Remember that DHS Right Wing Terrorist Report?

Remember last year -- or whenever it was -- that DHS released a report warning of the threat of rightwing extremism here in the USofA? Remember the rightwing outcry in which the entire rightwing propaganda machine went into a raging frenzy, claiming the report was another left-wing attack on real Americans? And remember how DHS fell all over themselves to recall the report and grovel at the feet of the right, begging forgiveness for telling the truth?

Remember all that bullshit?

Well, folks, turns out:

1. The report was prepared under the Bush administration, and,

2. The author is a gun-totin', anti-abortion, conservative, three generation Republican Mormon -- who believes the real terrorist threat to the nation is from radical rightwing extremists.

Imagine that.

And now he's speaking out.


Why interview now?

Obviously, I couldn't discuss this with the media while employed at DHS. It took me a year after leaving to finally decide that this was truly the right thing to do. I also wanted to give DHS adequate time to determine whether or not it wanted to reconstitute the domestic non-Islamic terrorism effort. It never did.

Since Obama took office, there have been nearly twenty extremist rightwing attacks and plots, including the killing of almost a dozen police officers in six separate attacks. There have also been militia plots in places like Alaska and Michigan that targeted government officials such as a judge and police. Package bombs were mailed in the DC area. In recent months we had three sovereign citizen related shootings in Florida, Arizona and Texas.

. . .

How does the threat from radical Muslim extremists in the U.S. compare with that of right wing domestic extremists?
During the past 10 years there have been five successful attacks in the U.S. by Muslim extremists, but in the last three years there have been 20 attacks attributed to domestic right wing extremists and the number of fatalities is about equal between the two. There were more firearms possessed by the Hutaree militia than by all 200 of the Muslim extremists arrested in the U.S. since 9/11.

. . .

Have the conditions which affected your conclusions changed since the report was issued?

No. The factors have remained the same - the economy remains sluggish and uncertain; unemployment hovers around 10 percent nationally; Obama is still President; and the 2010 Census results show a changing demographic in America shifting away from a predominantly Caucasian nation.

Has the leak had a chilling effect on the analyst community?

Within the intelligence community at-large, I don't think so. Inside the Department of Homeland Security, I believe it did. Other DHS analysts saw what happened to us - saw leadership backing away from supporting the report and those responsible for writing it. Many left the agency as a result.

My, my.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/07/27/999673/-Remember-the-DHS-report-on-the-threat-of-rightwing-extremism


http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2011/summer/inside-the-dhs-former-top-analyst-says-agency-bowed


This was something that pissed me off
when the administration backed off
because it upset conservatives.

This should be the #1 discussion on M$Greedia

and unbroken chain of dead bodies reaching back to the civil war. all over skin color.

What follows is a detailed listing of major terrorist plots and racist rampages that have emerged from the American radical right in the years since Oklahoma City. These have included plans to bomb government buildings, banks, refineries, utilities, clinics, synagogues, mosques, memorials and bridges; to assassinate police officers, judges, politicians, civil rights figures and others; to rob banks, armored cars and other criminals; and to amass illegal machine guns, missiles, explosives and biological and chemical weapons. Each of these plots aimed to make changes in America through the use of political violence. Most contemplated the deaths of large numbers of people — in one case, as many as 30,000, or 10 times the number murdered on Sept. 11, 2001.

Here are the stories of plots, conspiracies and racist rampages since 1995 — plots and violence waged against a democratic America.

http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/publications/terror-from-the-right

too sickening to do more than skim through and remember the headlines.
thanks.

Does anyone care to explain?

in which these elements of anti-American hate, fear & destruction are bred...