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“ Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety”. Benjamin Franklin
Department of Homeland Security: Terror Within
by
Mauricio Guerios
The D-Day finally had arrived – today the targets would be taken down. The Special Response Team had been training for this day for weeks. Washington approved the raid and anxiously awaited the outcome. The Team spent over a year preparing for this moment: they relentlessly followed their targets, meticulously intercepted their communications and reviewed every detail of their doctor’s visits.
A multi-agency Task force tirelessly labored day and night, following, wiretapping, photographing and investigating the targets. The Team had quietly questioned anyone and everyone who crossed paths with the targets, obtaining statements from City Councilmen and forming unlikely alliances with infamous mobsters. In a War on Terror, nothing could be left to chance.
The paramilitary raid would be conducted on a remote five-acre desert compound, located one hundred and sixty miles away from the Team’s base of operation. Team members have been converging on the location, arriving in countless vehicles and flying into nearby airports with the Air and Marine Unit. Some of the Team members have been orbiting the target in their vehicles since the night before the raid. They familiarized themselves with every detail of the area, having conducted hundreds of hours of land and aerial surveillance. The Air and Marine Unit had provided excellent aerial shots, while teams of Agents roamed and studied the surroundings of the target site for hours on any given date.
The Team reviewed detailed reports, photographs and descriptions, carefully following special warnings and trying to prepare for anything unpredictable the targets could do. Training sessions and organized meetings were held to discuss the best tactical approach, compiling classified reports and assessments, preparing “Risk Analysis for Tactical Operations” and finalizing the “Operational Plan”. On the night before the raid, the team leader and his partner watched the shadows moving within the target compound through their night vision binoculars from their vehicle, stationed on a road nearby. Suddenly, a bright flash of light from an unknown source exposed the vehicle on the dark road. The team leader and his partner stared into the surrounding darkness, trying to identify the source of the blinding light, which suddenly appeared and immediately disappeared. The source of the mysterious light would not be uncovered until years after the raid.
TO READ UNREDACTED REPORTS OF SURVEILLANCE AND INVESTIGATION, SEE PHOTOGRAPHS OF SURVEILLANCE BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY AND READ THE FULL ACCOUNT OF THE RAID, READ THE UPCOMING BOOK: “DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY: TERROR WITHIN. The Truth Is No Longer A Secret”.
As in any Blitzkrieg, surprise penetration would ensure the ultimate success of the operation. An executive decision was made for the assault team to deploy during the hovering Blackhawk attack helicopter touchdown, descending on the target location from the sky into scorching 114 degree desert heat. The targets would be completely unprepared for what was about to befall them, therefore unable to react swiftly enough to the Team’s offensive advancement.
The Team’s swift and decisive victory seemed imminent. The menacing Blackhawk helicopter would maneuver and hover low to the ground above the target location, stirring up dirt and sand. The team’s simultaneous ground attack was sure to overwhelm and panic the targets. All roads out of the compound were blocked by the land perimeter teams.
The might and magnitude of the Team’s rapid advancement was guaranteed to paralyze the targets’ decision making and implementation process. Moving faster than enemy forces, the Team would exploit the weaknesses of the small target team, acting before opposition had a chance to formulate a response. The targets would be either promptly captured or swiftly destroyed.
The Team relied on the Blackhawk helicopter to ensure the success of their mission. Blackhawk helicopters are primarily used as a troop carrier, logistical support, command-and-control, electronic warfare and other high-tech attack missions and cost $8.6 million dollars per unit. The Blackhawk’s maximum endurance of only 2 hours and 18 minutes flight time necessitated special arrangements, refueling and concealment of the Blackhawk at a local airport until the Team Leader called for the beginning of the aerial assault.
T he high costs and dangers of flying a Blackhawk to their destination were superseded by the end result. The Team leader would spare no expense to ensure the success of this operation. He was ready to risk it all by having the Blackhawk maneuver and land dangerously close to electrical wires, populated and residential dwellings. Collateral damage was not considered to be considered, given the magnitude of this operation.
