DHS URGED To Expedite Updated Report On Right Wing Extremism

Jeeze. Now the r/w is claiming the "onus was on DHS to act fast. "The threat of right-wing violence is only increasing"
:wtf: Damned if they do...


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/11/dhs-urged-to-expedite-upd_n_214506.html


Sam Stein
DHS Urged To Expedite Updated Report On Right Wing Extremism

First Posted: 06-11-09 05:01 PM | Updated: 06-11-09 06:01 PM


Recent incidents of extremist violence claiming the lives of abortion provider George Tiller and a security guard at the Holocaust Museum have prompted calls for the Department of Homeland Security to accelerate the release of an updated report on right-wing extremism.

Amid howls that it had politicized national security, DHS stepped back from a mid-April report it had issued on domestic threats from fringe right-wing groups. "The report is no longer out there," Secretary Janet Napolitano told lawmakers, promising to have the report "replaced or redone in a much more useful and much more precise fashion."

Several weeks later, the findings of the original study have been proven prescient, specifically in its warnings about violent acts from anti-abortion zealots and anti-Semites. Now, demands for that follow-up have grown more urgent.

On Thursday, the judicial advocacy organization, People for the American Way, faxed a letter to Napolitano calling on the Department of Homeland Security Chief to "expedite the approval of the 'Rightwing Extremism' report and release a final version as soon as possible."



A researcher on right-wing organizations noted that the security onus was on DHS to act fast. "The threat of right-wing violence is only increasing," said the source, "and Americans could be put at risk if DHS takes too long time to issue a new report or waters the old one down."

Indeed, in the wake of the shooting of a Holocaust Museum security guard by white supremacist James Von Brunn, the original DHS report is getting a more favorable review. Even some critics of the study, who claimed that it compared conservatives and returning veterans to domestic terrorists, acknowledged that their initial reactions may have been hasty and overblown. That said -- and this is important -- the report was never formally pulled, according to a DHS official. Despite reports otherwise, the department, this official said "never retracted the original report." It was, as Napolitano noted in her testimony, "taken off of the intel Web sites." As the official said, DHS "very publicly acknowledged it had flaws."

But, that official added, "We stood by the underlying intel... it was never pulled back from the entities who received it in the first place."

a right wing organization. Far from it. Progressive/Norman Lear

A researcher on right-wing organizations noted that the security onus was on DHS to act fast. "The threat of right-wing violence is only increasing," said the source, "and Americans could be put at risk if DHS takes too long time to issue a new report or waters the old one down."

But now that you mention it, I don't know what org. the researcher was from.

since it says "ON" right-wing organizations. It would have helped for clarity for them to give an identifier though.
I guess he/she wanted to stay anonymous