Criminal Peter Perl Assistant Managing Editor of the Washington Post
Posted on 06/22/2011 11:04:51 AM PDT by kristinn
Jose Antonio Vargas, a Pulitizer prize winning reporter who has worked for the Washington Post and Huffington Post, has revealed that he is an illegal alien in a coordinated media push with the New York Times and ABC News seeking amnesty for illegal aliens like him.
Vargas also revealed that he breached White House security by using a fake ID, including when he covered a state dinner. And that a superior at the Washington Post knew and approved of his actions.
Vargas made the revelations in an article he authored published in the upcoming New York Times Sunday Magazine.
Vargas writes that at age 12 he was sent to America from the Philippines by his mother to live with his naturalized American citizen grandparents. His grandfather Lolo, repeatedly broke the law to get Vargas in the U.S. and to keep him here, Vargas writes
One day when I was 16, I rode my bike to the nearby D.M.V. office to get my driver’s permit. Some of my friends already had their licenses, so I figured it was time. But when I handed the clerk my green card as proof of U.S. residency, she flipped it around, examining it. “This is fake,” she whispered. “Don’t come back here again.”
Confused and scared, I pedaled home and confronted Lolo. I remember him sitting in the garage, cutting coupons. I dropped my bike and ran over to him, showing him the green card. “Peke ba ito?” I asked in Tagalog. (“Is this fake?”) My grandparents were naturalized American citizens — he worked as a security guard, she as a food server — and they had begun supporting my mother and me financially when I was 3, after my father’s wandering eye and inability to properly provide for us led to my parents’ separation. Lolo was a proud man, and I saw the shame on his face as he told me he purchased the card, along with other fake documents, for me. “Don’t show it to other people,” he warned...
...The “uncle” who brought me here turned out to be a coyote, not a relative, my grandfather later explained. Lolo scraped together enough money — I eventually learned it was $4,500, a huge sum for him — to pay him to smuggle me here under a fake name and fake passport. (I never saw the passport again after the flight and have always assumed that the coyote kept it.) After I arrived in America, Lolo obtained a new fake Filipino passport, in my real name this time, adorned with a fake student visa, in addition to the fraudulent green card.
Using the fake passport, we went to the local Social Security Administration office and applied for a Social Security number and card. It was, I remember, a quick visit. When the card came in the mail, it had my full, real name, but it also clearly stated: “Valid for work only with I.N.S. authorization.”
When I began looking for work, a short time after the D.M.V. incident, my grandfather and I took the Social Security card to Kinko’s, where he covered the “I.N.S. authorization” text with a sliver of white tape. We then made photocopies of the card. At a glance, at least, the copies would look like copies of a regular, unrestricted Social Security card.
Later, with the help of sympathetic teachers, Vargas obtained a drivers license in Oregon using subterfuge and a fake Social Security card.
Vargas parlayed his illegally obtained identification documents into a job at the Washinton Post. He writes he confided in a superior, Peter Perl, who allowed him to continue working at the Post as an illegal alien in violation of the law.
About four months into my job as a reporter for The Post, I began feeling increasingly paranoid, as if I had “illegal immigrant” tattooed on my forehead — and in Washington, of all places, where the debates over immigration seemed never-ending. I was so eager to prove myself that I feared I was annoying some colleagues and editors — and worried that any one of these professional journalists could discover my secret. The anxiety was nearly paralyzing. I decided I had to tell one of the higher-ups about my situation. I turned to Peter.
By this time, Peter, who still works at The Post, had become part of management as the paper’s director of newsroom training and professional development. One afternoon in late October, we walked a couple of blocks to Lafayette Square, across from the White House. Over some 20 minutes, sitting on a bench, I told him everything: the Social Security card, the driver’s license, Pat and Rich, my family.
Peter was shocked. “I understand you 100 times better now,” he said. He told me that I had done the right thing by telling him, and that it was now our shared problem. He said he didn’t want to do anything about it just yet. I had just been hired, he said, and I needed to prove myself. “When you’ve done enough,” he said, “we’ll tell Don and Len together.” (Don Graham is the chairman of The Washington Post Company; Leonard Downie Jr. was then the paper’s executive editor.) A month later, I spent my first Thanksgiving in Washington with Peter and his family.
In the five years that followed, I did my best to “do enough.” I was promoted to staff writer, reported on video-game culture, wrote a series on Washington’s H.I.V./AIDS epidemic and covered the role of technology and social media in the 2008 presidential race. I visited the White House, where I interviewed senior aides and covered a state dinner — and gave the Secret Service the Social Security number I obtained with false documents.
Vargas writes that he explored his legal options when he was younger. When told he would have to leave the U.S. and be banned from returning for ten years, he opted to break the law. Now he is running a propaganda campaign for illegal aliens with help from his friends in the media.
A big concern though, is the security breach at the White House of someone using falsified documents to gain access to the president. Jeff Gannon was crucified by the liberals and the media for using a pseudonym, but not fake documents, when he was a White House reporter. There were calls for Congressional investigations into how Gannon gained access to the White House, even though Gannon used his given name, James Guckert, to obtain clearance to enter the White House.
Vargas' case, however, does cry out for investigations and prosecutions. Who else is in the media isusing fake identification documents to gain access to the White House and the president? Who else has the Washington Post helped to breach government security with fake credentials?
Vargas is rolling out a group called DefineAmerican with which he is campaigning for the DREAM act for illegal aliens. He also has a video clip on YouTube where he makes his case.
Is he registered to vote? Did he vote? Is he driving with a “valid” drivers license? I believe that “motor voter” signed into law by bill clinton has led to the registration of enough “illegal immigrants” to make the difference in close elections. It appears that “illegals” may well have been the difference in the 2010 Colorado U.S. Senate race. Motor Voter, early voting, no Id required for voting, registering and early voting combined all play a part in election fraud but according to a NY law school paper on Voter ID, “election fraud only makes a difference in the close elections. If he has violated the law jail him and then deport him.
Plus he lied on his I-9 employment forms (certifying he was a citizen) and illegally acquired a driver's license in a state he did not reside in.
And he wants me - and everyone else - to pity him?
Well, truth be told I do. The real pity is we can't ship his accomplices out with him!
That is a heckuva good idea.
Sorry, illegals get no sympathy from me.
Presumably this illegal has been voting with the documents too. Should have to face charges of voter fraud. And he’s not one of Holder’s “People”, so why not?
0bama has paved the way...
Nice, now every terrorist has the US government compromised courtesy of the media.
Well, next time try the next best thing. Take a picture, maybe with you cell phone camera (if you have one).
Criminal Peter Perl Assistant Managing Editor of the Washington Post
“The Secret Service has decided that its ineptitude can be overcome by adding more personnel.”
Same theory (sort of in reverse) as large capacity magazines. You might hit something if you throw out enough lead even if you don’t practice. Both, lead and personnel, run out at the most inopportune time.
See, ....they had a fence around the White House.......and it didn’t work!!!
So there!!
Press Conference
U.S. Attorney’s Office
June 22, 2011 Middle District of Georgia
(478) 752-3511
— filed under: Press Release
United States Attorney Michael J. Moore, Middle District of Georgia, invites the media community to attend a Press Conference on June 23, 2011at 10:00 a.m. in the United States Attorney’s Office, 300 Mulberry Street, Fourth Floor Conference Room, Macon, Georgia.
The press conference is scheduled to make an announcement concerning a National Security matter. United States Attorney Moore will be joined by Agents of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Homeland Security Investigations office in Atlanta, the Federal Bureau of Investigation Atlanta Field Office and the Commerce Department, Office of Export Enforcement (OEE) Miami Field Office.
Please attend and bring your cameras and recording equipment with you. Contact Sue McKinney, Public Affairs Specialist, at (478) 621-2602 to confirm your attendance.
I read the entire piece. The whole thing was kind of sad. I can sympathize with the writers plight. He was a kid when his family broke the law and brought him here illegally, and by his own admission he has been torn by desire not to be deported vs his knowledge that every time he filled out an application he was doing something wrong.
Not sure that it changes my opinion about the Dream act, however.
Kinda of shocked he was able to get into the White House, though.
They have the best documents money can buy. Yours were merely issued to you.
and America takes another one in the........
Once his boss knew he was at that point knowingly supplying him with false documents to enter the White house,circumvent security. These would under other circumstances constitute a serious crime. Since it’s merely an illegal alien he may get an award.
Seriously i have to think his boss is prosecuted. He in theory could have slipped a terrorist in and it’s difficult to see how Holder can let that pass,no matter how reluctant he may be to go after him.
Michelle Malkin January 3, 2003
If you thought the New Year's Eve FBI manhunt for illegal aliens with fake passports was a disturbing sign of homeland insecurity, wait until you hear about who's been working on President George W. Bush's front lawn.
While the Secret Service has now instituted criminal and citizenship screening procedures for all tourists (including children) who visit the White House, federal agents failed to detect an illegal alien who used a false identity and fraudulent documents and was employed for at least two years as a supervisor of tent installation for White House social events.
This illegal alien had been ordered kicked out of the country by the Immigration and Naturalization Service in February 2000, but was able to evade the law and fool both his employer and the Secret Service through petty identity fraud. He was finally caught at the U.S.-Mexico border last month, but it was no thanks to the law enforcement agents in Washington who are assigned to protect the White House from unknown intruders.
By the way, it was discovered Bush's Home Land Security Boss, Chertoff, had illegal aliens wandering around the inside of his private residence, during war time no less.
I have zero sympathy for this illegal alien (alleged) journalist
We don’t need a DREAM act. We need a THUGS, DRUNKS and GANGBANGERS act where we deport them immediately
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