After filing a Freedom of Information Act request, the Virginia-based Americans for Limited Government obtained documents from the Department of Homeland
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After filing a Freedom of Information Act request, the Virginia-based Americans for Limited Government obtained documentsfrom the Department of Homeland Security detailing how its controversial reporton the rise of “rightwing extremism” was put together. Among the sources(pdf): The New York Times, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and this Washington Independent storyon the Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot.
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ALG’s Bill Wilson has denounced the sourcing that DHS revealed after the FOIA request, saying that it was “not based on credible intelligence sources, reporting, and analysis.”
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Instead, what we found is that the Department was apparently surfing the net to see what news stories happened to turn up to support a pre-determined conclusion.