Ms. Napolitano said the use of the term "violent extremism" rather than "jihadi" or "Islamist" to describe the terror threat was driven by concern that officials "not overlook other types of extremism that can be homegrown and that we, indeed, have experiences with."
"Some of those [attacks] are inspired by Islamist groups. Others can be inspired by, like, anti-government groups -- flying a plane into the [Internal Revenue Service] building, for example," she said, referring to an incident in February 2010 when software engineer Joseph Stack crashed a small plane into a federal building, killing himself and an IRS employee.
So a crazy with a pilot's license becomes an anti-government group on a par with Islamic Crusaders?
We have to pat down Grammas because, "when we add random screening to whatever we are doing, it has to be truly random. Otherwise, you lose the value of unpredictability. And secondly when we set firm rules about we won't screen this kind of person or that kind of person, our adversaries, they know those rules and they attempt to train and get around them.
So one Gramma for each Achmed is random? What about one gramma for every eight to ten Achmeds? Isn't that random, too?
"We cannot categorize by ethnicity or religion or any of those sorts of things," she said. "We have to make decisions based on intelligence about particular individuals. That's what is required under the United States Constitution."
I't in there, somewhere, I'm sure. Somebody told me so.