Civil liberties officials at the Homeland Security Department did not
agree with some of the language in a controversial report on right-wing
extremists, but the agency issued the report anyway.Homeland Security spokeswoman Amy Kudwa said the report was issued before officials resolved problems raised by the agency's civil rights division. Kudwa would not specify what language raised the concerns.
This certainly raises the question as to whether the report was issued prematurely as an attack on the scheduled Tea Parties. Of course, DHS may release reports regularly without resolving all issues as to language. That may be standard procedure. I would suspect, however, that such issues are generally resolved through discussions and either revision of reports or acceptance by all parties of the report without modification.
The failure to reach such agreement in this case suggests that it was rushed out for some political reason. If so, that does not bode well for the Obama administration.
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