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Obama Administration nixed probe into Southern California jihadists

Dec 16, 2015 12:38 pm By Robert Spencer

How many more people have to die before these politically correct policies are abandoned?

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“Administration nixed probe into Southern California jihadists,” by Philip Haney, The Hill, December 16, 2015:

There are terrorists in our midst and they arrived here using legal means right under the noses of the federal law enforcement agencies whose mission is to stop them. That is not due to malfeasance or lack of effort on the part of these officers; it is due to the restrictions placed on them by the Obama administration.

I was a firsthand witness to how these policies deliberately prevented scrutiny of Islamist groups. The two San Bernardino jihadists, Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik, may have benefited from the administration’s closure of an investigation I initiated on numerous groups infiltrating radicalized individuals into this country.

While working for the Department of Homeland Security for 13 years, I identified individuals affiliated with large, but less well-known groups such as Tablighi Jamaat and the larger Deobandi movement freely transiting the United States. At the National Targeting Center, one of the premier organizations formed to “connect the dots,” I played a major role in an investigation into this trans-national Islamist network. We created records of individuals, mosques, Islamic Centers and schools across the United States that were involved in this radicalization effort. The Dar Al Uloom Al Islamiyah Mosque in San Bernardino was affiliated with this network and we had identified a member of it in our investigation. Farook frequented that mosque and was well-known to the congregation and mosque leadership.

Another focus of my investigation was the Pakistani women’s Islamist group al-Huda, which counted Farook’s wife, Tashfeen Malik, as a student. While the al-Huda International Welfare Foundation distanced themselves from the actions of their former pupil, Malik’s classmates told the Daily Mail she changed significantly while studying at al-Huda, gradually becoming “more serious and strict.” More ominously, the group’s presence in the U.S. and Canada is not without its other ties to ISIS and terrorism. In 2014, three recent former students at al-Huda’s affiliate school in Canada, aged 15 to 18, left their homes to join the Islamic State in Syria.

We had these two groups in our sights; if the investigation had continued and additional links been identified and dots connected, we might have given advance warning of the terrorist attack in San Bernardino. The combination of Farook’s involvement with the Dar Al Uloom Al Islamiyah Mosque and Malik’s attendance at al-Huda would have indicated, at minimum, an urgent need for comprehensive screening. It could also have led to denial of Malik’s K-1 visa or possibly gotten Farook placed on the No Fly list.

But after more than six months of research and tracking; over 1,200 law enforcement actions and more than 300 terrorists identified; and a commendation for our efforts; DHS shut down the investigation at the request of the Department of State and DHS’ own Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Division. They claimed that since the Islamist groups in question were not Specially Designated Terrorist Organizations (SDTOs) tracking individuals related to these groups was a violation of the travelers’ civil liberties. These were almost exclusively foreign nationals: When were they granted the civil rights and liberties of American citizens?

Worse still, the administration then went back and erased the dots we were diligently connecting. Even as DHS closed my investigation, I knew that data I was looking at could prove significant to future counterterror efforts and tried to prevent the information from being lost to law enforcement. In 2013, I met with the DHS Inspector General in coordination with several members of Congress to attempt to warn the American people’s elected representatives about the threat.

In retaliation, DHS and the Department of Justice subjected me to a series of investigations and adverse actions, including one by that same Inspector General. None of them showed any wrongdoing; they seemed aimed at stopping me from blowing the whistle on this problem. Earlier this year, I was finally able to honorably retire from government and I’m now taking my story to the American people as a warning….

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Filed Under: American jihadis, Barack Obama, Featured, Jihad in the U.S., Useful idiots, willful ignorance Tagged With: Philip Haney, Syed Rizwan Farook, Tashfeen Malik


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  1. jihad3tracker says

    Dec 16, 2015 at 12:53 pm

    * * * THIS IS AN CLEARLY EXPOSES HUSSEIN OBAMA’S ISLAM-FAITHFUL CONTROL OF EVERYTHING THAT COULD STOP MORE SLAUGHTER IN AMERICA * * *

    And the fact that it is written by a recently retired DHS EMPLOYEE makes it even more evidentiary of Obama’s now-obvious seditious agenda. We have a good assortment of readers here in various U.S. states.

    PLEASE SEND A LINK TO YOUR FEDERAL ELECTED OFFICIALS RIGHT AWAY, BEFORE THE HOLIDAY BREAK. Important: direct it to one of their REGIONAL DISTRICT OFFICES — not in Washington DC, which is the one getting a true flood of emails.

  2. somehistory says

    Dec 16, 2015 at 1:08 pm

    He stopped the investigation, deleted the information and will not allow the agents to look at *social media* to see what people in other countries are saying about joining isis, engaging in terror, before being allowed into the country and who knows what else.

    (Revelation 13, the wild beast has a false prophet working for it to build an image for people to be forced to worship before the “end” comes.)

    • Liam1304 says

      Dec 16, 2015 at 4:11 pm

      That’s a very interesting slant on those verses. Thank you, food for thought.

      • somehistory says

        Dec 16, 2015 at 8:11 pm

        Thank you. I’m interested in what you think about it.

