New Details From FOIA on Right-Wing Threat Assessment

NetRight Nation ^ | August 11, 2009 | Adam Bitely

[NetRight Nation]

Americans for Limited Government, which is the parent group of NetRight Nation, had it's Research Department do some digging on the right-wing threat assessment released from the Homeland Security Department. What they turned up was very interesting.

The sources for the potential threats were actually from websites as well as some blogs. Essentially, this Homeland Security threat assessment was not based on any intelligence but on what someone found in doing some Google searches. You can see below that there are at least 20 websites that were used to compile this information. The report was completely based on someones search preferences. Nathan Mehrens from our Research Department was on Fox News discussing what he found out.

[DManA]

Looks like someone at Homeland Security needs to have her web privileges revoked.

[Islander7]

Unfrigging believable! Who is compiling this info? A 14 y/o?

[KarlInOhio]

Why bother having a CIA or FBI when Wikipedia is available to provide us with all knowledge.

[Paine in the Neck]

Who is compiling this info?

Same people who will be making your health care decisions for you. Nothing to worry about.

[Gaffer]

They weren't even smart enough to go back and show that they actually have something, anything tangible in the makeup this report and condemnation decree. If you look closely, the sites indicated were accessed on August 4, 2009, not back earlier in the year when, if someone there actually took the time to even do a websearch, it would have been done.

These people we have in government are frauds and liars. On top of that they are either idiots or just don't care now, as long as they get some kind of response down on 'paper' that they can now take to the media and lie about constantly.

This isn't the America that I grew up in.

[Huebolt]

I'm not a terrorist or anything, but DEATH TO GOOGLE ! ! ! !

It will be renamed "BIG BROTHER" real soon now.

[Nachum]

The list, ping

[blam]

" On top of that they are either idiots or just don't care now, as long as they get some kind of response down on 'paper' that they can now take to the media and lie about constantly."

This sounds like AA types.

[Freedom2specul8]

I’m confused about this one. I went to the website, saw the list. How do we know these websites are targets, or the articles just examples of what the dhs are using as examples of right wingers?

[Verginius Rufus]

This sounds like AA types.

Alcoholics Anonymous?

[Nachum]

I believe the websites are what the DHS said were right wing threats.