Who here remembers when Janet Napolitano tried to WARN us?

[annabanana]

https://thinkprogress.org/republicans-blasted-obama-administration-for-warning-about-right-wing-domestic-terrorism-de556496606c/

She was forced to take the report down in the face of near universal condemnation by Republicans and Conservatives of all stripes.

Perhaps if they had heeded her, those toxic groups might not have grown so big so fast...

[pangaia]

1. Of course I remember....

[elleng]

2. I do, posted about it, and received little recognition:

"[T]he Secretary of Homeland Security owes the American people an explanation for why she has abandoned using the term ‘terrorist’ to describe those, such as al Qaeda, who are plotting overseas to kill innocent Americans, while her own Department is using the same term to describe American citizens who disagree with the direction Washington Democrats are taking our nation. Everyone agrees that the Department should be focused on protecting America, but using such broad-based generalizations about the American people is simply outrageous."

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016191052

[annabanana]

3. I remember being really ticked off that they were bullied by

the RW Wurlitzer to back down.

[elleng]

4. So was I.

[RKP5637]

5. Yes, I remember it well and wondered WTF, now we have to not report on toxic groups. n/t

[hlthe2b]

6. I certainly do and have thought about it many many times in the intervening years.

It is as criminal as the NRA moves to prevent CDC from studying gun injuries/deaths or the RW move to prevent specific abortion research.

Truth is power and the RW can't handle the "empowered" truthful.

[TheDebbieDee]

7. I remember... The republicans shut that $hit down!

The report came out in 2010, I think, and they ordered the report to be removed from the public record and Napolitano was ordered not to act on any of the information contained in the report...

[sinkingfeeling]

8. I do. Wrote about it yesterday.

[scarletwoman]

9. I most certainly remember it! I also remember very well how the Republican office holders howled in

outrage.

They need to be reminded publicly and persistently.

[Warren DeMontague]

10. right wing white Christian dudes can't be "terrorists", silly!

[niyad]

11. I remember