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Analysts for the F.B.I. and the Department of Homeland Security routinely monitor violent extremist Web sites of all kinds, including those attracting white supremacists, according to former officials of both agencies.
But the department’s work on the topic has been criticized.
In 2009, conservatives in Congress strongly objected to a report titled “Rightwing Extremism,” which speculated that the recession and the election of a black president could increase the threat from white supremacists.
Janet Napolitano, the homeland security secretary, withdrew the report and apologized for what she called its flaws.
Daryl Johnson, the homeland security analyst who was the primary author of the report, said last year that after the flap, the number of analysts assigned to track non-Islamic militancy had been reduced sharply.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/07/u...ect-in-wisconsin-shooting.html?pagewanted=all
But the department’s work on the topic has been criticized.
In 2009, conservatives in Congress strongly objected to a report titled “Rightwing Extremism,” which speculated that the recession and the election of a black president could increase the threat from white supremacists.
Janet Napolitano, the homeland security secretary, withdrew the report and apologized for what she called its flaws.
Daryl Johnson, the homeland security analyst who was the primary author of the report, said last year that after the flap, the number of analysts assigned to track non-Islamic militancy had been reduced sharply.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/07/u...ect-in-wisconsin-shooting.html?pagewanted=all