Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has a clarification to make: her agency never said America’s war veterans are terrorists. Rather, extremist groups may try to prey upon them in their recruitment efforts.

Napolitano was referring to a report issued by the Department of Homeland Security last week warning local law-enforcement agencies that they should be on the lookout for "right-wing extremist radicalization." The report mentioned war veterans who may be having a hard time assimilating after war as possible targets of extremist groups.

Since then, some conservative corners and Republicans have blasted the Obama administration, saying the report essentially wages "war on veterans."

Michelle Malkin writes:

The piece of crap report issued on April 7 is a sweeping indictment of conservatives. And the intent is clear. As the two spokespeople I talked with on the phone today made clear: They both pinpointed the recent ‘economic downturn’ and the ‘general state of the economy’ for stoking ‘right-wing extremism.’

Napolitano said the administration never intended to call out vets, and insisted that politics played a role in the spin.

"What it was saying is ‘look, we have a threat of terrorism within our own shores and one of the groups being targeted to see if they’d be aligned with that are some our veterans,’" she told CNN on Sunday. She said she regretted "that in the politicization of everything that happens in Washington D.C., some took offense."

She continued: "The report is not saying that veterans are extremists, far from it. What it is saying is returning veterans are targets of right-wing extremist groups that are trying to recruit those to commit violent acts within the country."

Watch Napolitano on CNN below: