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
she better watch it she may end up like Justice Scalia ! YOU GO AGAINST THE ESTABLISHMENT YOU PAY WITH YOUR LIFE SOMETIMES
Cockroaches dont like the lights on when they crawl………..DHS is guilty of importing the most dangerous terrorists while hiding behind the corrupt laws they pretend to enforce. They would be at the top of the prosecution list for treason.
if you liars want to pull things straight out of your$#%&!@* you ought to be forced to eat them.
Should have taken the money and then blown the whistle.
The money could have been traced. As it is she has nothing to contribute to credibility.
I thought whistleblowers were protected under Federal Law. I guess not.
If you tell the “Truth”, YOUR FIRED. bummers rule #1.
Fact, the US has really never held whistle blowers in any high regard, instead, they’re looked upon as some kind of spies. Remember Eric Snowden, Daniel Ellsberg (vietnam papers), just two whistle blowers who showed us all what sort of things the illegal things the government was doing. To this day Snowden is still wanted by the USA, as a spy.
The upshot of this 2015 testimony was that congress chose to punt the issue by passing a authorization for the EB-5 program until September 2016.
The EB-5 program is a law that by purposeful design allows wealthy foreigners to buy preferential visa and American citizenship paths through investments in projects that create jobs in America for Americans. The program is unsurprisingly riddled with corruption.
Wouldn’t accept the $100K BRIBE……..so they fired her! Speaks highly of her integrity and speaks volumes on the Evils of DHS.
DON’T CROSS ANYONE IN THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION! IF YOU DO, YOU’RE HISTORY!