This is a MUST READ.
Excerpts from pages 4 and 5.
"The same senior leaders who absolutely refused to allow OSI to obtain the necessary resources to fulfill its mission also refused, time and time again, to act when confronted with major national security vulnerabilities my team and I identified in the immigration process
Each of the security breaches described below was brought immediately to the attention oftop-level officials at USCIS. These breaches compromise virtually every part of theimmigration system, leaving vulnerabilities that have been and likely
are being exploited by enemies of the United States. Despite the fact that each identified threat has significant security implications, USCIS leadership consistently failed—or refused—to correct them. Instead, top officials chose to cover them up, to dismiss them, and/or to target theemployees who identified them, even when the solution was both obvious and feasible.
As a former police chief and national security specialist, I do not make these charges lightly. Over the past eight months, I have provided, through my attorney, thousands ofpages of unclassified documents, including most of those attached to this statement, to Members of this Subcommittee and other Members of Congress. More recently, I have provided the same documents to the FBI, the GAO, and the DHS Office of Inspector General. On three separate occasions, I offered to provide Director Gonzalez a full set of these documents, but on each occasion, he declined my offer.
These documents, and others of which I have personal knowledge but am not at liberty to release or to discuss in an open forum, prove not only the existence of the national securityvulnerabilities I will discuss today, but also the fact that senior government officials are awareof the vulnerabilities and have chosen to ignore them. More troubling is the fact that thes same officials actually ordered me to ignore national security vulnerabilities I identified, even though my job was to address them. When I refused these orders, I was subjected to retaliation
... government officials are aware of the vulnerabilities and have chosen to ignore them"
http://wwwa.house.gov/international_.../max040606.pdf
The above link is the online version of the testimony given by Michael Maxwell, the (Former) Director, USCIS Office of Security and Investigations (OSI) of the US Department of Homeland Security. There has been about zero mainstream media coverage of this testimony. ZERO.
That is about to change, so help me God.
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