[AmericanGreatness] FBI Deepens the Mystery of Philip Haney: Slain DHS whistleblower declared a criminal and remains under investigation by Customs and Border Protection for “contraband” and possible U.S. Code violations.
Tuesday February 21 marks three years since Philip Haney was “found deceased” in Amador County, California, killed by a gunshot to the chest. The victim, 66, was not the typical Sierra foothills resident.
A UC Riverside alum, Philip Haney once worked as an agricultural entomologist in the Middle East, where he studied Arabic and the Quran. With that background, Haney seemed a good fit for the Department of Homeland Security, but it didn’t turn out that way. Philip Haney was the author of See Something Say Nothing: A Homeland Security Officer Exposes the Government’s Submission to Jihad, first published in 2016. His DHS bosses didn’t like it.
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In “DHS ordered me to scrub records of Muslims with terror ties,” published in the Hill on May 5, 2016, Haney said DHS had ordered him “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).”
After Haney’s testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2016, Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) asked Jeh Johnson, DHS Secretary from 2013-17, if Haney’s testimony was accurate. “I have no idea. I don’t know who Mr. Haney is,” Johnson replied. “I wouldn’t know him if he walked into the room.” That is highly unlikely, and what happened to the embattled DHS whistleblower defies easy explanation.
In Haney’s RV, the sheriff found numerous thumb drives, a laptop computer, and other materials. Sheriff Martin Ryan turned these over to the FBI, which did not reveal what the devices contained, and the bureau remained silent on the case through 2021. Last year, the Amador County sheriff’s office reported “no new news” about Haney and said the case was closed. A month later, in March, 2022, more than two years after Haney was found deceased, the case was proclaimed a suicide.
Claims that Haney killed himself had appeared from the start, but were steadfastly denied by Haney’s friends, family, and members of Congress. In March of 2020, Representative Steve King (R-Iowa) said, “I don’t believe that Phil Haney committed suicide.” Rep. Louis Gohmert (R-Texas) told reporters “I’d been concerned about his safety, with all the information he knew and people who could’ve gotten in trouble.”
If the case had been pursued as a homicide, potential suspects would have been easy to find.
A true investigative agency would first explore who had a motive to kill Philip Haney. That would be the Islamic jihadists he exposed. Legitimate investigators also consider cui bono, those who stand to benefit from the victim’s death. Those could include the DHS and Justice Department bosses who shut down his work, and maybe even prominent politicians.
“Haney’s controversial accusations that the Obama administration could have prevented terrorist attacks were polarizing among Americans,” Laura Hoy of CNN reported on February 23, 2020. As Hoy explained, “Haney’s death is likely to become political ammo for Republicans heading into the 2020 presidential elections.”
Like the DHS, the FBI now disregards Islamic terrorism and targets patriotic Americans who value their constitutional rights and resist the racist indoctrination of their children in public schools. For the FBI, these Americans are domestic terrorists, violent extremists, dangerous militants, and so forth. Embattled Americans, and their representatives in Congress, might compare the bureau’s record on actual terrorism.
The FBI failed to track down al Qaeda terrorists and stop them from hijacking airliners and crashing them into the World Trade Center and Pentagon on September 11, 2001. The FBI knew Army Maj. Nidal Hasan was communicating with al Qaeda terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki but called off the investigation. That allowed Hasan to massacre 14 American troops and wound more than 30 others at Fort Hood, Texas, on November 5, 2009. For details, see Protecting the Force: Lessons from Fort Hood.
In April of 2013, the FBI failed to stop the Tsarnaev brothers from bombing the Boston Marathon, leaving three dead and nearly 280 wounded. The FBI failed to stop terrorists Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik from murdering 14 and wounding more than 20 in San Bernardino, California, on December 2, 2015. According to Philip Haney, this attack could have been prevented.
“The mosque that Syed Farook attended was part of that Tablighi Jamaat network,” Haney told Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy in a May 31, 2016 interview. “The administration deleted sixty-seven records out of the system that I had worked on as a component of the Tablighi case.” Had those records not been deleted, Haney said, it was plausible that Farook would not have been able to travel to Saudi Arabia, Tashfeen Malik would never have been given a visa, “and then we would have stopped the attack.”
The FBI didn’t stop it, and the bureau failed to prevent Omar Mateen from gunning down 49 people and wounding more than 50 in Orlando, Florida, on June 12, 2016. In all these cases, no word whether any FBI bosses were dismissed, demoted, or disciplined. By any reasonable standard, such abject failure should earn the FBI a severe downsizing. The Biden Junta has other plans.
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