DHS Corruption Exposed - UPDATE

Competes well with the best of the Obama Administration's Prevaricators

This Post has been updated (10 May 2019) 

due to breaking news on this scandal

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Evidence released during the trial/conviction of Sonai Patel, DHS IT Manager, included the news she had stolen a data-base managing 150,000 internal investigations, including background investigations on 250,000 DHS employees].  Charles K. Edwards [then Inspector General] is accused of using that data in a contract proposal to his former employers.  

Also revealed are Edwards' efforts to undercut the effectiveness of the DHS (the) Director of USCIS [Citizenship and Immigration Services), Alejandro Mayorkas.

The unanswered question here is what data was passed over during the "telecommuting" between Edwards wife in India and Patel, and how much of that data was transferred to Chinese Intelligence.  Would that have included the numerous FOIA requests -- and data provided regarding on-going investigations regarding Illegals, Child Sex Trafficking, ATF files, Coast Guard intelligence, etc.

Finally, we are reminded of the fact that DHS then had 250,000 employees!
How is it we are short on Border Patrol Police.

OUR ORIGINAL POST APPEARS BELOW.
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Click here for related article [Washington Post (Carol D Leonnig)]

It appears there is a spark of journalistic integrity left at the Post.  The referenced article is a masterpiece of investigative journalism, and we trust Congress will begin reading the Post again for such stories rather than using it for litter box filler as they did while Katherine Weymouth controlled the editorial process.

This investigative story reveals corruption at the highest levels of the Department of Homeland Security [DHS], the federal agency charged with pulling all federal law enforcement and intelligence activities into one information sharing and enforcement basket [albeit a bureaucratic goat-rope] with a mere 240,000 employees -- most of whom cannot define their job description.

Charles K Edwards served as the acting Inspector General of DHS from 2011 - 13, but, instead of investigating unethical behavior, became the target of Senate investigators as a result of his own unethical behavior, which included joining the subjects of his investigations for drinks and dinners, and sharing with them confidential reports from whistle-blowers and his investigators.

Ultimately, he asked the targets of these investigations how he should handle the disclosures of their unethical and in some cases, illegal behavior -- after which he altered reports to Congress to the benefit of those being investigated.

Edwards also came under fire for
1) Requiring his staffers to drive him on personal errands
2) Using government personnel to help him write his PhD dissertation
3) Hiring his wife to work for his office -- and to telecommute from India for seven months
4) Retaliating against DHS whistle-blowers.

All these illicit activities occurred while Edwards was Mr obama's nominee for the permanent position of Inspector General.

Putting it mildly, Senator Ron Johnson [R-WI] advised:
"We found that Mr Edwards was a compromised Inspector General.  
Any report generated out of his office would be suspect."

Notably, Edwards resigned his position three days prior to his scheduled appearance before the Senate to respond to their inquiries into his activities.

The Senate bipartisan investigation was initiated following the scandal in Colombia in which Secret Service agents were compromised by hiring prostitutes and revealing sensitive information to them. "Whistle-blowers alleged Edwards ordered them to remove derogatory information implicating a White House staff member; more staff members came forward to allege deletions and delays in other reports."

Three DHS employees who questioned the deletions were put on Administrative Leave; among those was the General Counsel who was forced into another position after being placed on paid Administrative leave for EIGHT MONTHS!

DHS "declined" to provide the emails which related to those reports.
[Note to Senate:  Use a subpoena -- not a request!]

DHS General Counsel John Sandweg

At the request of a DHS official [then-DHS General Counsel John Sandweg], Edwards is alleged to have ordered changes to and delayed release of a report on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement [ICE] which disclosed complaints that DHS had misled Congress and the public about Secure Communities -- a new program to identify illegal immigrants which has come under considerable scrutiny and criticism.

Edwards repeatedly consulted with Sandweg, then DHS-Director Janet Napolitano's top political advisor and General Counsel, on how to respond to Congressional Committee questions.

One of Edwards' emails to Sandweg included this quote:


"I really need some legal help.  Please help me for the next four months."

[This is the equivalent of a criminal prosecutor asking the defendant for assistance on how to handle the criminal's prosecution.]

Sandweg, according to Fox News, came under Congressional criticism since he had "zero law enforcement experience."  He is a former criminal defense attorney whose clients included murderers, sex offenders, and pedophiles.
His clients included
  1) a man convicted of strangling his girlfriend in front of her 4-year-old child,
  2) an identity theft ring, violent felons who had violated their parole, and
  3) a man accused of multiple counts of sexual assault on a minor.
[This guy made the character of "Just Call Saul" look like a saint!]

Why, former Democratic Presidential nominee, John Edwards who was caught in a series of lies, would have been proud to have had Sandweg as his running mate.

