to vote, visit YouTube and check out two series: Americans are not Stupid, and Talking to Americans. I used to laugh when I viewed those. They're (or as the typical voter would write, "their") no longer funny.
Okay, so the problem is that we found out about the memo, not in the memo itself. Got it.
Bingo. If you’re going to target me, please be open about it. That’s all they’re trying to change - they say it shouldn’t have been leaked and that it should have been veiled with indirect language. This is outrageous, Napolitano should have been asked to resign weeks ago, but the fact of the matter is that this is how the administration thinks.
Maybe Joe Biden was the one that revealed that Conservatives were under double secret probation.
That memo is O policy. When they speak about holding ‘terrorists’ indefinitely, they mean our military heroes, our pro life heroes, and of course, those who abhor islamic terrorists.
NEVER trust a dyke named Janet. Do we have a hate crime in the making here?
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