See Something, Say Nothing
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SEE SOMETHING SAY NOTHING
A HOMELAND SECURITY OFFICER EXPOSES THE GOVERNMENT’S SUBMISSION TO JIHAD
PHILIP HANEY & ART MOORE
SEE SOMETHING, SAY NOTHING
Copyright © 2016 by Philip Haney and Art Moore
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Names: Haney, Philip, author. | Moore, Art, 1960- author.
Title: See something, say nothing : a Homeland Security officer exposes the government’s submission to jihad / Philip Haney and Art Moore.
Description: Washington, D.C. : WND Books, [2016] | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016002298 (print) | LCCN 2016013228 (ebook) | ISBN 9781944229207 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781944229214 (eBook) | ISBN 9781944229214 (e-book)
Subjects: LCSH: United States. Department of Homeland Security. | Terrorism--Prevention--Government policy--United States. | Terrorism--Religious aspects--Islam. | Internal security--United States. | National security--United States.
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To my dear wife, Dr. Francesca Maria Haney
Thanks, Joseph Farah, Elizabeth Farah, Geoffrey Stone, Michael Thompson, Federico Lines and the WND Staff, for all you’ve done to make this book a reality.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acronyms Used in See Something, Say Nothing
Foreword by Michele Bachmann
Introduction
1 From Jeddah to San Bernardino
2 Finding the Trail
3 Shadow Line
4 Words Matter
5 Intel Scrub
6 A New Relationship
7 The Great Purge
8 Primary Access
9 Hands Off
10 Invisible Shrapnel
11 Kill the Messenger
12 Upholding My Oath
Appendix
Notes
Index
ACRONYMS USED IN SEE SOMETHING, SAY NOTHING
ACLU: American Civil Liberties Union
AMCLI: American Muslim Civic Leadership Institute
APHIS Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
ATT: Advanced Targeting Team
ATU: Advanced Targeting Unit
CAIR: Council on American-Islamic Relations
CBP: Customs and Border Protection
CBPAS: Customs and Border Protection agricultural specialist
CBPO: Customs and Border Protection officer
CIA: Central Intelligence Agency
CIIG: Customs Intelligence Implementation Group
CRCL: Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
CSCC: Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications
CTCC: Counter Terrorism Communications Center
CVE: Countering Violent Extremism
DDER: Deception Detection and Elicitation Response
DFO: District Field Office
DHS: Department of Homeland Security
DOD: Department of Defense
DOJ: Department of Justice
ECFR: European Council for Fatwa and Research
FBI: Federal Bureau of Investigation
FCNA: Fiqh Council of North America
FIS: Federal Inspection Station
FLETC: Federal Law Enforcement Training Center
FOIA: Freedom of Information Act
HLF: Holy Land Foundation
HSAC: Homeland Security Advisory Council
IAP: Islamic Association of Palestine
IAU: Islamic American University
ICE: Immigration and Customs Enforcement
ICSC: Islamic Center of Southern California
ICT: International Institute for Counter-Terrorism
IG: Inspector general
IIE: Institute for Islamic Education
IIIT: International Institute of Islamic Thought
IMMA: Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs
INS: Immigration and Naturalization Service
IRU: Intelligence Review Unit
IRW: Islamic Relief Worldwide
ISB: Islamic Society of Boston
ISNA: Islamic Society of North America
IUMS: International Union of Muslim Scholars
JTTF: Joint Terrorism Task Force
LEO: Law enforcement officer
LPR: Lawful permanent resident
MAS: Muslim American Society
MPAC: Muslim Public Affairs Council
MSA: Muslim Students Association
NAAE: National Association of Agricultural Employees
NAIT: North American Islamic Trust
NCTC: National Counterterrorism Center
NSCT: National Strategy for Counterterrorism
NTC: National Targeting Center
NTC-P: National Targeting Center-Passenger
NTEU: National Treasury Employees Union
ODNI: Office of the Director of National Intelligence
OFAB: One Face at the Border
OIC: Organization of the Islamic Conference
OIOC: Office of Intelligence and Operations Coordination
PAU: Passenger Analysis Unit
PPQ: Plant Protection and Quarantine
RAC: Resident agent in charge
SAC: Special agent in charge
SEFIU: Southeast Field Intelligence Unit
SME: Subject matter expert
TDY: temporary duty yonder
TECS: Treasury Enforcement Communications System
TJ: Tablighi Jamaat
TSA: Transportation Security Administration
UAE: United Arab Emirates
USCIS: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
USDA: United States Department of Agriculture
FOREWORD
As a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, I helped oversee the nation’s clandestine services, focusing primarily on classified information related to the rise of terrorism through Islamic jihad. Ten years before I was appointed to the committee, America was attacked on September 11, 2001, by dedicated and trained young Muslim men. President George W. Bush and the US Congress responded by creating the Department of Homeland Security. Intended to thwart future terror attacks, airline security procedures were initiated at American airports together with security measures at nuclear power plants, water reservoirs, electrical power stations, and more.