You remember John Edwards.

Liz Edwards; died in 2010

He ran as a Democrat for President on the basis of good teeth, good hair, and the sympathy vote since his wife [Elizabeth Edwards] was dying of cancer; we learned during the campaign that he was cheating on his dying wife with Rielle Hunter [aka: Lisa Jo Druck],  who bore him a child.
 

But, we digress.

Now, Sandweg is a piece of work, but, hold on, there's still more to this story.

The Senate report noted that Charles Edwards conferred on a regular basis with not only Sandweg, but also with Janet Napolitiano's Chief of Staff, Noah Kroloff during the period he was investigating the Secret Service scandal.

Kroloff resigned his position with Napolitano, and is a Partner of Global Security and Intelligence Strategies [GSIS] -- a consulting and advisory firm.
-- Should we ask how many contracts GSIS has with DHS?
-- Would there be a conflict of interest there?
--  Is the Pope Catholic?

The Senate report also disclosed that DHS IG Charles Edwards reclassified a Transportation Security Administration [TSA] report critical of "imaging screening".

The classification was bumped up - inexplicably - from SECRET to TSC [TOP SECRET/SENSITIVE COMPARTMENTED INFORMATION] - an egregious breach of classification authority to prevent almost all but a few in Congress access to the report.

[TS/C is a classification restricted to only the most sensitive intelligence relating to highly technical or restricted methods and sources, and NEVER for a routine report on procedural effectiveness. The SCI access generally requires that an individual undergo a polygraph exam; access requires a lengthy procedure due to the sensitivity of the materials, meaning that only a few Senators and Congresspersons would be eligible for access. (Then-senator obama was never granted a security clearance at all due to the absence of legitimate documents in his personal history).]

Some of you may be uncertain as to the role of an Inspector General [IG].

In essence, the IG is a government [or military] watchdog whose mission is to ensure integrity within the organization.  The IG investigates using special agents/professional investigators and auditors to pursue allegations of wrong-doing, and is expected to provide reports to higher headquarters of his/her findings prior to or during investigations and possibly consequent criminal proceedings.  The President appoints IGs for HUD and the Agency for International Development; all the rest are appointed by the heads of the agencies they serve -- but are essentially approved by the President.

Notably, in this [OBAMA] Administration, most of the IG positions are vacant -- leaving little or no internal review process for whistle-blowers or corruption monitoring.  This vacuum could explain the extraordinary levels of corruption in government agencies in this Administration.

To set your mind at ease with respect to the reports of extraordinary corruption in the DHS, you'll be gratified to know that the new Inspector General is John Roth, whom the Senate confirmed last month [by a simple majority].  He responded to the Senate report of DHS corruption with the words:

"... this report contains valuable insights that my office will be taking into account 

as we move forward with our oversight mission."

Now, for you denizens of California [who gave the US Pelosi, Waters Boxer, and Feinstein], we want to remind you that Janet Napolitino, who headed the DHS during so much of this corruption, is now President of the University of California, and is routinely the subject of protests when she visits the various campuses [to be fair, in one instance at Berkeley, two students did launch a "counter-protest"]. In her new role, controlling your college kids' education, do you feel safer, and aren't you happy your tax dollars are paying her salary?

Did USG Hijack Flight MH-370?

See UPDATE re Malaysian Flight MH17 at the end of this blogpost.

Click here for related story [DCClothesline.com]

Who had reason to hijack Malaysian Flight MH-370?
Was it the US Government, possibly working with the Israeli Mossad as a false flag operation?

We, along with many other professional analysts, had concluded early on that Malaysian Flight MH-370 had been hijacked, but we weren't sure who was responsible.  Possibly Islamic extremists, linked to the jailed Malaysian opposition leader, whom the MH-370 pilot supported, and whose political rally the pilot had attended not long before he piloted Flight MH-370 into oblivion.  Would it seem logical to hijack an airliner to highlight Malaysian politics -- and trade the passengers for release of a political prisoner?

And, a number of former intelligence and military analysts from a variety of countries speculated it was a false flag hijacking with the objective of using the plane to create another false flag catastrophic incident such as 9/11; some speculated that the plane would be loaded with explosives and directed at a highly populated area, and then blamed on Iranian terrorists -- thus presenting the option to declare war on Iran.

And, that remains a workable projection
-- notably, Jonathon Pollard, the Israeli spy, is once again in the news as his release is being negotiated, perhaps as a trade-off to obtain Mossad's assistance in this hijacking.

But, still, what would be the rationale for this false-flag operation!

Buried in the Washington Post's weekend Health, Science & Environment section, we find a story calling for the modernization of tracking technology.

