Philip
Haney was a frustrated patriot. Haney was a hero. He was a founder of the
United States Department of Homeland Security, created to defend America
against all enemies, both foreign and domestic, and to protect civilians
against acts of political and religious violence and terror.
Philip’s
specialty was researching and exposing global radical Islam and its
infiltration into America following 9/11.
He
tracked the development of indoctrination and terror cells in the American
homeland. Had his reports been acted upon by the Obama Administration the San
Bernadino shooting, the Orlando shooting, and the Boston Marathon bombing, may
have been prevented.
Philip
was assigned to the Intelligence Review Unit (IRU) where he submitted reports on
radical Islamists with ties to terrorism after noticing the entry into America
of suspicious individuals.
Philip
had spent time in the Middle East and Asia studying the growing problem. He had
his eye on jihadi Salafists from the Indian sub-continent. The Salafists are a
throw-back to the early days of Islam. They believe in Shariah, the Caliphate,
and are prepared to use violent means to achieve their goals.
His
job, he said, was connecting the dots. He was hunting for people with terror
links who had entered America. He focused on individuals, and organizations and
networks across the United States where indoctrination and radicalism was
taking place.
Philip
discovered that too many malevolent people were abusing the US visa system by
infiltrating into America. As he described in an interview with Glenn Beck,
they traveled around America from mosque to mosque encouraging fellow Muslims
to becoming more Salafist. He tracked their activities back in 2006.
Haney
identified the Fort Pierce mosque in Florida and the Islamic radicalization
that was being nurtured there, a radicalization that attracted a number of bad
actors.
He worked on the case for a number of years
and, as he explained, there was enough momentum to send his file to the
National Targeting Center in DC. The aim was to prevent people with evil intent
from entering into the United States and to target known threats for covert
observation.
In
2007, the Holy Land Foundation trial took place, a trial that irrefutably
proved that individuals from Muslim Brotherhood front organizations, the
Islamic Society of North America, and the North American Islamic Trust, were
actively supporting foreign terror organizations, particularly Palestinian Hamas.
The
indictment showed that US based members of the Muslim Brotherhood had
established a Palestine Committee tasked with raising money for the Hamas
terror group in Gaza and that between 1995 and 2001 the Holy Land Foundation
“charity” was an active Hamas cell in America raising millions of dollars for
the Palestinian terror group and, at the center of it all was CAIR, the
so-called civil rights group for America’s Islamic community.
This
trial was the most significant terrorism prosecution brought by the government
in the United States since 9/11.
Philip
Haney was given a commendation letter for finding three hundred terrorists
linked to his investigations. His organization prevented the incursion into
America of 1,200 suspects. Haney exposed several real and deadly terror threats
in America. Haney’s work kept Americans safe.
Then,
in 2009, Obama became president. Things changed. Political incorrectness started
to clamp down on counterterror investigations.
The
political interference of the Obama Administration began to impact the important
intelligence operations of Haney and his team.
He
was ordered to scrub the names of American Muslims with terror ties for the
sake of PC.
In
2009, about eight hundred of Haney’s records were purged by orders from above.
By
2012, Philip was investigating a larger case of another network related to the
Muslim Brotherhood. But in March 2012, the State Department, in coordination
with Janet Nepolitano, the acting head of the Department of Homeland Security
and Haney’s boss, shut the case down, despite all the evidence and the good
work that had been done.
Haney’s
work was entirely deleted from the US intelligence system.
One day after a prominent U.S. Muslim leader
reacted to the November 2015 Paris attacks with a declaration that the Islamic
State, also known as ISIS, has nothing to do with Islam, President Obama made
the same assertion.
In the same year, Philip Haney left the DHS. He wrote a book. The subtitle of Haney’s book is “A Homeland
Security Officer Exposes the Government’s Submission to Jihad.”
Then
something awful happened.
On
December 2, 2015, 14 people were killed and 22 others were seriously injured in
an Islamist terror attack against Christians preparing for Christmas in San
Bernadino, California.
The
terrorists, Syed Rizwan Farouk and Tashfeen Malik, were two of the targets
listed in Haney’s brief, as was the Florida mosque which Haney had reported that
Farouk had been radicalized.
Philip
felt he had been struck with a bolt of lightning as he watched the TV news of
the terror attack.
“I
just yelled out ‘That’s my case!’”
It
was. The implicating evidence had been eradicated by the political appeasement
of the Obama Administration and 14 people were murdered as a result.
Philip’s
conscience troubled him. He felt that if he had been allowed to pursue the
matter Americans would be alive today. He already had derogatory information
against this pair of terrorists before Malik arrived in America. She and Farouk
had been chatting to each other online about jihad and martyrdom. Had Haney’s
files been acted upon Malik would not have received a permit to enter America,
and Farouk would have been on the FBI watch list.
“Either
Syed Farouk would have been put on the no-fly list because of his association
with that mosque, or the K-1 visa that his wife was given may have been denied
because of his association with a known radical organization.”
According
to Haney, the FBI had been tracking Enrique Marquez, an illegal gun supplier,
who supplied the weapons to Syed Farouk, but they did not provide this
information to Haney’s unit in the DHS. Neither did the FBI inform them about
Omar Mateen who Haney had tracked crossing the southern border into America and
had reported to the upper echelon of the DHS and to the FBI.
On
June 12, 2016, Mateen entered an Orlando nightclub and killed 49 people and
injured 22 others in another mass shooting.
Mateen
was radicalized in the same Florida mosque as Farouk.
Philip
Haney complained about the lack of communication between different branches of
intelligence that could have prevented many deaths.
“People
are allowed to walk through the hole in our intelligence,” Haney said, to do bad things. He was
referring to the gap caused by one agency not informing the other of vital
counter-terror intelligence.
