February, Monday 24th., 2020
"...Sources said Haney, who
formally retired in 2015, was recently in contact with top government
officials about return to work with DHS. He was also engaged to be
married.
Haney gained national
attention after he called out the DHS under the Obama administration, of
which he criticized for its handling of radical Jihadists and Islamic
extremists, in 2016.
He would testify
that DHS ordered him to delete hundreds of files pertaining to people
with ties to Islamist terrorist groups and argued that several terrorist
attacks in the U.S. could have been prevented if certain files were
maintained.
'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 2016. ..."
DHS whistleblower who criticized the Obama administration's handling
of Islamic terrorism is found dead on a road side with a
'self-inflicted gunshot wound'
- Whistleblower Philip Haney, 66, was found dead in Plymouth, California
- Authorities say he had a 'single, self-inflicted gunshot wound' and was found near his car Friday morning
- A formal cause of death, motive or details surrounding Haney's death have not been released by authorities
- Haney criticized the Department of Homeland Security under the Obama administration for its handling of radical Jihadists and Islamic extremists
- He claimed that DHS ordered him to delete hundreds of files pertaining to people with ties to Islamist terrorist groups
- Haney argue that several terrorist attacks in the U.S. could have been prevented if certain files were maintained
- He testified in front of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee in 2016
Department
of Homeland Security whistleblower Philip Haney, who spoke out against
his own agency during the Obama administration, was found shot dead in California.
The
Amador County Sheriff's Office said that authorities responded to
reports of a man lying on the ground with an apparent gunshot injury
near Highway 124 and Highway 16 in Plymouth.
Red State and Heavy said Haney had been missing since Wednesday, and that the gunshot wound was found in his chest.
'Upon
their arrival, they located and identified 66-year-old Philip Haney,
who was deceased and appeared to have suffered a single, self-inflicted
gunshot wound,' said authorities, according to the Washington Examiner.
Philip Haney (pictured), a former
Department of Homeland Security official who blew the whistle on the
agency, was found dead Friday with a gunshot wound
'A
firearm was located next to Haney and his vehicle. This investigation
is active and ongoing. No further details will be released at this
time.'
Authorities
have not shared any further details as they investigate Haney's death,
no arrests have been made and a motive has not been made clear.
Although the nature of Haney's death has not determined, a Fox News contributor suggested he was murdered.
'Somebody
I deeply respected and considered a friend Phil Haney - a DHS
whistleblower during the Obama Admin was apparently killed yesterday in
Southern California. Pray for his family and pray they find the person
who murdered him,' she wrote on Twitter.
Fox News contributor Sara A. Carter
suggested shared condolences to Haney's family and suggested the former
official was murdered
Sources said Haney, who
formally retired in 2015, was recently in contact with top government
officials about return to work with DHS. He was also engaged to be
married.
Haney gained national
attention after he called out the DHS under the Obama administration, of
which he criticized for its handling of radical Jihadists and Islamic
extremists, in 2016.
He would testify
that DHS ordered him to delete hundreds of files pertaining to people
with ties to Islamist terrorist groups and argued that several terrorist
attacks in the U.S. could have been prevented if certain files were
maintained.
'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 2016.
Haney (pictured) testified before
the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee in 2016 that DHS deleted hundreds of
files about people with ties to Islamist terrorist groups
In
regards to a thwarted terror attack on a Christmas Day flight to
Detroit, Michigan, Haney recalled how Obama cast blame on DHS for not
identifying the threat
'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.'
He also called out the administration for prioritizing 'political correctness' over safety.
'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.'
Haney said the
devastating 2016 Orlando Pulse Nightclub shooting and 2015 San
Bernardino terror attack could have been prevented if DHS took the right
precautions.
In a 2015 interview with Fox News, Haney said his and other DHS employees efforts were stalled after they were accused of unfairly targeting Muslims.
If
not halted, he said, they could have prevented the San Bernardino
attack orchestrated by Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik that killed 14
people.
The couple could have 'very
plausibly' been flagged to the security services over their connections
to Deobandi Movement, and its sub-groups al-Huda and Tablighi Jamaat,'
Haney said.
'Either Syed would have
been put on the no-fly list because of his association with that mosque,
and or the K-1 visa that his wife was given may have been denied
because of his affiliation with a known organization,' he said.
At
the time of Haney's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee,
Republicans questioned former Obama-era DHS Secretary Jet Johnson about
the allegations.
Sen. Ted Cruz asked:
'Was Mr. Haney's testimony that the Department of Homeland Security
order over 800 documents ... altered or deleted accurate?'
Johnson replied he had 'no idea' and denied ever knowing who Haney was.
'I don't know who Mr. Haney is. I wouldn't know him if he walked into the room,' he said.
Red State and Heavy said Haney (pictured) has been missing since Wednesday and was not seen until he was found Friday
During
that same year, Haney released his first book, See Something Say
Nothing: A Homeland Security Officer Exposes the Government's Submission
to Jihad' about his experiences in DHS.
He told the Washington Examiner through text that he planned on writing a sequel.
'The National Security Meltdown sequel will pick up right where SSSN left off,' he wrote.
'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.'
Haney became a
founding member of the Department of Homeland Security in 2002 as a
Customs & Border Protection agricultural officer.
He would go on to serve as an armed CBP officer before being promoted to its Advanced Targeting Team.
Haney specialized in Islamic theology and the strategies used by the global Islamic movement.
Read more:
- Obama DHS whistleblower found dead with gunshot wound in California
- Report: Philip Haney, Obama Administration Whistleblower, Shot to Death
- Philip Haney Dead: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know | Heavy.com
- DHS ordered me to scrub records of Muslims with terror ties | TheHill
- Whistleblower: DHS Pulled Plug on Surveillance That Could've ID'ed CA Terrorists | Fox News Insider
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