The administration’s contempt for whistleblowers was on full display in its treatment of a brave ICE agent who took a stand for our country’s immigration laws.
Thinking she was doing the responsible thing by going to Congress to voice her complaints, the Department of Homeland Security unceremoniously dismissed ICE Special Agent Taylor Johnson. Her dismissal comes in the wake of revelations that the department was leaking information to newspapers to tarnish Johnson’s image.
DHS’ conduct must have been extremely bad for them to not only do that, but to also offer her a $100,000 severance package, provided she did not discuss her case publicly any further. Disgusted by the offer, Johnson flatly rejected it and plans to continue speaking out against what she saw at ICE.
A veteran agency employee, Johnson was up on her way in the world when she incurred the wrath of Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid by opposing a foreign-backed visa program. Since then, she has been hounded by administrative hassling that culminated in her dismissal this week.
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Johnson’s troubles began back in 2013, when she uncovered visa applicants from countries like China, Russia and Pakistan were being admitted into the US with little to no attempt to verify their trustworthiness. Being a model agent with many awards and no disciplinary issues, she aimed to solve the problem. But things took a turn for the worst when she crossed paths with one Cory Reid, son of the senator from Nevada.
“Despite all the media coverage of her case, including a Washington Gadflyreport 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.”
Source: Daily Caller
This is why we have to fight back…government officials are crooked as hell, taking perks right and left, being paid by lobbyists, and expecting us to swallow their lies and crooked ways….oh yeah, folks it’s time to clean out Congress and all elected officials…do not give them multiple terms….
You may have a point , but in the current political climate , people may want look for substance verses the grammar police , just saying .
We all, conservative, republican, independent, WHAT EVER, MUST, absolutely must, vote for who ever wins the Republican nomination. Let’s fight it out over who we want, but, when that tally is in, and the nomination is decided, let’s get behind that person. If we don’t, this country that we know and love, will be changed in ways that we can’t fully imagine. Are you in?
From the 2009 Navy SEALs Special Court Martial, to Benghazi, to in-our-face claiming for 7 days San Bernadino was Work Related Violence as if everyone on earth is that stupid, on and on, the bail-out after the market crash that Bill Clinton helped create when he repealed Glass-Stegall Act 1933 that protected the economy from the banking system all these years after the Great Depression, Hillary emails, now, we suddenly have some of the historically largest government land grabs to collect on mineral rights under the pretext of saving birds, and I can hazard to only guess the further purpose is to locate and feed so called “refugees” on our tax dollars, I can go on and on and on…
For the Senate: “A simple majority vote is required to confirm or to reject a Supreme Court nominee.” The president has only the right to “nominate” a justice, and the senate has the right to “refuse,” but this is what would be justice for Obama and Hillary and Lynch as well:
18 U.S. Code § 2381 – Treason
Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
COME ON IN, MUSLIMS! WELCOME TO OUR COUNTRY! 🙂
I hope somebody can help her sue them
DHS doesn’t pay anything WE do. Why would WE want to pay someone off to prevent whistleblowing? Why would the corrupt with-in government be able to use our $ to pay off people to hide their dirty deeds? Where are the real D.A.’s/Cops? Or are there really none just a few they put forward from time to time to keep the public quelled, stewing the pot of boiling frogs they call their herd/the public.
more whistleblowers have been fired or in jail the obama administration is by far the worst on this policy
Glad I got the Skidsteer to dig a hole to bury all the blue helmets!
OK Congress, time to cut obama’s bedget a bit more. If you really care about any of this.