He charged this decision, which runs counter to the very purpose of the Department of Homeland Security and its charter to demolish the wall of separation between law enforcement agencies, was made because “this Administration is more concerned about the civil rights and civil liberties of foreign Islamic groups and foreign nationals than securing the freedom and security of the American public.”
He pointed to documents uncovered by a Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act request tied to his whistleblower case as further support. “NTC was getting ‘pushback’ from CRCL, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, and DOS [the State Department] because of our focus on this group called Tablighi Jamaat,” he repeated, inviting listeners to study the nature of this Islamist group and understand why the Administration might feel pursuing it aggressively was unacceptably insensitive to Muslims.
Haney said his superiors actually erased some of his files pertinent to the case, because they insisted the initiative had “gone in a different direction” and he was no longer authorized to add his data.
He concluded by saying his purpose in coming forward was to fix a broken intelligence system. “This isn’t about hurting anybody. This is about fixing it. We could fix it. We can fix it. That’s my focus.”
It needs to be understood that the FBI had Farook and his terrorist activities on their radar for some time. Police and FBI scanners confirm that even before the final sots were fired, they knew it was Syed Farook who was involved.
How did they know? The better question is since they did know - WHY did they just watch this happen?
How many other terrorists are operating in plain sight even now with the FBI, the NSA other agencies monitoring their every move - yet nothing is done?
A little more complicated than he states. Great if we can fix it but probably won’t. But we need to identify those that destroyed his work, name them, shame them and possibly prosecute them civilly.