Instead
of investigating the radicals and terrorists, the CIA began to investigate him.
Haney
said he got a visit from the State Department and the DHS civil rights
division. He was told that tracking these individuals was “problematic.”
After
his reports were repeatedly ignored, and after he left the DHS, he wrote a book which
he scathingly titled, “See Something. Say Nothing,” as a protest of his
work being silenced by the administration.
I
met Philip in a Tel Aviv hotel in 2019, Philip had arrived in Israel with the
United West security group to Israel to learn how Israel was protecting its
borders.
I
had been invited by Tom Trento to meet the group and I had a private hour-long
conversation with Philip. I was amazed, shocked, by his story of an
administration that puts political-incorrectness before the safety and security
of its people.
This
may be happening in America, Canada, Britain and Europe, but there is little
likelihood that this would happen in Israel.
Philip’s
opinion was that it was an unwritten policy of the Obama Administration to
protect suspicious people and organizations spreading radical Islam in America
rather than protect Americans. That it
is was part of a presidential promise to fundamentally change America.
Philip
blew the whistle on Hillary Clinton’s State Department closing down his
investigation into perhaps America’s most radical mosques in Fort Pierce,
Florida.
This
is the mosque where notorious Sheikh Mohammed preached and from where the
Orlando terrorist shooter, Omar Mateen, was indoctrinated. This was also the
mosque in which the first American suicide bomber, Monir Mohammad Abusalha, was
indoctrinated before going to Syria to drive a truck packed with explosives
into a restaurant in 2014.
Although
the FBI, CIA, the National Counterterrorism Center and the Department of
Homeland Security created a special team of analysts to prevent American
jihadists from returning, battle-hardened, from the Middle East, Philip Haney
was frequently frustrated by the blocks and restrictions imposed on him by
senior officials reaching up to Hillary Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama.
According
to Josh Bernstein of Patriot.com media show, had Haney’s recommendations been
acted upon it would have “taken down at least seven different international
global terrorist organizations and as many as 1311 terrorists in at least eight
different countries.”
In
2016, Philip Haney courageously went public by testifying before the Senate
Judiciary Committee chaired by Senator Ted Cruz. He alleged that the Obama
Administration had acted irresponsibly with regard to Islamic extremism within
the United States. Philip claimed that the administration had acted out of “political
correctness” rather than take affirmative action that may have prevented
the June 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting, or the earlier San Bernadino shooting
of December 2015.
At
this Hearing, Philip also reported the Obama Administration for destroying or
changing eight hundred of his files relating to the growth of the Muslim
Brotherhood in America by falsely claiming they were deemed “offensive to
Muslim people.”
Philip
was open about the information he had collected. He appeared on Trevor Loudon’s
Amazon movie “The Enemy Within” talking about what was taking place in
America.
While
people like Haney were shouting the alarm about the spread of radical Islam in
America, there was a growing appeasement to a Shariah ideology and the
establishment of a counter agenda within America.
While
Obama was calling ISIS in Iraq a “JV team,” the threat assessment
from people like Haney went against the narrative of the Obama administration
and had to be blocked.
In
our hour long chat in Tel Aviv, Philip told me that people wanted to silence
him. I thought this referred to the Obama administration closing down his lines
of enquiry and resultant database of evidence.
This
immediately leapt to mind when I was told that his body had been found on
Friday, February 21, three days after he had been killed.
Apparently,
some time on Wednesday 19, Philip Haney drove from his house to a remote area,
got out of his car, walked a short distance, and shot himself in his check. At
least, this was the initial police report after his body was found.
I
don’t believe it.
His body was found in an open RV park-and-ride
area adjacent to Highway 16, less than three miles from where he had been
living in a motorhome park in Plymouth, a small community in California.
Detectives recovered documents, phone records
and a laptop from the scene, according to Monday’s news release, and the
Sheriff’s Office took possession of his vehicle, the firearm located at the
scene, and his RV to be processed and analyzed along with the evidence, with
assistance requested from the FBI.
Authorities
later retracted initial reports that Philip’s death was by suicide describing
it as “misinformation.”
Philip
was not a contortionist. Shooting oneself in the chest is almost a physical
impossibility.
Investigative
reporter and Fox News contributor, Sara Carter, said Philip was someone she
deeply respected and considered a friend. She considered his death a murder
until she receives confirmation to the contrary.
Glenn
Beck feels the same.
So
do I.
Haney
was a frustrated agent, but I do not believe he was suicidal. The facts back
this up.
Philip
Haney had a new life to look forward to in 2020. He was to be married again. According
to numerous sources, Haney was preparing to return to the Department of
Homeland Security to expose what he called the “Red-Green Axis.” This was something that Philip spoke to me
about when we met in Tel Aviv. This is the alliance between the radical left
and radical Muslims in a combined agenda to take down Western democracy and
civilization as we know it, using terror to unsettle the indigenous population.
Failing that, he intended to write a follow up book to his “See Something. Say
Nothing.”
This
was not the mental state of a potential suicide victim.
Philip
Haney did not commit suicide. He was murdered. He was murdered for what he knew
and for who he was.
Philip
Haney was a brave patriot and he died for his beliefs and his knowledge.
I
also considered him a friend.
Barry
Shaw,
Israel
Institute for Strategic Studies.
Suicide victims do not kill themselves in this like manner. When I first read the story of this I knew in my heart that the forces that are trying to destroy the western world had a hand in this. He knew too much, so they silenced him.
ReplyDeleteI heard that he carried around his neck all the secrets in a zip drive.
ReplyDeleteIslam is against Terrorism Terrorists are not following Islam. Allah says in Quran whoever kills a soul unless it is as though he has killed all mankind. Muslims Are Not Terrorists and whoever saves one life it is as if he had saved mankind entirely.
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