“Right-wing extremists have capitalized on the election of the first African-American president, and are focusing their efforts to recruit new members, ... singling out “disgruntled military veterans” ... in order to exploit their skills and knowledge derived from military training and combat.”
... Faced with mounting criticism, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano disavowed the document and apologized to veterans. The agency’s unit investigating right-wing extremism was largely dismantled and the report’s lead investigator was pushed out. “They stopped doing intel on that, and that was that,” Heidi Beirich, who leads the Southern Poverty Law Center’s tracking of extremist groups
