Holder announces task force on 'homegrown' terrorists

LA Times ^ | 6/2/2014 | Timothy M. Phelps

[mojito]

Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder, Jr. on Monday announced the creation of a task force within the Justice Department to combat an “escalating danger” from “homegrown” terrorists within the United States..

The Justice Department, in a news release accompanying Holder’s weekly video address, cited a Congressional Research Service report last year that said domestic terrorists were responsible for more than two dozen incidents in the U.S. since 9/11.

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The task force will chiefly comprise leaders from the FBI, the Justice Department’s National Security Division and U.S. Attorneys. Called the Domestic Terrorism Executive Committee, it is a recreation of a task force formed by former Atty. Gen. Janet Reno after the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. The task force fell into disuse after 9/11.

Though the original task force, which was little known, focused mainly on right-wing zealots, Holder’s version is aimed at U.S. citizens or visitors radicalized via the Internet.

[OSHA]

One man's Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder's terrorist is another man's a freedom fighter.

[Major Matt Mason]

These guys are spoiling for a fight, and they are trying to create the atmosphere that will allow them to go after what will likely be mostly law-abiding citizens that don't hold their Marxist views. They knew this prisoner swap would not go over well, given that they gave up some of the worst of the worst at Guantonomo in exchange for a deserter. Nothing they do is accidental or a miscue.

[pallis]

Obama, Holder, and the all the Nazi wannabes of the American left need to be shut down by everyone who doesn’t want to repeat the atrocities people like them have committed in the past. The fifty states and free people need to take back their power from these goons, and stop cooperating with them.

[Truth29]

What is needed, and doesn’t seem to be forming, is a massive movement of millions of patriots to take to the streets and Washington, DC to demand that the Regime stand down. Isolated incidents of resistance are just what they want. They can pick off activists and make brutal examples of what happens to resisters to make the broader population submit.

[reefdiver]

This could get out of hand real quick.
Govt agencies have purchased millions of rounds of amo, and armed them selves with tanks and special forces type gear. Picking up citizens arms can’t be far off. I fear for the country, I don’t trust these people

[Mastador1]

Well he said homegrown terrorists, but I just can't believe that he would investigate zero and himself.

[SoConPubbie]

These guys are spoiling for a fight, and they are trying to create the atmosphere that will allow them to go after what will likely be mostly law-abiding citizens that don't hold their Marxist views. They knew this prisoner swap would not go over well, given that they gave up some of the worst of the worst at Guantonomo in exchange for a deserter. Nothing they do is accidental or a miscue.

You're right.

Nothing Obama and his crew does is because of incompetence, ignorance, or is without intention. Everything is done to push America into some form of Marxist, collectivist, statist governance model and hopefully (in their minds) cause Americans to take the first step in rebellion so they think they would have cover to clamp down hard on individual liberties.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

So, this phony-baloney task force is going to include investigations of left-wing zealots?

Sure it will. I’ll hold my breath.

[clintonh8r]

General James Mattoon Scott: Where are you now that we need you? (No, seriously)

[INVAR]

A fearless man cannot be controlled.

No. He can only be made to disappear or killed by tyrants and those beholden to tyrants as history teaches.

We know how far tyrants are willing to go to crush any dissent or to impose it's will.

What remains unknown at this time is how far fearless men are willing to go, and how much they are willing to risk in order to oppose them.

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

Does sending AK-47’s to Mexican narco terrorists count, Eric?

[P-Marlowe]

The Justice Department, in a news release accompanying Holder’s weekly video address, cited a Congressional Research Service report last year that said domestic terrorists were responsible for more than two dozen incidents in the U.S. since 9/11.

Obviously Major Hassan's "workplace violence" is not included in this number.

[freeangel]

‘Just thinkin’ we might as well turn all of ourselves in right now for being anti-big government thinkers.

[Iron Munro]

[morphing libertarian]

don’t they have enough swat teams already. Look for the Library of Congress to get one.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

What remains unknown at this time is how far fearless men are willing to go, and how much they are willing to risk in order to oppose them.

Not to me.

[morphing libertarian]

Everything makes sense (to the hero of benghazi) if you recall he said there was no war on terrorism only Al Queda (which seems to be going away, the war that is).

So now, the Taliban and others are not terrorists, just US citizens who want them out of office.

[JimSEA]

They kind of slipped that in under the radar, didn’t they? Not that it’s a big change in policy. Perhaps they are planning something to draw the heat off the litany of scandals? Treasonous TEA Partiers? Are the Koch brothers arming a militia?

[thirst4truth]

Did he just say that the Ft. Hood shooting was a terror event? Oh, I thought it was workplace violence?

[Busko]

Maybe go after the Bloods and Crypts, New Black Panthers. Remember this clown the FALN free under the Rapist Clinton. This will be come a white witch hunt.