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DHS ordered me to scrub records of Muslims with terror ties
The Hill ^ | 02/05/2016 | Philip Haney

Posted on 02/05/2016 1:28:52 PM PST by aimhigh

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.

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.”

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TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: dhs; mulsims; wot
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1 posted on 02/05/2016 1:28:52 PM PST by aimhigh
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2 posted on 02/05/2016 1:31:59 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: aimhigh

Meanwhile:
Google to redirect “extremist searches” (as defined by them)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3393402/posts

U.S. Eyes Ways To Toughen Fight Against Domestic Extremists (as defined by the left)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3393239/posts


3 posted on 02/05/2016 1:32:58 PM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: DoughtyOne

Hoe does the word TREASON apply to this?


4 posted on 02/05/2016 1:38:50 PM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: MarvinStinson

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


5 posted on 02/05/2016 1:46:52 PM PST by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: aimhigh

ISIS is in the building.


6 posted on 02/05/2016 1:48:44 PM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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To: aimhigh
... 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 enemy is in the gate and at the guard post.

7 posted on 02/05/2016 1:50:24 PM PST by VRW Conspirator (American Jobs for American Workers.)
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To: MarvinStinson

Were you trying to post to the top post?


8 posted on 02/05/2016 1:50:35 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: aimhigh

Paul Ryan will be assigning a Special Investigator soon to look into this serious abuse of the system before there is a terrorist attack and deaths. /sarc


9 posted on 02/05/2016 1:54:22 PM PST by Vic S
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To: Vic S

There are many traitors in our midst...especially in the Fed government.


10 posted on 02/05/2016 1:57:37 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: aimhigh

bumpus maximus


11 posted on 02/05/2016 6:57:46 PM PST by KC Burke
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