Just as 9/11 resulted in the creation of the Patriot Act and the National Defense Authorization Act, and the creation of the Department of Homeland Security [with 240,000 employees and tens of thousands of contractors] to make us secure from "terrorists", will we now have legislation, or an Executive Order, which controls and monitors every airplane flight, private and commercial, in the world?

Is that what this is all about?

Notably, aviation safety advocates call for

1) Tamperproof equipment that would stream data in real time to satellites and relay a plane's position.

2)  Chris McLaughlin, SVP of Inmarsat, which tracked the flight path of MH-370) advises:
"As a ticket-payer, wouldn't you like to know that the authorities know where your plane is at all times?" [Instituting such a process would net Inmarsat as much as $3 Billion per year.]

3)  Mary Schiavo, formerly of the Federal Aviation Administration, would like
     "full Black Box data streamed to ground locations during flight."
     She advised such information would have "helped in 9/11"
     a)  We're not sure how it would have helped;
          [perhaps creating a new federal agency like DHS to track all airliners taking off from Boston?]
     b)  Star Navigation Systems Group markets such technology at $50,000 per plane, and $10 per
          hour to track each plane (if installed, it would cost the airline industry $3 Billion per year).
          Think in terms of the airline industry which cuts costs by denying you a bag of peanuts on
          your flight.

4)  But, Sean Cassidy [Alaska Airlines pilot and national safety coordinator for the
      Airline Pilots Association, Intl, advised that his
     "... organization is wary of such a sweeping change in industry practice."
     He notes rhetorically [as do we]
     a)  "How is the data being used?
     b)  "How is it being protected? and,
     c)  "How is it really driving up the safety case?
     d)  "If this is such an incredibly, exceedingly rare event [known in the industry as a "one-off"], 
           ... it's a bit premature to begin discussing why way we would transmit this data until we
           understand if that would have made much of a difference in how this flight [ML370] 
           ended up."

5)  The UN's International Civil Aviation Organization studied the overall problems and concluded that it would be a good idea to boost the battery power of the Black Boxes to increase the strength of the beacon signals.  [Hmm, how much did they spend to reach that conclusion?]

6)  As we've noted before, NASA boasts it can track a meteor the size of a grapefruit a million miles out; why can't our satellite systems - civil as well as intelligence, track a metallic object that is nearly 250 feet long.  There are hundreds of imagery satellites hovering over Earth, to include Google Earth relays, which can track an object under three feet in diameter.

And yet, our government tells us they can't find a 250 foot steel tube that weighs over 300 tons?

But, we've digressed.
We asked in our title:
Did the USG hijack Flight MH-370?

And we tend to agree with professional analysts who believe this may be the case since precedents have now been established using 9/11 to dissolve the Bill of Rights and to establish DHS with its 240,000 employees, amplified by the expansion of police-state power engendered in the highly questionable "terrorist bomb attack" in Boston, and the "lone gunman" attacks in Aurora, Newtown and the DC Navy Yard which were used as the basis for mandatory registration of personal firearms and the outlawing of ownership of "automatic/assault weapons" by private citizens.

So, imagine our surprise at the announcement that IBM software engineer, Philip Wood, listed as passenger #171 on the MH-370 manifest, had successfully transmitted a voice/text message via his iPhone 5, along with a black/obscured photo:

Philip Wood

"I have been held hostage by unknown military personal [sic] after my flight was hijacked (blindfolded).  

[Voice to data would have converted personnel to "personal", indicating he spoke into his phone rather than typing his text.]
"I work for IBM and I have managed to hide my cellphone in my ass during the hijack. I have been separated from the rest of the passengers and I am in a cell.  

"My name is Philip Wood.  I think I have been drugged as well and cannot think clearly."

Diego Garcia       [Global Security]

The photo Wood took, though black [it was apparently taken in an unlit cell] carries a digital Exif signature and GPS coordinates [common to digital photographs taken with your cell phone], which placed his cell phone, when the photo was taken, within three (3) miles of Diego Garcia, a US Navy base with extremely limited access.  

Now, if we are to believe other "truthers" [those with tin-foil caps], Diego Garcia was also the destination of the passengers who supposedly died in the crash of American Airlines Flights 11 and 77, United Airlines Flights 175 and 93.

B-21 Stealth Bomber

Interestingly, a small Texas company [Freescale Semiconductor, Inc -a Motorola spinoff) 

was sending 20 tech employees to China on this flight.  Freescale manufactured high performance processors for use in 7th Generation video game consoles and in embedded applications for satellites - and also the Curiosity and Perseverance rovers on Mars.  

Freescale PowerPC CPUs run high end personal computers. 

 There were also rumors that Freescale was developing a stealth technology beyond that on today's B2 stealth bomber. 

