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DHS Secretary: ‘Not Necessarily a Government Objective’ to Counter the Terrorists’ Narrative
Cybercast News Service ^ | May 11, 2015 | 6:09 AM EDT | Susan Jones

Posted on 05/11/2015 9:17:53 AM PDT by Olog-hai

The “effective use of social media” by Islamic extremists poses new and serious threats to the U.S. homeland, but “it’s important to remember that a lot of the counter-narrative needs to come from within the community,” Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson told ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday.

“And so, when I meet with community leaders, I am asking them, what are we doing to counter this narrative? It is slick. It is effective,” Johnson said, referring to the terrorists' Internet recruitment.

“But we need to get the message out, and that’s not necessarily a government objective, a government mission. It has to come from within the community. It has to come from Islamic leaders, who, frankly can talk the language better than the federal government can.” …

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: dhimmitude; dhs; isisnarrative; isispropaganda; isisrecruitment; isisthreat; islamicleaders; jehjohnson; rop
Yeah, sure: get the foxes to preach against hunting chickens. Imagine what it would have been like during WWII if the government said it was “not necessarily a government objective” to counter Nazi propaganda? Wow.
1 posted on 05/11/2015 9:17:53 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

JEH JEH JOHNSON NEEDS TO BE REMOVED FROM HIS POSTION IMMEDIATELY!


2 posted on 05/11/2015 9:20:44 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Olog-hai

Fighting the Enemy and Protecting the border
is THE ONLY JOB OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
(by the Constitution).

Instead, the DH”S” imports incurable diseases and still
will not say where they Quartered them,
imports Islamic terrorists despite beheadings across the USA,
and attacks Americans including their once-sovereign states.


3 posted on 05/11/2015 9:21:57 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: Olog-hai

DHS same annual budget as the USMC with twice the manpower.

I do not think we are getting our money’s worth.


4 posted on 05/11/2015 9:25:10 AM PDT by hadaclueonce (It is not heaven, it is Iowa. Everyone gets a "Corn Check")
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To: Diogenesis

Precisely. They’ve trampled Article 4 Section 4 continuously, especially the second clause.


5 posted on 05/11/2015 9:26:02 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
They’ve trampled Article 4 Section 4 continuously, especially the second clause.

Which is why I would be all for forcing the issue -- all it would take is a shingle southern border-state governor to declare a state of invasion and deploy the national guard to secure the border, perhaps even calling up the unorganized militia, and then demanding the federal government assist.

6 posted on 05/11/2015 9:32:13 AM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: Olog-hai

The best leaders strive to employ the smartest, most capable people as subordinates.

Barack Obama employs people just as stupid, incompetent, and worthless as he is.


7 posted on 05/11/2015 9:33:01 AM PDT by Iron Munro (We may be paranoid but that doesn't mean they aren't really after us)
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To: Olog-hai

Our politicians invite terrorists into this country and then ask them not to kill us and blow up stuff.(see my tag line)


8 posted on 05/11/2015 9:44:02 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common anymore.)
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To: null and void; Nachum; Kartographer; LucyT; butterdezillion; INVAR; Dick Bachert; GOPJ; BCW; ...
H/T to our FRiend Olog-hai for the post.

If we don't have a mission of countering terrorists, then what is DHS's "real mission"?

Or does it have nothing to do with terrorists as defined when DHS was created?

For thus has the Lord said unto me:
“Go, set a watchman, Let him declare what he sees.”
Isaiah 21:6

The Watchman Ping List - FReepmail Old Sarge for details!

9 posted on 05/11/2015 9:44:27 AM PDT by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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To: Old Sarge

Do you know anything about the two o’clock thing?


10 posted on 05/11/2015 9:49:11 AM PDT by GOPJ (When terrorists in body armor came to kill cartoonists the media stood with the terrorists.)
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To: Diogenesis
"Fighting the Enemy"

It all depends on what the White House and DHS define as the enemy. I don't think its Muslim extremists.

11 posted on 05/11/2015 9:51:03 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe (For every Allende, there is a Pinochet)
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To: GOPJ
I have very little data on it beyond this report...
12 posted on 05/11/2015 10:01:01 AM PDT by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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To: Olog-hai

His job is really to pass out the candies at the WH when terrorists hit their marks.


13 posted on 05/11/2015 10:05:59 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: Olog-hai

It is almost impossible to fix stupid. And our government is filled with stupid people. Thus, the mess we are in.


14 posted on 05/11/2015 10:17:10 AM PDT by mulligan (I)
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To: Olog-hai

Jeh Johnson A Total Failure At The JOB


15 posted on 05/11/2015 11:07:43 AM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: Olog-hai

Leftists like Jeh think the governments job is to control we the People, not offer actual protection.


16 posted on 05/11/2015 11:14:45 AM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: Olog-hai

I swear to God.. where do these IDIOTS come from?


17 posted on 05/11/2015 2:12:31 PM PDT by navyguy (The National Reset Button is pushed with the trigger finger.)
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To: navyguy

Read Isaiah 3:4 for starters.


18 posted on 05/11/2015 2:48:03 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

“I will make mere youths their officials;
children will rule over them.”

Dead on correct.


19 posted on 05/11/2015 3:12:27 PM PDT by navyguy (The National Reset Button is pushed with the trigger finger.)
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