The whistleblower from the Department of Homeland Security during the Obama Administration was found dead near his vehicle outside of Sacramento Friday morning.
Authorities found 66-year old Philip Haney dead by a single gunshot wound. Haney was known for exposing President Obama’s orders to scrub the records of Muslims with terrorist ties.
Sheriff and coroner Martin A. Ryan of the Amador County Sheriff’s Office said Haney “appeared to have suffered a single, self-inflicted gunshot wound.”1 He shared the preliminary details of the case:
“On February 21, 2020 at approximately 1012 hours, deputies and detectives responded to the area of Highway 124 and Highway 16 in Plymouth to the report of a male subject on the ground with a gunshot wound.”
“Upon their arrival, they located and identified 66-year-old Philip Haney, who was deceased and appeared to have suffered a single, self-inflicted gunshot wound. A firearm was located next to Haney and his vehicle. This investigation is active and ongoing. No further details will be released at this time.”1
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Haney, who was engaged to be married, was recently in contact with DHS officials about a possible return to the agency, according to the Washington Examiner.
Haney worked for DHS for about fifteen years. In a February 2016 article in The Hill, Haney insisted Obama had thrown the U.S. intelligence community “under the bus”1 for failing to “connect the dots”1 after a Nigerian Muslim terror suspect was linked to a failed terror plot on Christmas Day in 2009. He wrote:
“Most Americans were unaware of the enormous damage to morale at the Department of Homeland Security, where I worked, his condemnation caused,” Haney wrote, referring to Obama. “His words infuriated many of us because we knew his administration had been engaged in a bureaucratic effort to destroy the raw material — the actual intelligence we had collected for years, and erase those dots. The dots constitute the intelligence needed to keep Americans safe, and the Obama administration was ordering they be wiped away.”1
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In June 2016, Haney testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, where he claimed that DHS, under the Obama era, had ordered him to delete hundreds of files about reputed associates of Islamic terrorist groups. The Examiner reported that Haney stated many of attacks in the U.S. could have been stopped if some of the files had not been deleted.
