Posted on 02/05/2016 1:41:13 PM PST by Syncro
February 05, 2016, 12:00 pm
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.
This is just a small part of the continuum of treason by the regime and I have yet to hear any candidate call it what it is.
I wouldn’t shed a tear if Washington DC was his by an asteroid. In fact I might even cheer. There is not a single soul there who is protecting the Constitution.
November 2016 is take out the garbage day!
AMEN to that!!! Anyone who supports amnesty, CFR, H1B visas; TTP; TPA....throw them out on their butts!!!
I will vote for a new person on the block before I send by any of the people from my state and that includes Mike Lee....we need to let them in there one term, if they don’t produce to serve and protect America, vote them OUT!!!
Obama's fingerprints are all over this.
OK, but my question remains - what was the rationale given by his supervisors to scrub the records, and what in particular were they to look for when deciding what to scrub?
I can fully believe there's bad intent, but the blogger gives us nothing to work with to evaluate what really happened. He's just throwing out a fact with no context.
Don't you think his supervisors had an explanation? If they didn't that's damning evidence, but he doesn't even address the issue.
Exactly. Notice what 0dunga did immediately following the terror attack in SB? He attacked the 2nd Amendment and announced further restrictions. When will the next attack be, and how bad, and how many MORE restrictions will be enacted?
Chinese immigrants are INVADING my city. They DON’T speak English and they seem to be very adept at having FEMALE anchor babies THAT CRY AROUND THE CLOCK!!!
They’re being paid $150B NOT to do that.
HF
It’s Obama and his satanic crew.
They don’t need no stikin’ reasons!
I think we can figure it out.
The pile of damning evidence against Obama, Holder, Hillary, Rahm, Jarrett, Hillary’s little Islamic terrorist girl toy Huma, Leaner, Rice and the rest of his little demons would circle the earth 245.3 times at least.
Their Teflon will eventually turn into tar and we can add the feathers.
This whistleblower is going to be a bit careful because there are laws to protect whistleblowers, they usually get destroyed instead.
Obama and his crew are in cahoots with powers and principalities of Biblical proportions.
POTUS ordered #DHS to purge databases of people with #jihad terror ties, making DHS unable to stop #terror attacks. https://t.co/HoitP3u4T0— J Michael Waller (@JMichaelWaller) February 6, 2016
I am sure that someone before me has already commented that this is TREASON. Whether Obama wants to acknowledge it or not we are in a war against Islamic terrorists. The vast majority of Muslims found throughout the world support the terrorists if surveys are to be believed.
And even then, they are not allowed into the baths.
Still freaks me out that Timothy Geithner’s father worked with Obama’s mother. Coincidence? Connect the dots and it gets very weird. And why are so many players from Chicago?
DHS is toast.
Gone.
Done.
As soon as the RW (TRUMP) is in control.
Useless Agency.
Man, imagine all the tell all books when Obama is finally out of the White House. If anyone knows where all the bodies are buried it is these guys.
Valerie Jarrett is a COMMUNIST from a family of COMMUNISTS
The Communist Party USA continues to back their friend Barack Obama.
How deeply has the Communist Party been involved in advancing Obamas political career-through the Jarrett family, or by other means?
The answers to these questions will have major implications for the future of what’s left of the free world
It is now well established that Barack Obama was linked to the Hawaiian Communist Party network through his boyhood/teenage mentor Frank Marshall Davis.
It is also well known that after moving to Chicago, Obama linked up with the local communist networks.
Manning Marable, a leader of the Communist Party offshoot Committees of Correspondence for Democracy&Socialism claims that Obama understands what socialism is. A lot of the people working with him are, indeed, socialists with backgrounds in the Communist Party or as independent Marxists. There are a lot of people like that in Chicago who have worked with him for years...
This leads to two key questions.
A Were the Hawaii and Chicago networks connected?
B Did Obama’s connection to Frank Marshall Davis in any way influence his progress up the Chicago political ladder?
If the answer is yes to both, there are significant implications.
Valerie Jarett is a COMMUNIST
Dee Myles is a Chicago activist and chair of the Education Commission of the Communist Party USA. In 2004, after Vernon Jarret’s death from cancer she penned this tribute for the People’s Weekly World of June 5th.
Readers like me can be extremely selective of the journalists we read habitually... We are selective about the journalists to whom we become insatiably addicted, and once hooked we develop a constructive love affair without the romance...
Such was my experience with Vernon Jarrett, an African American journalist in Chicago who died at the age of 86 on May 23. I became a Vernon Jarrett addict, and I am proud of it!
Vernon Jarrett’s career as a journalist in Chicago began and ended at the Chicago Defender, the African American daily paper. In between, he was the first Black journalist at the Chicago Tribune, and I first began to read his articles during his tenure at the Chicago Sun-Times
Jarrett’s claim to fame is that he was a partisan of the cause of African Americans in the broad democratic tradition of Paul Robeson and W.E.B. DuBois...
Robeson and DuBois were both Communist Party members. On April 9th, 1998 at Chicago’s South Shore Cultural Center, Jarrett hosted a Paul Robeson Citywide Centennial Celebration event, with his old comrade and Party sympathiser Margaret Burroughs and former Communist Party members Studs Terkel and his old friend Oscar C.Brown.
Dee Myles continues;
Jarrett was fanatical about African Americans registering and voting in mass for socially conscious candidates. He championed Harold Washington like a great warrior, and this March, from his hospital bed, wrote an article appealing to Black Chicago to turn out to vote for Barack Obama in the Illinois primaries. Obama astounded everyone with an incredible landslide victory as the progressive, Black candidate for the Democratic Party nomination for the U.S. Senate seat from Illinois. From his sickbed, Vernon Jarrett issued a clarion call, and the people responded.
The Jarrett/Obama conection did not end with Vernon Jarrett’s death-it moved to a higher level with his famous daughter-in-law Valerie Jarrett.
A former Deputy Corporation Counsel for Finance and Development under Harold Washington, Jarrett continued to work in the mayor’s office into the 1990s.
In 1991, while Deputy Chief of Staff for Mayor Richard Daley, Jarrett hired Michelle Robinson, then engaged to Barack Obama.
Later Valerie Jarrett ran the finances for Obama’s 2004 Senate bid and served as treasurer of Obama’s HOPEFUND.
The relationship is more than professional-Jarrett is regarded as one of the Obamas’ closest friends and advisors.
According to Take Political Action May 24th 2008;
“She’s always been the other side of Barack’s brain.†That’s how an Obama insider described Valerie Jarrett as an Obama campaign aide announced Thursday night the former CTA chief and current Habitat Co. CEO is taking on a larger role to help her close friend win his White House bid.
The development comes as Jarrett, a charter member of Sen. Barack Obama’s kitchen cabinet, has been formalizing her portfolio and stepping up the pace within the past few weeks as a top advisor within the campaign.
Though she will be part-time, Jarrett will be one of the most visible and powerful African-Americans in the top rungs of the Obama operation...
Today Valerie Jarrett serves as one of three Senior Advisors to President Obama. She is Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement, and Chairs the White House Commission on Women and Girls.
Would there be an Obama/Jarrett relationship today, if there had been no Frank Marshall Davis/Jarrett connection through the Communist Party of post war Chicago?
Wouldn’t it be great if he could join all those former Illinois governors in the penitentiary?
This is what happens when a nation is controlled by the same parties for 150 years. Democrat and Republicans must go and we must have a system that allows people freedom in their choices.
Which is what the founding fathers knew from the year one.
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