Armed with battering rams, the Team was ready to break down the doors and engage whatever was waiting for them inside , to subdue the occupants and capture the elusive terrorists. Simultaneously, perimeter teams would secure the location by surrounding it in numerous unmarked cars.
Having been prepared by the team leader to expect resistance, ready for a firefight, the Team worked out a medical evacuation plan, loaded up medical equipment and requested presence of tactical EMT’s. The Team summoned friendly local authorities to stand by, in case their assistance was necessary. The Blackhawk would continue hovering and maneuvering close to the ground, to quickly scare and chase away any curious bystanders or potential witnesses. The perimeter team would hide behind the trees, fully armed and ready for action. Other armed agents would circle the target in their unmarked vehicles, ready to return fire.
TO SEE THE UNEDITED VIDEO OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY’S BLACKHAWK HELICOPTER RAID, VISIT THE WEBSITE AND READ TRADE PUBLICATION FOR THE FUTURE ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR THE DATES OF THE UPCOMING RELEASE OF THE DOCUMENTARY FILM: “DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY: TERROR WITHIN. The Truth Is No Longer A Secret”.
The storm and flash floods on the night before the raid did not deter the Team from continuing with their mission. As the Blackhawk lifted off for the assignment on the morning of August 10, 2005 , the leader of the raid was determined to carry out his plan, regardless of what he and his team might encounter. To him, The War On Terror was personal. At least, that was the attempted justification for such an unprecedented expense of manpower and resources, while in reality it had nothing to do with fighting terrorists. To the contrary, the Patriot Act was being used to punish heroic acts of true American patriots.
While the para-military operation was about to be carried out at the Davis ’ residence, the targets of this attack were having a quiet meeting in Santa Monica , California , arranged by their Agent. Producer/Director BJ Davis and Screenwriter, former Angelina Jolie’s stunt double Julia Davis are a Hollywood producing power team and a married couple.
TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE FAMILY’S PERSECUTION FOR JULA’S REFUSAL TO JOIN COMSOMOL (Communist Union of the Youth), SEE RELATED DOCUMENTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS, READ THE UPCOMING BOOK: “DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY: TERROR WITHIN. The Truth Is No Longer A Secret”.
Julia inherited her parents’ independent streak and intelligence and, much like them, studied for a degree in engineering. Julia’s parents encouraged her interests in music, sports and languages. Julia received formal training as a classical pianist since she was six years old, practiced figure skating since the age of eight and began to study Spanish language as a ten-year old, all the while earning the highest academic achievements and winning numerous athletic events at her school.
While Julia was studying for her Masters Degree in Avionics and Spacecraft Engineering at the National Technical University of Ukraine, she received a $5.00 dollar a month stipend. To earn extra money, Julia and her mother worked at the film studios across the street from Julia’s University. On the first day of filming on the set of a feature film “Amerikanski Blues” BJ Davis saw Julia walk by – and never wanted to see her walk away.
BJ and Julia did not speak each other’s languages and had to be accompanied by an interpreter during their first date. Never one to bow down to circumstances, Julia bought a dictionary and started learning English to communicate with BJ. It was a whirlwind romance and shortly thereafter BJ proposed. BJ and Julia soon married thereafter in Kiev , Ukraine . BJ waited for Julia to complete her Masters’ Degree studies and flew in to attend her graduation ceremony. After receiving her diploma, Julia joined her husband in the United States . She left Eastern Europe for a Hollywood life of glitz, glamour and excitement, which her husband personified.
BJ began his film career as a stuntman, working with Hollywood ’s top directors like Clint Eastwood, Oliver Stone, and Brian DePalma and doubled Academy Award winning stars like Tom Hanks, Jack Nicholson, Tommy Lee Jones and Michael Caine. BJ still has two standing world records for an aerial neck suspension and high fall from a helicopter into the ocean from the height of 180 feet. This and other spectacular stunts earned BJ his induction into the Stuntman Hall of Fame where film icons John Wayne and Kirk Douglas are honorary members. BJ continued to advance in his film career, moving on to positions of Stunt Coordinator for action films and the “Star Trek” franchise on television, to Second Unit Director and finally to Director and Producer.
