Exclusive Interview with DHS Whistle Blower Philip B. Haney Confirmed

Yesterday, I reached out to DHS whistle blower Phil Haney, author of best seller “See Something, Say Nothing” while he was on the road heading to a speaking engagement in Santa Monica, California. I texted him a message: “Like to talk to you [about] how the Port of Newark CBP (Customs Border Protection) gave Rahami a pass in 2014 after spending a year in Kandahar with his bro and Taliban central in Quetta, Pakistan.”

Today’s New York Times front page story has a partial answer in an article, “Flagged two times, bombing suspect passed scrutiny.” In the piece they talk about the National Targeting Center, where Haney had been seconded from his Customs Border Protection (CBP) enforcement officer position at the Port Of Atlanta. We learn in this NYTimes piece that the DHS CBP NTC dropped the ball. Ditto for the FBI. Doesn’t surprise us. Nor should it surprise Haney, who was forced to expunge critical reports entered into the NTC data base during the Bush years.

Add to that indications that Rahami had also traveled to Turkey presumably to enter Syria and join up with ISIS. Some of the latter appears in his bloody notebook that he held in his hand when shot by Linden , New Jersey police officers. The bloody notebook was obtained by local police and presumably went to the FBI via the JTTF in New Jersey. Somehow a copy of the contents was delivered to the Times reporters by an unnamed law enforcement officer. From the legible contents of the notebook, we learn that Rahami not only revered the late Anwat al-Awlaki, who was taken out in a US drone strike in Yemen in 2011. but he also made a point of repeating the message from the late spokesperson for the Islamic State, al-Adnani, who in May 2016 urged sympathetic Jihadis to undertake attacks against kuffars, us unbelievers. Then there is Rahami’s father allegedly noticing the FBI about his son’s sudden radicalization and turn towards terrorism after he returns from the one year sojourn in both Afghanistan and Quetta Pakistan presumably involving the side trip to Turkey.

Clearly our national counter terrorism screenings of travelers are a sieve, Perhaps this is attributable to the obsession in this Administration of maintaining high bars based on civil liberties/civil rights for potential jihadis like Rahami.

Doubtless, both Senate and House Homeland Security Committees will convene hearings on this debacle. Perhaps the Committees invite Haney to testify and confront DHS chief Jeh Johnson for sweeping this under the rug, as was done under Bush, as Haney can attest.

Flagged Two Times in 2014, Ahmad Rahami Passed Scrutiny

Mr. Rahami, accused of carrying out bombings in New York and New Jersey last weekend, had drawn federal attention after he traveled to Pakistan and his father…

NYTIMES.COM|BY MARC SANTORA, RUKMINI CALLIMACHI AND ADAM GOLDMAN

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