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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano defended an agency intelligence assessment warning that veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan could be susceptible to recruitment by right-wing extremists.
Napolitano said on CNN’s “State of the Union” that she regretted that some people had taken offense, but added that “a number of groups far too numerous to mention” were targeting returning veterans to carry out domestic attacks.
The report mentioned Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Timothy McVeigh, a decorated Army veteran convicted of detonating an explosives-laden truck in front of the federal building, killing 168. McVeigh was executed in 2001.
Conservatives called the report offensive.
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