Either 1) she was given a prepared script from RAT lawyers who know darned well that terminology isn't in the Constitution but found it useful to confuse the sheeple, 2) she's an idiot who has no idea what she's talking about, or 3) both.
No..., it's much simpler than that...
She (and others) can read blogs as well as you can and they know how those certain bloggers think (and what they could "make hay" with). Leave out the word "American" and watch the blogs crank up big-time... LOL...
With that statement, I think you would be a good candidate for a thought-police!
You don't know a squad about what Fukino is thinking and neither do I!!
Still the press release was was spattered with terminologies not used in the "Real World" of yours!!!