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DHS: Extremist Crackpot Websites Say Conservatives Are Extremist Crackpots

By Joseph Lawler on 8.13.09 @ 11:41AM

Mark Tapscott reports that a FOIA request by the Americans for Limited Government has exposed the DHS's sources for their infamous April report warning of a rise in right-wing extremism. And the truth doesn't flatter Ms. Napolitano and her crew:

Instead of intelligence reports, DHS used unverified allegations and speculations it found on the internet.

DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano's researchers liked one particularly apocalyptic web site so much that they cited it 11 times in their report. This site - called "What It Means" - often warns that the world is about to end, as with this recent headline: "Deaith Star Pandemic of 2009-2012: End of Age Begins."

Sleep tight tonight, folks, because your government knows what it all means.

I wonder if the good folks at What It Means knew that they were the Obama DHS's go-to source.

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Tim| 8.13.09 @ 1:19PM

I see from CBS Evening news last night that they are rolling out the militia threat again.

Bob | 8.13.09 @ 2:12PM

Yes and their source if that paragon of objectivity and accuracy Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Anytime they want to beat the drum of rightwing extremist groups the SPLC can be counted on to give credence to an alarming increase in activity regardless of the facts.

Tim| 8.13.09 @ 2:47PM

The fact is, they'd like nothing better than video of a bunch of pot bellied middle aged guys in camoflage suits yelling at a town hall.

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