That is the headline found on Drudge, this morning. In fact, yesterday, the headline simply read "Holder warns of threat within." Matt Drudge added 'radical citizens,' the implied message being this -- it is no longer "radical Islam" we are worried about, but a "radicalized citizenry." Drudge is one of our news portals. He does not need to enhance the headlines he chooses to feature in his daily report.
The problem with this implication is found in a reading of the article to which Drudge linked. The news story is actually an ABC story found here. We note that the ABC headline is not the same as Drudge. More than that, we have this quote from the ABC story.
In the last 24 months, Holder said, 126 people have been indicted on terrorist-related charges, Fifty of those people are American citizens.
"I think that what is most alarming to me is the totality of what we see, the attorney general said. "Whether it is an attempt to bomb the New York City subway system, an attempt to bring down an airplane over Detroit, an attempt to set off a bomb in Times Square ... I think that gives us a sense of the breadth of the challenges that we face, and the kinds of things that our enemy is trying to do."
Holder says many of these converts to al Qaeda have something in common: a link to radical cleric Anwar Al Awlaki, an American citizen himself.
Understand that we are no friend of ABC news or Eric Holder. The former is into the defeat of America as we have known it and the later is a Dufus. But !! facts are facts and Holder, at least in this article, appears to "get it" when it comes to the internal national threat that is before us, call it what you will. Can Holder's DOJ do more? Absolutely. Is he confused as to the religious nature of the enemy? Yes. Are mixed messages being sent by Obama and Holder as to Islam's complicity in their war of terror against the United States? Definitely.
But, at least, he understands the seriousness of the physical threat.
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