DHS Disputes Claims it Stopped Producing Intel Reports on Rightwing Extremists

By: Anthony Kimery
06/09/2011 ( 8:44am)
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In a recent emailed fundraising plea by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a generally respected group that monitors and often advises law enforcement on rightwing extremist activity, the group claimed that the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) controversial 2009 report on rightwing extremism that was disavowed by top DHS officials following the furor it created after it was leaked, was done so only “after conservative groups and politicians complained it maligned the political right,â€