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DHS ordered me to scrub records of Muslims with terror ties
The Hill ^ | February 05, 2016, 12:00 pm | by Philip Haney

Posted on 02/05/2016 1:41:13 PM PST by Syncro

February 05, 2016, 12:00 pm

DHS ordered me to scrub records of Muslims with terror ties

By Philip Haney

Amid the chaos of the 2009 holiday travel season, jihadists planned to slaughter 290 innocent travelers on a Christmas Day flight from the Netherlands to Detroit, Michigan. Twenty-three-year old Nigerian Muslim Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab intended to detonate Northwest Airlines Flight 253, but the explosives in his underwear malfunctioned and brave passengers subdued him until he could be arrested. The graphic and traumatic defeat they planned for the United States failed, that time.

Following the attempted attack, President Obama threw the intelligence community under the bus for its failure to "connect the dots." He said, "this was not a failure to collect intelligence, it was a failure to integrate and understand the intelligence that we already had."

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).  

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. 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.

Haney worked at the Department of Homeland Security for 15 years.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 15yearstoolong; dhs; islam; muslim; terror
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This guy could be in big trouble.
1 posted on 02/05/2016 1:41:13 PM PST by Syncro
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ht to Frank Gaffney

#CoverUp
Should be frontpage news!
DHS ordered me to scrub records of Muslims w/ terror ties https://t.co/NacXZH0MSb pic.twitter.com/U24ZZBblko— Frank Gaffney (@frankgaffney) February 5, 2016


2 posted on 02/05/2016 1:43:52 PM PST by Syncro (Benghazi-LIES/Coverup Treason ARREST the traitors! Hillary, Obama, Rice, Holder, Learner et al)
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To: Syncro

They WANT attack on the USA as it provides the basis for repealing freedoms and militarizing the police, turning us into an occupied country.

They view elections as troublesome, and those with experience living in democracy as People To Be REPLACED.

The allies of our leaders ARE the terrorists.

They are their FOOT SOLDIERS.


3 posted on 02/05/2016 1:44:57 PM PST by gaijin
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To: Syncro

The GOP is complicit in the treason which
continues every day, every hour.


4 posted on 02/05/2016 1:45:57 PM PST by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: Syncro

Japan does not have draconian laws, nor are their police expenditures sky-rocketing:

They took in THREE Syrian refugees, for the 3rd biggest economy on Earth.

THREE.


5 posted on 02/05/2016 1:46:39 PM PST by gaijin
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To: Syncro

Where is Trump and Cruz on this? Should be shouted from the roof tops!


6 posted on 02/05/2016 1:47:10 PM PST by Eagles6 ( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: gaijin

It’s also viewed as an acceptable cost of “diversity.”

The old commie “can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs.”


7 posted on 02/05/2016 1:50:05 PM PST by MUDDOG
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To: Syncro

0 = a traitor.


8 posted on 02/05/2016 1:50:21 PM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: Syncro

Rule by laws requires measured DEBATE and free exploration of ideas —this means you constantly have to explain and re-explain yourself.

The Establishment views that as onerous. They’re TIRED of it.

They now give off strong signs of rule by MEN, and their plan is simply to rule in perpetuity, no elections, no convincing people.

They will hand down the rules, and then we Shall Accept Them.

This, they think, is more convenient, more efficient.

They want subordinates with no experience holding their leaders accountable, which is why the borders must remain open.

We are slated TO BE REPLACED.


9 posted on 02/05/2016 1:54:25 PM PST by gaijin
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To: Syncro

Why didn’t Philip Haney go directly to the FBI and report this? If Director James B. Comey, the head of the FBI is such a stand up guy he should have been able to do something. Somebody needs to arrest Obama and his administrative staff before he completely scuttles America.


10 posted on 02/05/2016 1:56:43 PM PST by B4Ranch (https://www.22kill.com/)
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To: Syncro

Bookmark


11 posted on 02/05/2016 1:57:59 PM PST by moehoward
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To: Syncro

He seems to be under the mistaken impression that the purpose of DHS is to provide homeland security rather than unionized job security and perks to probable Democrat voters. < / sarcasm >


12 posted on 02/05/2016 2:00:03 PM PST by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: Diogenesis
"DHS ordered me to scrub records of Muslims with terror ties"

Diogenesis @4: The GOP is complicit in the treason which continues every day, every hour.

And because of it Traitorcongress will do....................................... nothing.

13 posted on 02/05/2016 2:00:20 PM PST by Carl Vehse
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To: Vigilanteman

The job of the DHS is to protect the government from their enemies, not from our enemies.


14 posted on 02/05/2016 2:00:40 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: gaijin

Let them start with the WH.


15 posted on 02/05/2016 2:01:55 PM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: gaijin
Let me guess: One was a PhD in a field of study which the Japanese found useful. The other two were married to Japanese nationals and interviewed extensively to ensure they were not security risks or even risks of becoming wards of the state.

Or was it the other way around?

16 posted on 02/05/2016 2:02:36 PM PST by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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17 posted on 02/05/2016 2:03:57 PM PST by DoughtyOne (the Free Republic Caucus: what FReepers are thinking, 100s or 1000s of them. It's up to you.)
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To: Eagles6

RE: Where is Trump and Cruz on this? Should be shouted from the roof tops!

Do they KNOW about this? If not, someone ought to tell them. PRONTO.


18 posted on 02/05/2016 2:08:01 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: B4Ranch

All branches of government are under the same directives. Hands tied. We have fundamentally been taken over by vote.


19 posted on 02/05/2016 2:21:00 PM PST by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: Syncro

How? He’s telling the truth


20 posted on 02/05/2016 2:21:26 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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