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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWho here remembers when Janet Napolitano tried to WARN us?
https://thinkprogress.org/republicans-blasted-obama-administration-for-warning-about-right-wing-domestic-terrorism-de556496606c/She was forced to take the report down in the face of near universal condemnation by Republicans and Conservatives of all stripes.
Perhaps if they had heeded her, those toxic groups might not have grown so big so fast...
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Who here remembers when Janet Napolitano tried to WARN us? (Original Post)
annabanana
Aug 2017
OP
Yes, I remember it well and wondered WTF, now we have to not report on toxic groups. n/t
RKP5637
Aug 2017
#5
I certainly do and have thought about it many many times in the intervening years.
hlthe2b
Aug 2017
#6
I most certainly remember it! I also remember very well how the Republican office holders howled in
scarletwoman
Aug 2017
#9
pangaia
(24,324 posts)1. Of course I remember....
elleng
(131,292 posts)2. I do, posted about it, and received little recognition:
"[T]he Secretary of Homeland Security owes the American people an explanation for why she has abandoned using the term terrorist to describe those, such as al Qaeda, who are plotting overseas to kill innocent Americans, while her own Department is using the same term to describe American citizens who disagree with the direction Washington Democrats are taking our nation. Everyone agrees that the Department should be focused on protecting America, but using such broad-based generalizations about the American people is simply outrageous."
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016191052
annabanana
(52,791 posts)3. I remember being really ticked off that they were bullied by
the RW Wurlitzer to back down.
elleng
(131,292 posts)4. So was I.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)5. Yes, I remember it well and wondered WTF, now we have to not report on toxic groups. n/t
hlthe2b
(102,491 posts)6. I certainly do and have thought about it many many times in the intervening years.
It is as criminal as the NRA moves to prevent CDC from studying gun injuries/deaths or the RW move to prevent specific abortion research.
Truth is power and the RW can't handle the "empowered" truthful.
TheDebbieDee
(11,119 posts)7. I remember... The republicans shut that $hit down!
The report came out in 2010, I think, and they ordered the report to be removed from the public record and Napolitano was ordered not to act on any of the information contained in the report...
sinkingfeeling
(51,490 posts)8. I do. Wrote about it yesterday.
scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)9. I most certainly remember it! I also remember very well how the Republican office holders howled in
outrage.
They need to be reminded publicly and persistently.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)10. right wing white Christian dudes can't be "terrorists", silly!
niyad
(113,771 posts)11. I remember