After moving to the United States , Julia wanted to spend as much time as possible with her husband and began working in the film industry, instead of pursuing a career in engineering. Julia worked as the stunt double for Academy Award winning actress Angelina Jolie in “Playing God” and began to write screenplays. At a closer look, the Hollywood life was not as glamorous as it seemed from afar.
In the mean time, Julia’s analytical, meticulous nature and her desire to contribute to society led her to explore a career in law enforcement. Julia dreamt of becoming a Special Agent with the FBI – an ambitious goal for a Ukrainian immigrant from the former Soviet Union .
In April, 2001 Julia successfully completed the Phase I battery of tests in an employment process to become a Special Agent with the FBI. Over the next several years Julia took additional tests and pursued additional law enforcement job opportunities, passing every test she took. Julia’s linguistic abilities and great education made her a highly desirable candidate for federal employment.
Due to the changing world after the 9/11 attacks, Julia took the initiative to take classes in Farsi (Persian) language at the Cal-State, Northridge and began studying for a Criminal Justice Degree to make herself even more of an asset as an applicant for law enforcement employment opportunities. Julia scored a perfect 100% score on the INS entrance exam and was immediately offered a job as an Immigration Officer. She reported to the Federal Law Enforcement Training Academy in Glynco , Georgia on June 11, 2002 and completed her training with honors and a certificate of “Outstanding Achievement” as a Linguist.
Julia’s first assignment as the Immigration and Naturalization Inspector was a position at the San Ysidro Port of Entry, the country’s largest and busiest port of entry land border crossing. Julia loved her new job and the fact that she would be able to put her linguistic abilities to good use by proudly serving her country.
The former immigrant thoroughly enjoyed her new job of inspecting applicants for admission into the United States . While the job may have been considered by some to be quite unglamorous, Julia loved every minute of it. She thrived on learning laws, procedures and investigative techniques. Julia thoroughly enjoyed a daily challenge of people-reading, accompanied by undeniable satisfaction of fighting crime and solving cases. As a true patriot and a dedicated federal officer, Julia paid especial attention to the processing of entrants from Special Interest Countries (SIC), countries designated by the Attorney General to have alleged ties to terrorism, such as Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Pakistan, Syria and others.
Julia’s hard work and determination earned her an outstanding rating and an appointment to the elite Port Enforcement Team as a Deferred Prosecution Officer, handling removals, other than Mexican case processing, deferred prosecutions, asylum and other complicated cases.
Julia’s enthusiasm and professional satisfaction with her new law enforcement career turned to fear and anger when one of her Senior Supervisors at work, Kevin Crusilla, began to make inappropriate advances towards her. While harassing Julia, Crusilla continually reminded her that she was a probationary employee and during her first year of employment could be easily terminated at any time at management’s discretion. At first she tried to quietly resolve the issue by asking other Supervisors and Port Directors to intervene, without filing a formal complaint. Julia had no idea that Crusilla was part of the “good ole boy” network and a close personal friend with the upper management representatives, on whose help Julia naively counted relied on to make the harassment stop, including Port Director William “Bruce” Ward, Assistant Port Director Orlando Chambers and Port Director Oscar Preciado.
Although Port managers knew that Crusilla had made unwanted sexual advances to other women in the past, as Port Directors and Crusilla’s best friends, they never took any action against him and looked the other way. Officers at the port knew that the system would retaliate against anyone reporting misconduct by the management. Julia had no idea that the management was in a habit of attacking victims who dared to complain, instead of disciplining perpetrators. She would later discover that a victim of stalking, battery and harassment was subject to even greater danger by seeking protection from the agency.