Behind the scenes, our government hired men and women to create new security procedures to identify and to stop individuals who were terror risks from entering the United States. Other positions were created to look for patterns and links to terror organizations trying to bring down the United States both from within and without our borders.
The United States made a decision to go on offense to protect the American people, our property and our way of life against another 9/11. We now know that 9/11 was an attack by terrorists motivated by a literal belief in and active adherence to est
ablishing Islamic sharia law in the US as the law of our land. But in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 tragedy, our commander in chief, George W. Bush, and his administration publicly insisted Islam was a religion of peace.
To the American people, the “religion of peace” narrative sounded suspicious and didn’t ring true to what the nation had just endured. They saw young, foreign-born Muslim men living in America on expired visas. Americans saw young men who intentionally trained for horrific attacks against our nation under the direction of the infamous terrorist that former President Bill Clinton chose to let get away in the 1990s – Osama bin Laden. Bin Laden was committed to acts of terrorism to advance the establishment of a global Islamic government, a caliphate ruled by Islamic sharia law. Bin Laden and his Muslim followers believed it was their duty to their god Allah to destroy America, which they regarded as a “friend of Satan.”
Strangely, the US government willfully blinded itself to the Islamic terrorist motivation found in the guidebooks of Islam: the Quran and the Hadith. This motivation ignited violent terror against the United States and has only intensified around the world since. In other words, the official position of the US government regarding the origin of 9/11 was, “Don’t believe your lyin’ eyes!”
Enter Philip Haney. A founding member of the newly established Department of Homeland Security, Philip wasn’t a guy looking to punch a clock until he could collect a pension check from the federal government. He dedicated himself, rather, to investigating the actual evidence of Islamic jihad as it really was, not as the forces of official bureaucratic political correctness deemed it should be.
As evidence of Philip’s work ethic and value to DHS, he was granted numerous awards and certificates of commendation by his superiors. Living in post-9/11 America, citizens instinctively hoped and blindly trusted that our government had hired legions of Philip Haneys to diligently search for and uncover terror plots.
We wanted to believe our government was actively looking for clues and puzzle pieces to expose terror plots before another 9/11 unfolded. Philip did exactly that. He punched above his weight and amazingly uncovered networks and names of terrorists, and more. He went to his superiors with his information, but was actively undermined and shut down.
His work as an exemplary DHS employee was brought to my attention as a member of the United States Congress. After the 2010 elections, when I was appointed to serve on the House Select Committee on Intelligence, I learned and came to appreciate that the best intelligence information is grounded in truth: good, bad, or ugly.
I also learned that politically motivated interpretations of intelligence, whether shaded by political correctness, or by a desire not to embarrass a boss, or for other selfish reasons could get innocent people killed. Our intelligence analysts, like Philip at DHS, worked extremely hard to provide decision-makers like me with accurate, truthful information. Now, for the first time, readers will have the opportunity to learn the shocking truth of what Philip uncovered about terrorist networks operating in and outside the United States.
In See Something, Say Nothing you will learn how Philip Haney was not only shut down by his superiors at DHS but how he was silenced at a critical moment in the war on terror. These tragic, treasonous actions perhaps allowed the San Bernardino, California, shooters to enter the United States rather than be exposed and denied entry. If we had a sane administration, Philip’s superiors would have listened to his pleas and would have rewarded rather than punished his service. Could Philip Haney’s prescient warnings have saved innocent Americans from the San Bernardino tragedy? Read on and you decide.
For me, upon meeting Philip it was quickly apparent that he was legit and that the information he put together was profoundly important to protecting the safety of our nation. It was outrageously inexplicable that Philip was shut down by his superiors just as terror threats against the United States grew exponentially by the day, in light of President Obama’s obviously failed foreign policy decisions.
I believed Philip and did everything I could within my power to introduce him to the decision-makers in DC who had the authority to see to it that his profound discoveries could be heard and heeded – before it was too late.
I thank God for this nation, and I thank God for patriots like Philip, a federal employee who risked much during his exemplary career to keep you and me safe from terrorists. Philip Haney is a national treasure. His discoveries deserve the thanks, respect, admiration, and appreciation of every American citizen. As a civilian and as a former member of the US Congress, I say, Thank you Philip Haney for risking your all to keep our nation safe. You’ve demonstrated courage under fire.
