DHS pulls extremist report

| May 14, 2009

The Washington Times confronted DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano on her department’s report IDing veterans as dangerous extremists with terrorist potential;

“The wheels came off the wagon because the vetting process was not followed,” Ms. Napolitano told the House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday.

“The report is no longer out there,” she said. “An employee sent it out without authorization.”

There ya go – it’s not her fault. Someone sabotaged her. The American Legion national commander weighs in;

David K. Rehbein, commander of the American Legion, said the withdrawal of the report “validates our objections.”

“It did not contain any evidence,” Mr. Rehbein said. “It was an unfair and unsubstantiated stereotype based on Timothy McVeigh.”

The report also said “rightwing extremism” may include groups opposed to abortion and immigration, among several other threat assessments.

Some have called it a strictly partisan attack on the Obama Administration, but that’s not exactly true;

Rep. Christopher Carney, Pennsylvania Democrat, said that as a veteran he “took offense personally,” and his constituents were offended by the report as well.

“It really hit home hard to me and in our district,” Mr. Carney said. “It’s not a good start when I go to town hall meetings and I hear people calling for your resignation.”

Of course some low-level GS employee is going to take the heat;

Asked whether the person who wrote the report is still employed, Ms. Napolitano said, “Appropriate personnel action is being taken.”

Is there room under that bus for every general schedule federal employee in DC?

Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Terror War, Usual Suspects

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Any word on how Charles Johnson feels about this? What with it all being a trumped up issue and all….

me

Isn’t Napolitano on the short list for Supreme Court Justice?

UpNorth

#2, yeah she is, according to various news outlets, along with Jennifer Granholm. God help us all.

Spade

“Is there room under that bus for every general schedule federal employee in DC?”

“Appropriate personnel action is being taken” = “at most we transferred a guy because unless they abduct, rape, and eat a child it’s a big pain to fire a GS. We were going to yell at him but it would’ve gotten a union complaint filed”

Scrapiron

“Escaped Mental Patient stars in IVAW/VoteVets”. an investigation of Homeland Insecurity may reveal another agency led by an excapee from a facility for the insane. Democrats have put themselves in a position (brainwashed) that they all need mental health care or locked away from the public. Name one democrat in a leadership position who can be trusted. They aren’t there. O’Dumbo, Reid, and Peeloshi have shown themselves to be totally insane. Frank, Schumer and Murtha have proven they should be locked away for life for crimes against humanity.

defendUSA

Yeah, spread the blame around, Nappy. Knock yourself out. The damage was done, you lame SFB.

AW1 Tim

Thing is, this makes it even worse. Now they can rewrite it they way they WANT to, and issue it out under a “not for public disclosure” to LEO’s all over the country.

They can effectively say that the report is no longer available, and that will be true. What we won’t know is the extent or contents of any NEW report, and how widely it was/has been disseminated.

Respects,

j3

Yeah, the big ‘error’ was that the peons were allowed to get hold of the report, that is all she was upset about.
And she has pointedly NOT apologized to any of the other groups – Christians or Jews, other religious ( non-muzzie) persons, home schoolers, pro-lifers, pro-Second Amendment, Fair Tax, Libertarian or Constitutionalist people. So may we assume that we are all still ‘on the list’?

OldTrooper

As I mentioned to my congressman in an email I sent him; it’s too late for “pulling it back”. The drooling moonbats have been using it in every way conceivable to bolster their own agenda and they have no inclination to stop, just because the report was recalled. The damage and defamation has been done. This stupid woman should be out of a job, post haste.