The pervasive sexual harassment and the added stress of a realization that the management wasn’t doing anything to help her became physically and psychologically taxing. Julia’s doctors constantly recommended she find another job, for the sake of her health and well-being. Julia still hoped that someone would help protect her, giving her back the gift of enjoying her job at the Port in a workplace free of harassment. In response to Julia’s inquiry, Port Director Bruce Ward wrote an e-mail, claiming that he personally requested an OIG investigation of Crusilla’s harassment and stalking. Months had passed, but no one conducted an investigation.
Finally, afraid for her safety and becoming more and more convinced that Ward lied to her, Julia sent her own request for an investigation to the office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) which handles internal affairs (the Office of Professional Responsibility- OPR) for the agency. Until much later, Julia didn’t know that ICE/OPR Agent Jeffrey J. Deal received Julia’s request for investigation, which he immediately closed with a notation: “no action necessary”. Deal later stated during his sworn deposition that sexual harassment, battery and stalking does not rise to the criminal level and therefore did not warrant any action by the Office of Professional Responsibility.
Much as the Port management’s failure to act on Julia’s complaint, the actual reason why Deal immediately closed the case was also very personal. Deal’s supervisor, Herbert Kaufer, was married to Lauren Kaufer – an administrative Labor Employee Relations unit, which acted on directives from Port Director Bruce Ward and Director of Field Operations Adele Fasano. By making her requests for investigation Julia became the target for the management’s retaliation. Instead of investigating and disciplining the harasser, the Department of Homeland Security would throw unprecedented resources and manpower to punish Julia for daring to stand up for her rights. Although back in 2003 Julia didn’t know Agent Jeffrey Deal even existed, he became attached to Julia as an invisible barnacle, his name prominently embedded into all of Julia’s dealings with the Agency from that point on.
In the mean time, the harassment and stalking continued and escalated. Colleagues were concerned for Julia’s safety and told her to start wearing a bulletproof vest because Crusilla was an expert marksman and an unstable Vietnam veteran, whose nickname at the Port was “Rambo”. Julia wrote her superiors, “he is and has become a terrifying nightmare beyond my immediate job extending to my home and family.” Still, there was no investigation.
In desperation, on her own, Julia filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on May 10, 2003 . Since the Department of Homeland Security was not taking any action to stop the harassment and to protect Julia from Crusilla’s harassment and stalking, she petitioned for and was granted first a temporary and then a permanent restraining order against Crusilla with the California Superior Court in Chula Vista , CA .
Remarkably, Assistant Port Director Orlando Chambers who turned out to be Crusilla’s friend for fifteen years, submitted a letter as a Port Director, on the Department of Homeland Security’s letterhead in support of Crusilla to the court, attempting to prevent Julia from obtaining a Restraining Order against Crusilla. This blatant act of unlawful badge-flashing warranted immediate termination, according to the Agency’s regulations. Chambers was never investigated or disciplined for these or other unlawful actions.
Appalled and disgusted by the Port management’s obvious cover-up and overt support of Crusilla, Julia realized that the Agency officials never intended to do anything to protect her or to investigate Crusilla. Julia felt alone and betrayed. Having not been contacted by the OIG after Ward’s written claims to have requested an investigation, Julia filed a complaint with the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) herself. Finally, later that summer, OIG investigator Richard Jackson began investigating Julia’s complaint. When it came time to interview Crusilla, after serving him with the notice of investigation, Jackson could not find Crusilla either at work or at home. Crusilla went AWOL. In violation of the Agency’s regulations, which would warrant his immediate termination, Crusilla refused to cooperate with the official investigation, hid from the OIG Investigator and immediately submitted his retirement request to none other than his old friend, Port Director William “Bruce” Ward.
OIG investigator Jackson complained to Ward, Director of Field Operations Adele Fasano and other Agency’s officials of Crusilla’s non-compliance, requesting their assistance in forcing him to appear for an interview. While the OIG was desperately seeking Crusilla, William “Bruce” Ward covertly signed his retirement application within one hour after receiving Crusilla’s faxed request. Crusilla’s good-ole-boy network saved him yet again. Crusilla was allowed to quickly retire with full pension and benefits on October 18, 2003 , without any penalty or disciplinary action.
