DHS Memo Linking Loughner to Racist Group, American Renaissance, Leaked. American Renaissance Denies.

DHS Memo Suggests Shooter May Be Linked To Racist Organization
According to a memo obtained by Fox News with information compiled by the Department of Homeland Security and released to state Law Enforcement officials, Jared Loughner, the alleged shooter of Congressman Gabrielle Giffords, may have been influenced by a pro-white Racist organization that publishes an anti-immigration newsletter. American Renaissance is an organization that Loughner mentioned in some of his Internet postings and federal Law Enforcement officials are investigating Loughner's pos...

Loughner is Anti-ZOG, Truther; Likely Schizophrenic
As Yael of the BokerTov blog notes, “Yep, two and two IS four.  I could feel it in my Zionist kishkehs:” (JTA) — A U.S. Department of Homeland Security memo reportedly notes that Gabriel Giffords is Jewish in describing the motives of the Arizona congresswoman’s alleged assailant. The memo, obtained by Fox News Channel, says that Jared Lee Loughner mentioned American Renaissance, an Extremist anti-immigrant group, in some of his own postings. “The group’s

DHS memo suggests suspect influenced by racist group
The Department of Homeland Security has issued a memo to Law Enforcement authorities suggesting that the suspect in the Arizona shootings Jared Lee Loughner was influenced by a Racist group, Fox News reports. No direct connection, but strong suspicion is being directed at American Renaissance, an organization that Loughner mentioned in some of his Internet postings and federal Law Enforcement officials are investigating Loughner's possible links to the organization. The organization is a month...

DHS Memo Suggests Shooter May Be Linked To Racist Organization
Source: FOX DHS Memo Suggests Shooter May Be Linked To Racist Organization by Jennifer Griffin | January 09, 2011 According to a memo obtained by Fox News with information compiled by the Department of Homeland Security and released to state Law Enforcement officials, Jared Loughner, the alleged shooter of Congressman Gabrielle Giffords, may have been influenced by a pro-white racist organization that publishes an anti-immigration newsletter. No direct connection, but strong suspicion is being d...

Why Was Giffords Targeted?
Jared Lee Loughner, the alleged would-be assassin of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Leaving aside whether broader currents in American political discourse influenced Jared Lee Loughner’s attempt on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’s life, what exactly were the direct, proximate motivations behind Loughton’s decision to shoot Giffords in the head and then open fire on the crowd at her “Congress on Your Corner” event Saturday in Tucson, Arizona, killing six and wounding nearly two d...

ADL urges "thorough examination" of Loughner's motives
In the wake of reports that investigators are probing Jared Lee Loughner's possible ties to a white supremacist organization, the Anti-Defamation League calls in a statement Monday for a thorough examination of whether the suspect was "influenced by Extremist literature, Propaganda or Hate Speech" in his targeting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, the first female Jewish member of Congress elected from Arizona. "ADL remains in contact with Law Enforcement as investigators endeavor to ...

Loughners Demons, and Who Created Them
Political columnist Michelle Goldberg argued over the weekend in Tablet Magazine that even though Jared Lee Loughner, the alleged shooter of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and murderer of six others, was “clearly in the grip of delusion rather than any coherent ideology,” it is still reasonable to explore whether the paranoid and nativist political climate cultivated by far-right groups and, to an extent, mainstreamed by the Tea Party helped lent=d Loughner the impetus to try to kill not ju...

DHS uses Giffords shooting to push loose borders political agenda (Jared Lee Loughner, American Renaissance)
The Department of Homeland Security and various media sources are using the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords by Jared Lee Loughner as an opportunity to try to smear opponents of illegal Immigration, focusing on the higher-level white racial separatist group American Renaissance (DHS memo at [1], report at [2]). Not only do they get that group's ideas wrong, but they mislead about what was in Loughner's videos and what appears to have been on his MySpace page. From the memo at [1]: no direct conn...

