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| DHS Backs Down From Non-Islamic Domestic Intelligence Role |
| 2011-06-08 |
| The Department of Homeland Security is limiting the number of investigators of non-Islamic based "domestic terrorism" organizations, returning that role to the FBI. Likewise, it is discontinuing LEO briefings on the subject and will no longer be issuing reports on such groups. This began when, four months into the Obama administration, the DHS issued a report that equated organizations such as the anti-abortion movement, the sovereign citizen movement, several "Christian identity" groups, militia organizations, and States rights and firearms freedom groups, with radical terrorism. Much of the information in that report was provided by the the New York-based Anti-Defamation League and the Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center. The SPLC being a particularly reprehensible organization... When the DHS report on "right-wing extremism" was leaked, Janet Napolitano initially defended it, saying "we must protect the country from terrorism whether foreign or homegrown." But after 20 conservative groups sponsored ads calling for Napolitano's ouster, she said it was disseminated without regular review. |
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