But Port management didn’t stop there. Happy they could help their old pal, Port management threw a retirement party for Crusilla, complete with hot dogs and flyers about the big event posted on all bulletin boards at the port. Julia could not believe her eyes. She complained and made inquiries to Ward, Chambers, Fasano and even DHS Director Tom Ridge . Again, she was ignored.
In November, 2003 OIG Agent Jackson completed his investigation and substantiated allegations of sexual harassment against Crusilla, as reported by Julia. Jackson submitted his report of investigation to the head of his department, who approved and submitted it to the Director of Field Operations for San Diego District, Adele Fasano. While Julia continued to make inquiries as to the investigation’s outcome, Fasano hid the OIG report and did not respond to Julia’s inquiries.
Crusilla’s retirement and OIG’s findings in Julia’s favor marked only the beginning of her troubles with the management. Agency managers were now determined to retaliate against Julia more than ever. They were prepared to go further than any rational person could have possibly imagined.
In spite of harassment and retaliation she was facing, Julia continued to excel in her job. She thrived on ironing out any wrinkles created by the creation of the new Department of Homeland Security, taking the initiative to write guidelines and instructions, creating manuals for others as requested by her Supervisors. In the difficult transition period for the newly-created agency, Julia was the first Immigration officer to make a narcotic seizure within the new Department of Homeland Security, setting the precedent and the procedures for others to follow.
Julia received Outstanding performance evaluations, was praised by her immediate Supervisors and promoted to the Port Enforcement Team (PET), an elite unit that processed the more complex cases such as people seeking asylum, Other Than Mexican cases, deferred prosecutions, cases of unverified citizenship and especially, because of the new War on Terror, processing of applicants for admission from Special Interest Countries (SIC).
Julia was not the type to overlook problems with the system – she actively came up with solutions and worked hard to make things better. Throughout her tenure at the port, Julia pointed out deficiencies and immediately sought, suggested and implemented ways of improving the brand new agency. Not everyone was impressed with Julia’s hard work and determination, as the Port management was determined to destroy Julia for initiating her complaint against Crusilla.
After the OIG substantiated Julia’s allegations, Port Director Ward reassigned the PET Team Supervisor, appointing Susan Boutwell as Julia’s new boss. During her first several weeks on a job, Boutwell arrived to work in a full-head helmet, girdle and mummy-like wraps showing through her uniform. While looking much like the Michelin man, squeezed into an extra-small uniform, Boutwell boasted to her new employees of having just undergone numerous plastic surgeries in Mexico . Boutwell was unfriendly to Julia, who thought at first that Boutwell was moody because of her recent operations. Unfortunately, medication-induced crankiness was not the cause of Boutwell’s discontent, as Boutwell was assigned by Port Directors Ward and Chambers to start a campaign of forcing Julia out of her job. It was becoming abundantly clear that management wanted to force Julia to leave.
Julia did her best to handle the pressure, although the situation was becoming increasingly dangerous. Supervisor Boutwell began to assign Julia sick and contagious subjects to interview, without telling her they were ill. Subjects are normally processed through the intake area, where their contagious diseases and illnesses are identified and recorded on a warning cover sheet, as applicable.
Boutwell removed warning cover sheets which advised an Officer to wear a mask and gloves because the subjects had dangerous communicable diseases. Since these warning sheets were removed, Julia wouldn’t learn that her interviewees were ill with contagious diseases like HIV and TB until well into the interview. By then it was too late. Soon Julia contracted TB from the unprotected exposure. In one of her subsequent written statements Boutwell wrote that Julia took leave for TB which, Boutwell proudly stated: “I was responsible for her catching it”.
