Five war zones, economy tanking, default looming, ATF selling guns to Mexican and Honduran drug lords, home-grown terrorists flourishing, liberties eroded daily: Dems launch new witch hunts

Sheila Jackson Lee at Radical Islam Hearing: Let’s ‘Have a Hearing on Right-Wing Extremists’

Penny Starr
CNSNews
7/27/2011

At a hearing of the House Committee on Homeland Security today about the radicalization of young Somali American Muslims by the al-Shabaab terrorist group, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) said the committee should hold a hearing on “right-wing extremists” in the United States.
Jackson Lee used much of her allotted five minutes to question panelists with expertise on radicalization about the alleged hacking into telephones of 9-11 victims by the now-closed News of the World tabloid in England.

“I would add to that, that I would like to have a hearing on right-wing extremists, ideologues who advocate violence and advocate, in essence, the terrorizing of certain groups,” Jackson Lee said.

Before Jackson Lee was recognized by Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), the committee chairman, the panel of witnesses gave details about how al-Shabaab, an affiliate of al-Qaeda, is recruiting young Somali men who live in the United States to travel to that African nation to participate in terrorist training camps.

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Meanwhile~

Kucinich Calls For Justice Department To Investigate Ratings Agencies

“We are not a poor country. We’re the richest country in the world and to tempt to the markets to further manipulate us – these, these ratings agencies, there ought to be a Justice Department investigation of them. They were for sale for any one who wanted a good rating you drive up, you put your money down, you get a good rating. Now, they’re telling the United States of America that they’re going to downgrade our rating, are you kidding me? It’s time for us to downgrade the rating agencies.”

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Also, DOJ Begins Bank Witch Hunt

In what could be a repeat of the easy-lending cycle that led to the housing crisis, the Justice Department has asked several banks to relax their mortgage underwriting standards and approve loans for minorities with poor credit as part of a new crackdown on alleged discrimination, according to court documents reviewed by IBD.

Prosecutions have already generated more than $20 million in loan set-asides and other subsidies from banks that have settled out of court rather than battle the federal government and risk being branded racist. An additional 60 banks are under investigation, a DOJ spokeswoman says.

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