  3. Don McKellar says

    Dec 16, 2015 at 1:42 pm

    Obama doesn’t seem to care how many people must die in the cause of advancing Islam in America. In is inconsequential to him. He has proven that over and over again.

  4. Angemon says

    Dec 16, 2015 at 3:32 pm

    There are terrorists in our midst and they arrived here using legal means right under the noses of the federal law enforcement agencies whose mission is to stop them. That is not due to malfeasance or lack of effort on the part of these officers; it is due to the restrictions placed on them by the Obama administration.

    I don’t envy those law enforcement guys. It’s easy to rail against them and claim they’re ignorant or don’t know what to look for, but policies and regulations come from above. Knowing that there’s something fishy or that doesn’t feel right about someone entering the country but having your hands tied by glorified sycophantic bureaucrats who can’t tell their ass from a hole in the ground? That’s gotta bring moral down.

  5. Katnis says

    Dec 16, 2015 at 3:39 pm

    I just did a little more research on Philip Haney. I had never heard of him. His story is incredible. Years and years of work, literally erased. Why is the Obama administration more interested in protecting foreigners than protecting its own citizens?

    http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/12/11/dhs-whistleblower-philip-haney-p-c-killed-investigation-might-stopped-san-bernardino-attack/

    https://www.teapartypatriots.org/news/whistleblower-dhs-civil-rights-division-terminated-program-that-couldve-foiled-san-bernardino-terror-attack/

    This is an important story. I missed it on Fox. Thanks for sharing it here.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 16, 2015 at 6:18 pm

      Thanks for the links, Katnis.

      Kudos to Philip Haney and all his fine work in trying to keep us safe.

      But to hear how he was targeted and harassed by his own superiors is *terrifying*. And even this stalwart seemed relieved to finally retire.

      How many more are there like him, at all levels of security and law enforcement–good people who are hounded for their concerns, and who finally just step away–and how many more see these miscarriages of justice and decide that any real effort will just bring abuse, and so just do the bare minimum?

      Appalling–faced with evidence of threat, all too many of our institutions turn on the warners,

      And this extends throughout society–how many individuals would rather cling to denial about the Jihad threat, and turn on those like Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller who are working to oppose it?

  6. Transmaster says

    Dec 16, 2015 at 5:04 pm

    It does not matter what President Sparklefarts does the LA Police are still investigating and are digging up a complete can of worms. A huge embarrassment is being uncovered for this administration..

  7. Rondo says

    Dec 16, 2015 at 5:53 pm

    Anyone Using The Phrase ‘Islam Is A Religion Of Peace’ Needs To Read This by Mark Durie

    http://journal.ijreview.com/2015/12/251190-islam-religion-peace-came-politicians-need-stop-saying/

  8. gravenimage says

    Dec 16, 2015 at 6:10 pm

    Obama Administration nixed probe into Southern California jihadists
    ……………………

    Does Obama *want* another San Bernardino? Wait…don’t answer that…

  9. mortimer says

    Dec 16, 2015 at 7:37 pm

    The jihadists will get younger and be college types without any record. They will be almost impossible to implicate. ISIS is becoming better and better at going under the radar.

  10. Dave J says

    Dec 16, 2015 at 8:04 pm

    This is treason, folks. No person, organization or “religion” should be given special privileges or exemptions from the law. Least of all one that seems so hell-bent on murder and mayhem. Law enforcement must be totally unfettered in following the evidence and arresting all co-conspirators. Obama needs to be called out for his failures in this area.

    The insidious influence of the Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR and all the other pro-Islam organizations right here in America, many now deeply entrenched in our government, acts to silence the discussion and bend the media in their direction.

    Vetting of Muslim immigrants has proven to be a failure. So are we just going to go ahead with many more anyway?

    We are now all “waiting for the other shoe to drop”.

  11. Matthieu Baudin says

    Dec 16, 2015 at 10:04 pm

    Disgraceful, but no surprise at all. While the administration is fixated with ‘racists under the bed’ the head removal gang are climbing in through the windows.

  12. andrew sapia says

    Dec 17, 2015 at 10:11 am

    Please do whatever you can to publicize this. Obama Hillary and their Muslim brotherhood supporters are responsible for shutting down the counter-jihad. Send any evidence you have to the proper officials. You should be called to testify before congress.

  13. Jim Peters says

    Dec 17, 2015 at 12:06 pm

    And nobody gets fired, nobody resigns, nobody comes before the cameras and expresses regret for their obvious shortcomings. Is that because they aren’t regretful? Is it what they want? Want is going on here?
    Congressional hearings don’t work, the Senators/Congressmen committee mermbers seem clueless in their lines of questioning. The governmental witnesses say nothing actionable or hide behind the 5th. They contradict what other witnesses are saying in other hearings.
    Our government is full of useless people filling seats with their fat,shiny asses, waiting for the clock to strike 5, leaning on the water coolers, watching porn online, rubber stamping and shuffling papers, trying to figure new and clever ways to screw up the economy,bored stiff, unpatriotic, apathetic fools. They have a “job” but they aren’t working.

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