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
We will neither be belittled nor marginalized. Call the US Capitol @ 202-224-3121 to speak to your congressman and Senators to express your views about the immigration crisis and Obama’s corruption. We have seen what is happening in Europe. We do not want that to happen in the USA. Spread the word!
Is thi the kind of country you want
Remember Lois Learner of the IRS? Remember the Convention UN Vegas. and how many used Taxpayers money for partying it up. No justice for taxpayers. My first thought when this became public was What was a government agency having a convention?? Here she and many under her were.holding process of many organizations because an agenda to hurt the other parties…look at all the taxpayers money they wasted and taxpayer will never get one penny back and she and cohorts are free.
ok REPUBLICANS fix this if you have any balls left.
This is an excellent example of corruption in not only this administration, but Congress members that may be involved as well as those that have condoned it. This all starts at the top and that is with Pinocchio Obama. Pinocchio is a traitor and needs to be impeached, prosecuted and sent to prison for breaking numerous laws. They can start with treason.
I thought it was against the law to retaliate against whistle blowers. But what do you do when it is the government who is retaliating? Of course as has been proven the Obama administration do not follow the law. If the police departments were allowed to do their jobs there would not have been riots last night and today outside of San Francisco. But Obama has wussified our police departments as well as any else in authority so now everything is so pc it make me want to puke. Can’t wait to see a man move into the white house so people to get back to acting like people instead of robots.
The moral values have left the left. This lady is to be commend for doing what she has done. If just the democrats had some integrity it’s sad what has happen the last 7 years.
I PRAY IT WAS ALL RECORDED !!!
Heads should roll for what has been done to this patriotic American, including Harry Reid!
This woman deserves a medal