DHS links Arizona shooter Loughner with white supremacist American Renaissance
 The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a memo linking Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords shooter Jared Lee Loughner with the anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant, white supremacist Hate Group American Renaissance. According to a Law Enforcement memo based on information provided by DHS and obtained by Fox News, Jared Loughner, the alleged shooter of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, may have been influenced by a pro-white Racist organization that pu...

"I Have Confidence in Our Legal System:" NJ Son of Arizona Shooting Victim
The son of one of the Victims caught up in the Assassination of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords said, "Because of the state of mind of the suspect, I don't really hold any bad feelings" toward the man arrested at the Murder scene, Jared Lee Loughner. Former New Jersey resident Phyllis Schneck, 79, also died in the attack and her son Ernest, who lives in Rutherford, N.J., told NBC New York, "I have confidence in our legal system that they're gonna do the right thing to mak...

DHS Memo Suggests Jared Loughners Motiviation Might Have Been Anti-Semitism
The mystery surrounding the motivation of Jared Loughner might be starting to clear up. According to numerous reports, the alleged assailant in the weekend shooting in Arizona has not cooperated with authorities, but a reported memo from the Department of Homeland Security procured by Fox News’ Jennifer Griffin provides some clues.On her Greta Wire blog, Fox News host Greta Van Susteren published the DHS memo which suggests that Loughner might be be linked to an “anti-Semitic” ...

Arizona Shooting Suspect Set For Court Appearance
The suspect in a weekend shooting rampage in Tucson, Ariz., that left six dead and Rep. Gabrielle Giffords seriously wounded will make his first court appearance Monday afternoon, where he faces charges of attempted Assassination. Jared Loughner, who allegedly fired a Glock pistol point-blank at the Democratic congresswoman's head before spraying a crowded Supermarket Parking Lot with bullets, was expected to appear in a Phoenix court at 2 p.m. MST (4 p.m. EST). U.S. District Judge John Roll, an...

Shooter Jared Loughner has ties with white racist group American Renaissance
"An internal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) memo quoted by Fox News Channel revealed the gunman - named by the media as Jared Loughner, 22 - is "possibly linked" to American Renaissance." The Great White Wave: The 2010 Elections saw a dramatic uprising against the policies of President Obama and the Democratic Congress led by the “Tea Party” movement. Another phenomenon has yet to be fully expounded—the decisive factor of the white vote. Assistant editor Stephen Webster ...

Jared Lee Loughner Possibly Linked To Racist, Anti-Government Group American Renaissance
I don’t think there’s any doubt that Loughner is mentally unhinged, but I maintain that politics of some sort is behind this. And an internal DHS memo obtained by Fox News sheds light on his motivations… According to a Law Enforcement memo based on information provided by DHS and obtained by Fox News, Jared Loughner, the alleged shooter of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, may have been influenced by a pro-white Racist organization that publishes an anti-immigration newslette...

Intern might have saved Giffords' life
TUCSON, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- Daniel Hernandez, an intern for U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, may have saved her life after she was shot through the head, officials said. Arizona State Rep. Matt Heinz, D-Tucson, said the fact that Hernandez was nearby and able to react quickly after she was shot Saturday probably saved Giffords' life, the Arizona Republic reported. GALLERY: The aftermath of the Rep. Giffords shooting Giffords was among those injured in a shooting rampage that left six people dead at a...

After Assassination Attempt, Giffords Still In Critical Condition
People gather outside of Rep. Giffords' offices (AP) NEXT » President Obama will lead the nation in a moment of silence on the South Lawn of the White House at 11 a.m. this morning. "It will be a time for us to come together as a nation in prayer or reflection, keeping the Victims and their families closely at heart," Obama said in a statement. After the silence, he'll answer questions about the shooting of Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 19 others in the Parking Lot of an Arizona sh...

Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords Among a Dozen Shot in Tucson Parking Lot
Blue Dog Democrat Gabrielle Giffords was among at least a dozen people shot outside a Tucson shopping center during the Congresswoman's annual "Congress in your Corner" event. Giffords, who recently took part in the reading of the U.S. Constitution on the floor of the House, was responding to doctors' commands Saturday evening after the bullet pierced her brain as it entered then exited her skull. The gunman also allegedly killed an unidentified nine-year-old girl and Federal District Court Judg...

Updates on the attempted assassination of Gabrielle Giffords
Some recent developments in the Assassination attempt of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords on Saturday that left six dead and fourteen wounded. First, Giffords condition: Gabrielle Giffords was able to respond to simple commands -- like squeezing her hand or showing two fingers -- after two hours of surgery Saturday night, but her injuries are very serious and she remains in critical condition, her doctors said Sunday. [...] The chief of Neurosurgery, Michael Lemole, said that he is "cautiously optimisti...

On the memo
Fox News has published the memo reportedly compiled by the Department of Homeland Security and distributed to Arizona Law Enforcement. The memo suggests that the suspect Jared Lee Loughner, 22, may have had an anti-Semitic motivation in targeting Rep. Gabriella Giffords (D-Ariz.) and that he may have been influenced by the Racist group American Renaissance. Earlier Sunday, officials had downplayed that there was such an official DHS memo per se. A read of the document suggests that it may be c...

Further Questions of Anti-Semitic Motives In Gifford Shooting
Yesterday I questioned whether Anti-Semitism was a possible motive in the shooting of Gabrielle Gifford. From what we know so far, the shooter had far Right Wing ties and there is now a possible tie to an anti-Semitic group: An internal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) memo quoted by Fox News Channel revealed the gunman - named by the media as Jared Loughner, 22 - is “possibly linked” to American Renaissance. The group subscribes to an ideology that is “anti-...

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Gabrielle Giffords was shot because she is Jewish? From Carl: Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-Az) wasn't shot because she was pro or anti-immigration. She wasn't shot because she voted against Nancy Pelosi for Speaker of the House. She wasn't shot because Sarah Palin targeted her seat in last fall's Elections. And she wasn't shot because she voted for ObamaCare. Gabrielle Giffords was shot because of a much more baseless hatred. Gabrielle Giffords was shot because she is a Jew!

Gabrielle Giffords was shot because she is Jewish
Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-Az) wasn't shot because she was pro or anti-immigration. She wasn't shot because she voted against Nancy Pelosi for Speaker of the House. She wasn't shot because Sarah Palin targeted her seat in last fall's Elections. And she wasn't shot because she voted for ObamaCare. Gabrielle Giffords was shot because of a much more baseless hatred. Gabrielle Giffords was shot because she is a Jew. This is an internal memo obtained by Fox News put out by DHS compiling fa...

Obama leads moment of silence for shooting victims
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has presided over a national moment of silence for severely injured Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and the people who were killed during an Assassination attempt against her. On the White House South Lawn, Obama was joined by First Lady Michelle Obama and White House staff members on a cold morning. The moment was marked at the U.S. Capitol and elsewhere around a nation still coming to grips with the tragedy. Giffords is in intensive care at a Tusc...

After the Tucson Shootings, the Old Gun Debate Gets New Urgency
Among the many details emerging about alleged Tucson shooter Jared Loughner are his economic views, and it seems he agreed with the End-the-Fed crowd. According to the The New York Times, he told a college classmate that he was against The Dollar and wanted to replace it. In that, Loughner and Ron Paul (R-Texas) are on the same page, not that Paul has any connection to what Loughner did. But as commentators have been pointing out repeatedly since the tragic shootings, the tone of today's poli...

Media: Loughner May Be Possibly Linked to Anti-Semitic Group
The media is now suggesting that Jared Loughner may have links to a radical anti-Semitic group American Renaissance. Take this with a grain of salt. THE suspect being held over Saturday’s shooting of US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords may have links to anti-Semitic race Hate Group American Renaissance. An internal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) memo quoted by Fox News Channel revealed the gunman - named by the media as Jared Loughner, 22 - is “possibly linked̶...