Question by I’m gonna start another riot: Is DHS a criminal enterprise?
Child abuse, human and drug smuggling, bribery, money laundering… These are just some of the crimes committed by employees at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), as highlighted in a report issued by the DHS’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) in May.
From October 1, 2008 to September 30, 2009, the OIG reviewed 16,777 complaints from which the Inspector opened 1,056 cases, closing just over 1,021 of them. Of those cases, 283 arrests were made, 248 indictments handed down and 241 convictions were ruled.
“Our work on those cases resulted in apprehension of persons with known links to terrorism, detection of immigration fraud, and arrests for alien and drug smuggling, contract fraud, and civil rights violations,” the report read. “The cases also resulted in over million in fines, restitutions, administrative cost savings, and recoveries.”
In his testimony before the Homeland Security Committee in March, Thomas Frost, the assistant inspector general for investigations at DHS, stated, “The DHS OIG has statutory authority and responsibility to conduct criminal investigations into allegations of employee misconduct within the DHS. We investigate 100% of all allegations of serious criminal misconduct involving DHS employees. We investigate all allegations of corruption of DHS employees related to the security of the nation’s borders including the smuggling of drugs, weapons, and people.
“The corruption activities of drug trafficking organizations are not limited to those employees such as customs inspectors and border patrol officers whose duties are posting and patrolling the physical border, but encompass almost every layer of the DHS border security strategy,” he continued.
“We have had investigations involving DHS employees who were posted away from the border but who were targeted for corruption because of their value in providing access to sensitive law enforcement information or their ability to convey immigration benefits or otherwise assist drug trafficking organizations in evading our enforcement efforts,” Frost added.
The report, which divided up the crimes based on which agency the employee who committed them was working for, held some shocking revelations. United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers were convicted of such crimes as alien and narcotic smuggling, bribery, providing fraudulent documents, sexual exploitation of a minor, credit card fraud and sending child pornography over the Web. Meanwhile, Citizen and Immigration Services (CIS) employees were convicted of identity theft and trafficking in counterfeit labels. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers (ICE) were convicted of money laundering, corruption, an overseas sexual exploitation of a child, smuggling drugs into prison as well as selling them on the street. One ICE officer was even caught on NBC’s “Operation Predator” and another was accused of bringing over 700 illegal aliens into the country. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officials were accused of forgery, drug smuggling and theft while a member of the Coast Guard (USCG) plead guilt to extortion. Numerous members of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) – government employees tasked with getting money to the people who need it most during disasters – were convicted on numerous charges of fraud.
Read the full findings of the report here.
http://www.gsnmagazine.com/node/20900?c=federal_agencies_legislative
Best answer:
Answer by THE GREATEST GODDESS JILL
It appears our own agency which is charged to protect us has become as corrupt as Mexico!
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