– US REP. MICHELE BACHMANN, FORMER MEMBER OF THE US CONGRESS AND THE HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE
INTRODUCTION
At airports, train stations, sporting events, and just about anywhere Americans congregate in significant numbers, signs posted by the Department of Homeland Security urge, “If you see something, say something.”
The campaign’s stated aim is to “empower everyday citizens to protect their neighbors and the communities they call home by recognizing and reporting suspicious activity.”1
“Tell the authorities who, when, and where you saw something, and specifically what you saw,” the federal government asks of its citizens.2
When Philip Haney, a founding member of the DHS, saw something, he went above and beyond the call of duty to say something, according to his immediate superiors, who formally commended him numerous times for identifying direct and potential threats to the nation’s security.
In his roles as an officer with the agency’s Customs and Border Protection division, the nation’s gatekeeper, and as a specialist at the National Targeting Center, the hub of intelligence for the CBP’s counterterrorism efforts, he meticulously assembled actionable and background intelligence on hundreds of individuals and organizations.
But beginning with the later years of the George W. Bush administration and accelerating under the Obama administration, his efforts to report “suspicious activity” were met with punishing opposition.
Amid pressure from many of the very Muslim Brotherhood leaders he identified as threats to national security, a policy emerged that forbade mention of Islam in association with terrorism and downplayed supremacist Islam as just one among many violent ideological movements.
The policy, known as Countering Violent Extremism,3 or CVE, forced Haney into a ten-year adversarial relationship with the agency’s politically appointed officials and their subordinates.
While Haney was being commended by his colleagues and immediate superiors for identifying terrorist threats, his agency moved to push him out as it began exchanging the objective of enforcing the law with promoting civil liberties for Muslims.
He found himself at the center of many of his agency’s most seminal events since its founding, including the Boston Marathon bombing, which exposed the deadly consequences of the policy and set in motion an apparent cover-up on behalf of a major ally that continues to this day.
He witnessed the federal government’s development and execution of a “hands-off” policy specifically designed to protect Muslim leaders with known ties to Islamic supremacism and violent jihad, allowing them to freely enter and exit the United States.
He saw leaders of Muslim Brotherhood front groups invited into the highest chambers of power and given access to sensitive information to allow them to shape the nation’s security policy.
When Philip Haney saw something and said something, some of his bosses – all the way up to the White House – responded not with gratefulness but with orders to sanitize or eliminate the information and launch investigations against him instead of the documented threats to the nation’s security.
Newly retired, he’s telling his story to the public for the first time in further fulfillment of his oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”
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FROM JEDDAH TO SAN BERNARDINO
I stood at a tinted window on the second floor of the Customs and Border Protection agency’s National Targeting Center (NTC) headquarters on March 27, 2012, on the outskirts of the nation’s capital as a State Department van approached the entrance.
From the outside, the NTC building in Reston, Virginia, is a nondescript, dark-paned, office-park structure. On the inside, it looks like a scene from a Hollywood spy thriller: an intelligence nerve center of earnest and focused faces lit by the glow of giant TV screens and hundreds of computer monitors.
Established shortly after the 9/11 attacks, the NTC provides background and actionable intelligence in real time to frontline Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officers trying to stop people who pose a threat to the nation’s security from entering through more than 350 air, land, and seaports across the country.
As a Customs and Border Protection officer from Atlanta since the formation of DHS in 2003, I was on a temporary-duty assignment at the NTC that had begun in November 2011. I was now working with the Advanced Targeting Team, the center’s top unit.
The white State Department van pulled up to the curb, and seven men in black suits filed out. Up the stairs came an entourage of lawyers, along with three executive-level officials, who had come in a separate vehicle.
Assembled at a long oval table with my NTC colleagues, the officials wanted to talk about an initiative I helped launch, partly in response to a request by members of Congress to plug security holes in the Visa Waiver Program, which allows nearly 20 million people from thirtyeight friendly countries to enter the United States without a visa.
The officials apparently had “concerns” about our effort, which in government vernacular is never a good sign.
The project focused on vetting members of a worldwide Islamic group with more than 70 million members, known as Tablighi Jamaat.
Derived from the Deobandi movement in India, Tablighi Jamaat, or “the party of the promoters,” trains and sends out Islamic missionaries in groups of two, three, or more who go door to door, visiting mosques and encouraging their Muslim brethren to live the strict, ascetic lifestyle of Islam’s prophet, Muhammad.