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To: Jim S who wrote (77551)	2/15/2010 12:20:15 PM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

The thing is the Obeyme Admin's Homeland Security dept issued a report last April titled, "Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment" The issues the DHS study claims are the rallying points for radicalism and extremist recruitment are exactly those that animate the national political debate; abortion, illegal immigration, gun rights, race equality and exceptionalism, jobs and how the economic crisis is being handled. They [we] fit the assessment of "extremists" that was "provided to federal, state, local, and tribal counterterrorism and law enforcement officials so they may effectively deter, prevent, preempt, or respond to terrorist attacks" Within the DHS report there is the admission that there is this, "no specific information that domestic rightwing terrorists are currently planning acts of violence, but rightwing extremists may be gaining new recruits by playing on their fears about several emergent issues." So the Obeyme Admin had no problems calling people like me a "domestic rightwing terrorist", "extremist" & "radical", ET AL. If they can spew that kind of calumny against normal, mainstream Americans in a Homeland Security report, why can't they at least be honest about the real terrorist sources?

To: Jim S who wrote (77551)	2/15/2010 12:54:44 PM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90947

Obama says Mirandize, Cheney says waterboard By: Chris Stirewalt Political Editor 02/15/10 9:11 AM EST Wall Street Journal -- Cheney Attacks Obama on National Security Former vice president and wraith of liberal nightmares Dick Cheney took a unusually sympathetic tone in his drubbing of the Obama administration’s national security policy on Sunday. He praised President Obama for a second escalation in Afghanistan and spoke frequently of the difficulty of making security decisions. The Cheney message: It’s not Obama’s fault that he doesn’t know how to protect the country, but his super-slow learning curve is a huge problem for the rest of us. Vice President Biden, sent forth to rebut Cheney from his perch as head of the U.S. delegation in Vancouver, just seemed sort of goofy. Presented with Biden’s assertion that success in Iraq is one of the main accomplishments of the Obama administration, Cheney just laughed it off and said Biden should thank George Bush. Biden also said that a military trial for KSM is possible, an announcement that will make big headaches for the administration. Also – Cheney thinks waterboarding rocks. Cheney said he would have fake-drowned the underwear bombed the underwear bomber in a stent-assisted heartbeat. “Mr. Cheney said interrogators should have had the option to use the ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ his administration approved—including the use of simulated drowning, or ‘water-boarding.’ He called himself ‘a big supporter of water-boarding,’ which critics say amounts to torture. ‘Now, President Obama has taken [those techniques] off the table,’ Mr. Cheney said. ‘He announced when he came in last year that they would never use anything other than the U.S. Army Manual which doesn't include those techniques. I think that's a mistake.’” Read more at the Washington Examiner: washingtonexaminer.com