Posted on 02/10/2011 6:56:52 AM PST by Libloather
At Homeland Security Hearing, Congressman Questions DHS Secretary on 'Anti-Tax Groups'
By MICHAEL WARREN
2:48 PM, Feb 9, 2011
Despite concern from the left about the potential for Rep. Peter King's Homeland Security Committee hearings would unfairly "[single] out an entire community, such as Muslim Americans," this morning's hearing with Department of Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano and Michael Leiter, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, focused primarily on the efficacy of the government's counterterrorism efforts with regard to homegrown Islamic terrorism. But for a brief five minutes, Democrat Bennie Thompson, the ranking member on the committee, brought the focus to what he considers a great threat to homeland security: anti-tax groups.
"In your testimony, you went to great lengths to describe the threat to the homeland relative to homegrown terrorists," Thompson said to Napolitano. "Law enforcement agencies have also talked about neo-Nazis, environmental extremists, and anti-tax groups as more prevalent than al Qaeda-inspired terrorist organization. Have you all looked at this to see if that, in fact, was true?"
"We don’t have a scorecard," Napolitano responded. "The plain fact of the matter is that from a law enforcement terrorist prevention perspective, we have to prepare law enforcement entities for all types of acts.
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This is why the PATRIOT ACT needs to die on the vine!!!
Why of course they were...the libs are currently trying to build a mythology in which TEA Party protesters are just as evil and violent as Islamic terrorists.
Why of course they were...the libs are currently trying to build a mythology in which TEA Party protesters are just as evil and violent as Islamic terrorists.
Amen.
So does DHS. The FBI should take over. Anti-Tax? Who the Hell is Pro-Tax?
The TEA party is a much bigger threat to the fedgov than islam.
Why, anyone in Washington with a "D" behind their name, of course.
“Who the Hell is Pro-Tax?”
Democrats.
The **** they don't. This administration is all about scorecards.
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