Correction: This happened in 2015 and not 2016. ~ N.E.H.
I ran across this story that was published earlier this year...February 9th, 2016, five days after the testimony before Congress. Now I know it's just about impossible to keep up with all the news but I try...even thought the main stream media (MSM) tries to keep anything that reflects badly on their agenda. And the following is one such adverse story; because the MSM just loves Harry Reid and they don't like Harry getting caught up in a scandal.
Well this appears more than just a scandal...more like a miscarriage of justice and other things sometimes described with words not suitable for print. This guy should have been sent to jail a long time ago and yet he remains because our corrupt government allows it...and our complacent citizens simply forget the news once the newspaper has been put down, the radio station changed or the television turned off.
Now what I would like to see is that all stories of wrongdoing by any elected official be kept alive until the dirt bag is in jail...this is one such story! ~ Norman E. Hooben
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EXCLUSIVE: ICE Whistleblower Fired After Refusing DHS Hush Money
By Evan Gahr
The Department of Homeland Security on Thursday (Feb. 4, 2016)
dismissed an ICE whistleblower it was secretly smearing
to reporters after she testified before Congress about her troubles with
the agency.
Special Agent Taylor Johnson — who had a storied career
until she irked Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid by objecting to a VISA
program for foreign investors tied to the senator’s son— says she declined to take a $100,000
severance package because it included a non-disclosure agreement.
Gee, what a great use of taxpayer money that would have
been. Pay a woman not to talk about what already got nationwide
coverage when she talked about it before
Congress (see video below).
DHS Acting Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Todd
Breasseale did not respond to multiple inquiries about the reason for Johnson’s
dismissal and why they tried to buy her silence.
Despite all the media coverage of her case, including a Washington
Gadfly report
that the ICE press secretary with the approval of Breasseale was peddling
confidential information to discredit her in violation of the Privacy Act,
Taylor is not surprised she got the boot.
“My entire chain of command was appointed by Obama,” she remarked.
“They can do anything they want.”
In testimony last June to the Senate
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Johnson said she
was stripped of her gun and badge, without explanation, after discovering fraud
and abuse.
“Some of the violations investigated surrounding the project
included bank and wire fraud, and I discovered ties to organized crime and
high-ranking politicians and they received promotions that appeared to
facilitate the program,” Johnson testified.
She said that during her investigation in 2013, she “discovered
that EB-5 applicants from China, Russia, Pakistan, Malaysia had been approved
in as little as 16 days” and that case files “lacked the basic and necessary
law enforcement queries.”
At ICE, Johnson had amassed many awards and never had any
disciplinary problems. But everything changed abruptly in 2013 when she invoked
the ire of Senator Reid by holding up a visas for a foreigner investor in a Las
Vegas casino represented by his son, attorney Cory Reid.
The Senator’s office complained to Johnson’s Special Agent in
Charge. She was then placed on administrative leave, without explanation, on
October 13, 2013.
Under pressure from Senate Democratic staffers Johnson did not
mention in her testimony the role Reid’s office played in her ouster. But the
DHS Inspector General concluded in a report
last March that U.S. Customs and Immigration Services (USCIS) director
Alejandro Mayorkas intervened in “an unprecedented matter” to approve EB-5
visas for the Las Vegas casino investors after pressure from Reid’s office.
The report essentially vindicated
complaints by Johnson and other DHS employees about the program.
DHS has never given any public explanation for the disciplinary
action it took against Johnson. After the hearing a DHS spokeswoman said they
do not talk about personnel matters.
But this past December,
ICE press secretary Gillian Christensen, citing confidential information from
Johnson’s file, tried
to convince this reporter off the record that she was a dishonest and a
problem employee.
That argument is going
to be even harder to peddle now that the Department would have allowed Johnson
to leave with a clean work record and $100,000 in spending money if she
promised to keep her mouth shut.
Johnson is soliciting
donations on gofundme.com to
cover legal fees for a possible federal lawsuit.
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The following video added to this blog on December 9th, 2016 just as a reminder of just how complacent we are as a nation... If you were to diagnose the cause of the fall of nations, complacency is one of the first observable symptoms.
So you don't believe America is complacent...this video was published on June 19, 2015 and Obama is still in the White House. What the hell is wrong with your brain?
Why nothing has been done about this ↓ is astounding... Obama should be hung in the public square for supporting the Muslim Brotherhood...those of you who disagree should be hanged with him!
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