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CBS' Bob Orr picked up on a Department of Homeland Security report that warned of a rise in white supremacist violence fueled by "rising unemployment, illegal immigration, a fear of gun control and the election of America's first black President." Orr did mention a lone gunman suspected of killing three police officers in Pittsburgh as being a "gun enthusiast, an anti-government racist" but could come up with no organized conspiracy to back up the warning. In fact, Orr's alarming report concluded as merely alarmist. His government sources told him of "no evidence that any fringe group is planning any kind of attack." Orr contented himself with archival footage of Timothy McVeigh's bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995 and this generalization: "An interest in radical causes seems to peak during bad economic times"--which does not amount to much at all.
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