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To: Cogito who wrote (301478)	4/17/2009 4:17:27 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	7 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793743

Have you read the report? Yes. Have you? pdf here: michellemalkin.cachefly.net Don't worry, nine pages of hand-waving doesn't take long to read. Were you aware that the part that mentions the recruitment of veterans by extremists refers to a report prepared by DHS under the Bush Administration? No, because it doesn't refer to anything except a 2008 FBI report. It is all vague sweeping generalizations except for the reference to Timothy McVeigh, who is the sole actual extremist mentioned in the paper. And if you reread Steve Benen with any comprehension, you may notice that he doesn't say that this report referred to a report prepared by DHS under the Bush administration - he merely notes that DHS did prepare a report on right-wing extremism during the Bush administration and insinuates that the existence of the previous report validates this waste of time hack job. Nobody ever claimed the subject matter was per se invalid; so his argument is classic propaganda misdirection. It's called a "straw man" argument. Let us only hope that the previous report actually contained something worth reading that might help some law enforcement officer to do his job. This report doesn't. But as a propaganda piece designed to taint the Tea Party events in advance, for that it was well designed. For your information, this is what it actually says about veterans: (U) Disgruntled Military Veterans (U//FOUO) DHS/I&A assesses that rightwing extremists will attempt to recruit and radicalize returning veterans in order to exploit their skills and knowledge derived from military training and combat. These skills and knowledge have the potential to boost the capabilities of extremists—including lone wolves or small terrorist cells—to carry out violence. The willingness of a small percentage of military personnel to join extremist groups during the 1990s because they were disgruntled, disillusioned, or suffering from the psychological effects of war is being replicated today. — (U) After Operation Desert Shield/Storm in 1990-1991, some returning military veterans—including Timothy McVeigh—joined or associated with rightwing extremist groups. — (U) A prominent civil rights organization reported in 2006 that “large numbers of potentially violent neo-Nazis, skinheads, and other white supremacists are now learning the art of warfare in the [U.S.] armed forces.” — (U//LES) The FBI noted in a 2008 report on the white supremacist movement that some returning military veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have joined extremist groups.