and Secretary Napolitano for the DHS report warning that military veterans were being groomed and radicalized by white supremacists to launch just the kind of insurgency we're seeing now. He carried on about how this was racist, attacking the military, etc., practically spewing spittle with outrage and indignation. He viciously attacked President Obama and his administration, failing to note that this report was prepared during the Bush Administration. And he has never once since even admitted, much less apologized for his take, even as he now carries on about how awful it is that white supremacists trained by the military have launched an insurgency against the U.S. government.
It's bad enough that he and Mika criticize Trump as if they had nothing to do with his rise to power. But this is beyond the pale. And until he acknowledges his own role in dismissing and even helping to cover up the growing threat of white supremacist violence in this country, I have no use for him.
On the April 15 edition of MSNBC's Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough distorted an April 7 intelligence assessment by the Department of Homeland Security to allege that the Obama administration is “specifically warning that veterans returning home from war, are to be feared -- that they could be right-wing extremists that want to launch terror attacks on America.” In fact, the document, issued to law enforcement officials, warned of a possible resurgence among extremist groups that “will attempt to recruit and radicalize returning veterans in order to exploit their skills and knowledge derived from military training and combat.” The assessment further stated: “The willingness of a small percentage of military personnel to join extremist groups during the 1990s because they were disgruntled, disillusioned, or suffering from the psychological effects of war is being replicated today.” DHS cited a 2008 FBI report -- authored during the Bush administration -- as evidence that “some returning military veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have joined extremist groups.”
On Morning Joe, Scarborough also said, “I just ask this question to my Democratic friends out there -- and I'm serious about this -- what would you have said if George Bush, [former Bush adviser] Karl Rove, and the head of Homeland Security had issued a report warning about left-wing radicals wanting to blow up America? ...
t is frightening.” In fact, DHS did issue an assessment on January 26, concluding that “a number of emerging trends point to leftwing extremists maturing and expanding their cyber attack capabilities over the next decade with the aim of attacking targets in the United States.” Indeed, in response to a similar claim by conservative radio host Roger Hedgecock, CNN homeland security correspondent Jeanne Meserve reported during the April 14 edition of Lou Dobbs Tonight: “In fact, in January, there was a warning about left-wing extremists. It was issued by the Obama administration but both reports were begun under President Bush.” https://www.mediamatters.org/morning-joe/scarborough-ignores-bush-fbi-report-claim-obama-administration-stoking-fear
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