Haney found dead...Obama whistleblower who was about to release "National Security Meltdown" info, ahemm, takes own life "

rolltide · Feb 23, 2020

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...r-found-dead-with-gunshot-wound-in-california

As a whistleblower, Haney testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in June 2016 that DHS ordered him to delete hundreds of files of people with ties to Islamist terrorist groups, arguing several terrorist attacks against people in the United States could have been prevented if certain files had not been scrubbed.

“It is very plausible that one or more of the subsequent terror attacks on the homeland could have been prevented if more subject matter experts in the Department of Homeland Security had been allowed to do our jobs back in late 2009,” Haney wrote in an opinion piece for the Hill in February 2016. “It is demoralizing — and infuriating — that today, those elusive dots are even harder to find, and harder to connect, than they were during the winter of 2009.”

"However, my story is still live, i.e., there's still more to come. It'll be called 'National Security Meltdown.'"

Haney added, "I have a severely hyper-organized archive of everything that's happened since See Something, Say Nothing (SSSN) was published in May of 2016. The National Security Meltdown sequel will pick up right where SSSN left off. My intention is to have it ready by early-to mid-Spring of 2020 (just before the political sound wave hits), then ride that wave all the way to the Nov. elections."

rolltide · Feb 23, 2020

Informative interview at https://www.newenglishreview.org/Je...erview_with_DHS_Whistleblower,_Phillip_Haney/

Excerpt:
I had already targeted the individuals and the organizations in the Muslim brotherhood network beginning in 2006 and 2007. Then once the Administration began to bring them into positions of authority to help create and enforce, if you will, counter terrorism policy in both the domestic and the foreign policy arenas, then came the federal Dallas Holy Land Foundation Trial in 2008. That was when the Justice Department showed in federal court irrefutable ties of these same groups to Hamas. Less than one year after that, the Administration ordered me to remove all the linking information of records that I had put into the TECS system, about 850 records. The vast majority of them were related to individuals and organizations within the Muslim Brotherhood network in the United States. Now the administration is bringing them into positions of authority. It has been implausible that they could ever say that after November 2008 and the Holy Land Trial convictions that they didn’t know, as the Department of Justice proved that they were linked to Hamas. Nonetheless they ordered me to scrub all the linking information out of these records that I had put in the TECS. That is when the really traumatic, both personally and career wise, sequence of events began to take place. That was in the fall of 2009. It took me four months just to modify all of those records. During that time when I was literally in my office, in my cubicle, doing the work, the Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab underwear bombing took place. Congress held hearings on the case. The two concerns that they expressed during the hearings were radicalization of U.S. citizens and/or lawful permanent residents, and failure to connect the dots. Meanwhile the President went on TV and pointed his finger at the intelligence community and said plainly that it was our fault because we didn’t connect the dots. While I was literally sitting there at my office space, removing the dots out of the system. That was one of the traumatizing or surreal moments that I referred to earlier, that was like, Alice in Wonderland, where somebody has a real gun. Because now we’re talking about the lives of people. Because that was a very difficult point to go through during this long ordeal. It still lasted another seven years after that.

rolltide · Feb 23, 2020

In an article that he penned, Haney wrote of Obama:

Most Americans were unaware of the enormous damage to morale at the Department of Homeland Security, where I worked, his condemnation caused. His words infuriated many of us because we knew his administration had been engaged in a bureaucratic effort to destroy the raw material—the actual intelligence we had collected for years, and erase those dots. The dots constitute the intelligence needed to keep Americans safe, and the Obama administration was ordering they be wiped away.

After leaving my 15 year career at DHS, I can no longer be silent about the dangerous state of America’s counter-terror strategy, our leaders’ willingness to compromise the security of citizens for the ideological rigidity of political correctness—and, consequently, our vulnerability to devastating, mass-casualty attack.

Just before that Christmas Day attack, in early November 2009, I was ordered by my superiors at the Department of Homeland Security to delete or modify several hundred records of individuals tied to designated Islamist terror groups like Hamas from the important federal database, the Treasury Enforcement Communications System (TECS). These types of records are the basis for any ability to “connect dots.”

Every day, DHS Customs and Border Protection officers watch entering and exiting many individuals associated with known terrorist affiliations, then look for patterns. Enforcing a political scrubbing of records of Muslims greatly affected our ability to do that. Even worse, going forward, my colleagues and I were prohibited from entering pertinent information into the database.

A few weeks later, in my office at the Port of Atlanta, the television hummed with the inevitable Congressional hearings that follow any terrorist attack. While members of Congress grilled Obama administration officials, demanding why their subordinates were still failing to understand the intelligence they had gathered, I was being forced to delete and scrub the records. And I was well aware that, as a result, it was going to be vastly more difficult to “connect the dots” in the future—especially before an attack occurs.

As the number of successful and attempted Islamic terrorist attacks on America increased, the type of information that the Obama administration ordered removed from travel and national security databases was the kind of information that, if properly assessed, could have prevented subsequent domestic Islamist attacks like the ones committed by Faisal Shahzad (May 2010), Detroit “honor killing” perpetrator Rahim A. Alfetlawi (2011); Amine El Khalifi, who plotted to blow up the U.S. Capitol (2012); Dzhokhar or Tamerlan Tsarnaev who conducted the Boston Marathon bombing (2013); Oklahoma beheading suspect Alton Nolen (2014); or Muhammed Yusuf Abdulazeez, who opened fire on two military installations in Chattanooga, Tennessee (2015).