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SABOTAGE: DHS Secretary Kevin McAleenan Accused of Leaking Info on ICE Raids, Putting His Own Agents in Danger

June 23, 2019, 7:58 am by Cassandra Fairbanks 453 Comments

Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan was accused of putting his own agents in danger by leaking details about the massive Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation to the media in order to sabotage it.

Multiple outlets are now reporting that sources within the agency believe McAleenan was behind the leaks about the now-postponed plan to deport approximately 2,000 illegal immigrants from ten US cities.

“Leaking the locations and details to stop the operation from happening not only harmed operational integrity, but it put the safety and well-being of his own officers in jeopardy,” said one senior administration official told Buzzfeed News. “The ICE mission is enforcing the nation’s laws and ensuring those who are unlawfully present in the country are removed if ordered by a judge; this will leave an un-erasable mark on his tenure.”The Washington Examiner also reported that they have multiple sources confirming the same thing.

“I know he has not approved of this operation for months,” one person familiar with those private conversations said during a phone call Saturday night. “The president wouldn’t leak that.

ICE wouldn’t leak that. There’s only a few people involved in these discussions … The only one who could have shared the details of those operations were Kevin.”

“That’s our belief,” a second official said when asked if McAleenan was behind the leak. “The secretary was not supportive from day one.”

According to the Examiner’s report, their sources told them that only a handful of people in the White House, ICE, and DHS knew the exact cities, dates and times for the raids.The report that allegedly caused the president to postpone the operation was published in the Washington Post by a reporter who traveled on a government plane down to the border on Wednesday with McAleenan. It contained information that McAleenan and few others would have been privy to.The Post also detailed McAleenan’s opposition to the operation.

“Leaking the locations and details to stop the operation from happening not only harmed operational integrity, but it put the safety and well-being of his own officers in jeopardy,” the third official wrote to the Examiner.

“That’s law enforcement sensitive information. You just don’t reveal that,” the second official said. “It gets people hyped up. It gets the NGOs activated, and then anyone wearing a jacket with the ICE name on it is really chastised. Cities are coming out saying, ‘Here’s how you can protect yourself against it.’”

And as reported earlier former ICE Director Tom Homan went off on McAleenan on FOX and Friends Weekend.

On Saturday morning former ICE Director Tom Homan went off on the government official who leaked the cities involved in the upcoming ICE raids.

Homan outed acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan for resisting the upcoming ICE raids and for leaking the timing and location to the press.

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Trump ordered the raid info leaked to help make his fake raids story more believable.

Trump knew from the beginning that the raids would never take place.

The raids are just a distraction from the amnesty that Trump, Kushner and the Democrats are quietly pushing thru.

Who really knows what happened? The DHS guy leaked or the raids were always a scam by Trump? If the DHS guy isn't fired this week as he should be, then the raids were a scam. He's not stupid and he obviously knew if he leaked, everybody in the administration would point the finget at him because as the article states, there were a small group of people involved in the planning of this raid. We will see. Now that the invaders THINK they are in the ALL CLEAR for at least 2 weeks, I bet most of them have returned to their addresses and locations where ICE has them located at. They should go out and nail them this week anyway!!!!!

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Report: DHS Sec. Accused of Leaking Trump's ICE Raid Now Tied to Obama, Hillary

By Benjamin Arie
Published June 25, 2019 at 12:38pm

Leaks and internal struggles have plagued the Trump administration since day one, and now it looks like yet another die-hard Democrat supporter may have been pulling strings in Washington to undermine the president.
On Saturday, the Washington Examiner reported that a key Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation intended to round up certain illegal aliens was called off after an insider allegedly passed confidential details of the operation to the media.
Two days before the operation was set to begin, outlets including The Washington Post announced it to the world, effectively eliminating any element of surprise.
“President Trump has directed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to conduct a mass roundup of migrant families that have received deportation orders, an operation that is likely to begin with predawn raids in major U.S. cities on Sunday,” The Post reported.
But that “roundup” never happened, and the reason may be a political coup. According to homeland security reporter and border expert Anna Giaritelli, fingers now point to a longtime Democrat ally as the “leaker” who tipped off the media and the law breakers.
“This week’s big leak about a major Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation was orchestrated by acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan in an effort to sabotage the raids before they were scheduled to take place, according to three current and two former senior administration officials,” Giaritelli wrote in the Examiner.
“[A]ll five officials who spoke with the Washington Examiner confirmed McAleenan’s decision to go rogue and stymie the operation was what prompted the White House to call off the 10-city operation,” the report continued.
It would make sense if McAleenan was the one who threw a wrench into the ICE mission. Government sources interviewed by Giaritelli allegedly said that the secretary had pushed back against the raids for months.
And McAleenan traveled to the border last week with Washington Post journalist Nick Miroff — the same source which published details of the planned raid.
If there was any question about McAleenan’s possible motivations, a follow-up story from the Examiner should clear it up.
Records show that the official suspected by insiders to be the leaker was a loyal backer of former President Barack Obama, while his wife was clearly a Hillary Clinton supporter.
“Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan, who was accused of sabotaging the Trump administration’s deportation operation because of a personal opposition to the plan, has given for years solely to Democratic causes,” wrote Giaritelli in the Examiner, citing federal records.
“He made 11 contributions from $100 to $600 totaling $3,000 to then-Sen. Barack Obama between November 2007 and November 2008,” the newspaper continued. “[H]is wife made three donations totaling $505 to Hillary for America in July 2016.”
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Now, donating to one candidate or another may not be a problem by itself, but it does raise red flags when combined with the growing number of Washington voices who believe McAleenan let his personal politics get in the way of his duty.
“He has proven his political leanings in his actions, including his campaign contributions,” Brandon Judd wrote in a scathing Fox News Op-Ed piece. Judd heads the National Border Patrol Council, essentially a union of 16,000 Border Patrol agents. “By definition, Kevin McAleenan should be considered anti-Trump,” he continued.
Judd believes that if McAleenan did leak ICE plans to the media, it was a serious dereliction of duty.
“McAleenan was inexcusably willing to put the public at risk and law enforcement officers in harm’s way in order to further his own agenda, an agenda which has not aligned with that of President Trump from the day he was appointed to his previous position as Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection,” the NBPC president wrote.
He’s right. Having personal views about a president is fine, but letting those views get in the way of an official’s job and the proper execution of America’s laws is unacceptable. It looks like the D.C. “swamp” still hasn’t been drained, and it’s time to start asking some hard questions.

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Acting Homeland Security chief denies leaking info on ICE raids: 'It's just not true'

Kevin McAleenan resigns as acting homeland security secretary


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