[Ed Update (Jan 2022): Oddly, both Russia and China now have aircraft remarkable similar to the B-21.]

[ED UPDATE: (Sep 2022): There was a recent report that a Diego Garcia publicity photo of a barber shop patron was identified as a MH370 passenger - causing some outrage in Malaysia.] 

DG Aircraft support facilities abound

We are told that Diego Garcia is one of the most closely guarded military bases in the world, and is fully equipped with radar and sophisticated surveillance equipment,

plus a full complement of US Navy combat vessels, plus an airfield runway [Two+ miles long (12,003 feet)] capable of accommodating the landing and subsequent takeoff of a commercial aircraft the size of MH-370. 

[There are multiple B-52s based there, as well as B-1s and B2s which are fairly sizable bombers (larger than commercial airliners). 

Rumors include stories of Diego Garcia being the site for covert interrogations of enemies of the US, but, we can't confirm such notions. 

If this hypothesis withstands scrutiny, are the passengers still alive?

Or, would they be summarily executed to avoid disclosure and potential embarrassment.

China, we've heard via the internet, is already investigating Diego Garcia as the possible secret destination of MH-370, and will likely not be terribly receptive to such a hijacking, nor will it be amused by USG backpedalling since it will have already intercepted communications involving US complicity.  China's intelligence satellites would likely have tracked the entire flight of MH-370 from the point it was hijacked until it landed -- perhaps in Diego Garcia.

We've also seen reports of replicas of MH-370 which would be crashed into the sea to provide wreckage for the Media to swoon over, and spend weeks reporting on in the hopes some survivors might be found.  If bodies were found, it might be worthwhile to perform autopsies to see how and when these passengers were killed.

It seems the US Government is anxious to engage in another military action, what with the drawdown of troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, and North Korea just doesn't have the resources to sustain a military conflict in excess of 30 minutes.

So, it's been theorized that a war with Iran could be initiated by using MH-370 as a False Flag Iranian attack vehicle on, say, a NATO city or military base.  The outrage might be as successful as the 9/11 attacks were in launching US attacks on the Middle East and the ethereal, trillion dollar hunt for Osama bin Laden [or, someone who looked like him].

The down side of that scenario would be a highly annoyed China, which would not be amused by the hijacking, and possible execution of a large number of its citizens by the USG.  We've already been involved in a land war with China, and continue to rue that event since we did not fare well at all.

But, if nothing else, this hijacking has certainly served to divert world attention from the Russian invasion of Crimea; but, that is a story for another blogpost.

UPDATE: 
MH17 "SHOT DOWN"
We now have a crashed Malaysian airliner with a few bodies, but, oddly no visible seats or major components of the plane. 

We speculated earlier that MH-370 has been parked in a hanger in Diego Garcia, while its passengers resided in dark prison cells [to include the IBM engineer who was able to send out a GPS-traceable image].

Following up on our earlier conspiracy theory -- outlined above -- we concluded that MH370 was hijacked and stored to be used as the basis for another international crisis.  And, as luck would have it, our Leader From Behind has been getting slammed from all quarters as all the scandals are building a prison wall around him [well, he's still on the golf course, so he's still free].  But, the Democrats are scrambling off the Obama boat and hoping they'll be reelected in spite of being tied to him.  And the Senate appears to be turning Red with the November election; that of course opens the door for the House to initiate Impeachment proceedings, which will take a couple of months to process and be ready for the trial on 21 January, 2015.

Justified US entering WWI

So, what better time to create the distraction of an international crisis than with an act of war which is almost as heinous as the Sinking of the Lusitania -- which drew the United States into World War I.

By golly, if we rattle sabers with the Russkies, our Leader from Behind can distract American voters from all the White House scandals, and he may not have to declare Martial Law to displace the November elections after all.

An alternate theory appearing on the FB site "Finding Philip Wood" accuses Israel of having hijacked MH370 to use as a false flag incident at some point in the future.

Coincidentally, the shoot-down of MH17 comes at the beginning of Ramadan, and, oddly enough, in time to distract the world from the Israeli "defensive" act of bombing, invading, and bulldozing Gaza in retaliation for Hamas firing rockets into Israel.  The accusation is that Israeli agents are firing the rockets from Gaza, disguised as Hamas.  And much of Europe, not dominated by a tightly controlled press as in the US, is protesting vehemently against Israel's actions in Gaza, yet, we see little reference to that in the US.

Previous Posts on MH-370

1) https://spookdblog.blogspot.com/2014/03/wheres-waldo.html

2) https://spookdblog.blogspot.com/2014/03/malaysian-plane-hijacked.html

3) https://spookdblog.blogspot.com/2014/03/missing-airliner-mystery.html

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