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UCmeNdc

(9,589 posts)
Wed Jun 11, 2014, 10:46 PM Jun 2014

Author of DHS' Retracted 2009 Report Warned About Rightwing Extremism Again in 2011

Conservative Republican terror analyst Daryl Johnson's remarks are chilling and prescient in light of weekend shooting in Las Vegas...

In July of 2011, just days after the massacre of 77 mostly children at a youth summer camp by a Rightwing extremist in Norway, Brian Levin, the Director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University interviewed Daryl Johnson, formerly of the Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS).

Johnson was the agency's senior domestic terrorism analyst from 2004 to 2010. He was also the lead author of DHS' April 2009 draft report --- which was, shortly thereafter, retracted under pressure from Republicans, rightwingers and some veterans groups --- entitled "Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment" [PDF].

After the public outcry from the Rightwing victimization industry, the DHS shamefully apologized for working on the report at all, even though it was begun during the Bush Administration; was being produced in response to a mandate from Congress; followed a DHS report on Leftwing extremism [PDF] (which received no similar outraged protestations) in January of 2009; and was authored by Johnson, who describes himself in the interview below as a pro-life, pro-gun, conservative Republican Mormon.


http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10668

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Author of DHS' Retracted 2009 Report Warned About Rightwing Extremism Again in 2011 (Original Post) UCmeNdc Jun 2014 OP
"Rightwing victimization industry" cyberswede Jun 2014 #1
my guess... keeps gridlock in Washington and allows money to continue to roll in for those in charge Leme Jun 2014 #2
Janet Napolitano was vilified by the Right for saying the same Mz Pip Jun 2014 #3

cyberswede

(26,117 posts)
1. "Rightwing victimization industry"
Thu Jun 12, 2014, 09:47 AM
Jun 2014


Though the article itself isn't funny in the least - why on earth do the RW whackadoodles have so much clout?
 

Leme

(1,092 posts)
2. my guess... keeps gridlock in Washington and allows money to continue to roll in for those in charge
Thu Jun 12, 2014, 09:56 AM
Jun 2014
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