We were warned about rightwing terrorism a decade ago and did nothing to stop it!
In July 2008 a report, titled “White Supremacist Recruitment of Military Personnel since 9/11,” was issue by the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division. Next, under the Bush Administration, the Department of Homeland Security worked on an intelligence assessment of rising rightwing terrorism. "Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment", that was finally completed and released April 7, 2009, during the Obama Administration.
Republicans and conservative groups went postal, and the blogosphere was abuzz with a flurry of angry Republicans in high dudgeon. The brouhaha forced the new Department of Homeland Security secretary, Janet Napolitano, to make a formal an apology... for publishing the truth?
For over a decade we've ignored the growing threat of rightwing terrorism to avoid the loudmouthed reactionary blowback from Republicans and their complicit media enablers. No more! Make them own the monsters they created!
The report argued that the future of terrorism threats against the United States would be in homegrown, domestic terrorism, spawned from the right fringes of the political spectrum... Republicans reacted angrily, demanding that Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano rescind the report. Eventually, it was withdrawn, and by 2010, the DHS no longer had any intelligence analysts working in the field of domestic terrorism...
But the report was ultimately prophetic. To read it today is to see officials sounding an alarm about a world where extremists illegally occupy federal land, or mail pipe bombs to Democratic party leaders, or commit mass shootings that target minority groups. It even seems to warn of the rise of a figure like Donald Trump, who might build speeches around a version of rhetorical extremism that’s been (just barely) gussied up for primetime, but who’s still perpetually courting that extremist base.
https://www.vox.com/2018/10/28/18032350/domestic-terrorism-cable-news-megyn-kelly-fired
“White Supremacist Recruitment of Military Personnel since 9/11,”
39 pages
https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/944_OPSR_TEVUS_Comparing-Violent-Nonviolent-Far-Right-Hate-Groups_Dec2011-508.pdf
"Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment"
The report is only 10 pages:
https://fas.org/irp/eprint/rightwing.pdf
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