In 2004 Julia took sick leave without pay because of the symptoms of the disease – fevers, coughs, fatigue, nausea, difficulty breathing – and her reaction to the treatments. Port Directors Bruce Ward and Oscar Preciado threatened in writing to terminate Julia for excessive sick leave even though the Port management had caused her to get sick.
In the mean time, hardships at work only strengthened Julia and BJ’s relationship. BJ continued to work as Producer and Director in the film industry. He was now interested in developing, financing, producing and directing a film written by Julia. In the late 1990’s Julia had written a comedy entitled “Forget About It”, based on the same appeal as the wildly successful “Grumpy Old Men”. The pre-production on “Forget About It” was going well. Always a self-starter, BJ had lined up Academy Award Nominees Burt Reynolds, Robert Loggia, Charles Durning and Raquel Welch.
When BJ was ready to begin shooting in Mesa , Arizona in February, 2004, he was very ill. His health seemed to be rapidly deteriorating. BJ desperately needed Julia’s help to help him get through the difficult shoot. In the film industry, Producers and Directors are not allowed to get sick – there are hundreds of hopefuls ready and willing to take their place. Julia took leave without pay under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) to take care of BJ and help him get through the filming, day by day. As a bondable, bankable Producer and Director BJ couldn’t let anyone know about his illness – otherwise, he might never work again.
The filming started and things were shaping up just as they would on any film set, anywhere in the world: actors were acting up, Producers were trying to make something out of nothing, film set romances were budding, money kept running out but always returned in time for the set call.
TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE FILMING OF “FORGET ABOUT IT”, SEE BEHIND THE SCENES VIDEOS AND PHOTOGRAPHS, READ JUICY TIDBITS ABOUT THE FILM’S STARS AND ACTORS, READ THE UPCOMING BOOK: “DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY: TERROR WITHIN. The Truth Is No Longer A Secret” AND WATCH THE UPCOMING DOCUMENTARY FILM.
One day, several suspicious-looking strangers appeared on the set, making cast and crew feel uneasy. One of the guests was a typical East Coast tough guy in a black leather coat, who looked like he was trying to get cast in the “Sopranos”. His name was Anthony Tarantola and he was the nephew of organized crime figure, Salvatore “Bill” Bonanno, whose latest aspiration was to become a Hollywood Producer. Right behind Tarantola towered his elegantly-dressed Uncle Bill. They were accompanied by an unidentified Bonanno family’s soldier. Paloma was fluttering around the group, obviously, aspiring to impress them. When BJ called him over to remind him that this was a closed film set, Paloma give him the bad news: these folks did not intend to leave – not unless they were leaving with a piece of the film. Uncle Bill also wanted to play a part of a Godfather in “Forget About It”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvatore_Bonanno http://www.carpenoctem.tv/mafia/bonb.html
http://www.bookrags.com/Frank_Nitti http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/excerpts/exhorcla.html http://www.nlpc.org/artindx.asp
The scenario unraveled like a bad B-movie and BJ felt like he was playing one of leads in this travesty. The Union picketers would not leave until BJ agreed to a compromise. Unwilling to allow a known organized crime leader Salvatore “Bill” Bonanno to star in a film starring legitimate screen legends, Burt Reynolds, Raquel Welch, Robert Loggia and Charles Durning, in a forced trade-off, he reluctantly agreed to give a small part to Bonanno’s nephew, Tarantola.
http://www.forgetaboutitthefilm.com/photos.htm
(Photograph number 20 depicts Tarantola in a black suit and plum-colored shirt next to Michael Paloma in the center, playing the part of a Godfather).
But the extortion didn’t stop. To make matters worse, after receiving suspicious reports from the company’s stock transfer affiliates, First American Stock Transfer secured by Paloma, BJ found out that stock certificates with his forged signature have been issued in rapid succession. BJ contacted Phil Young with the First American Stock Transfer and directed them to immediately stop issuing any other stock certificates. BJ contacted Paloma, his attorneys and business affiliates in writing, demanding that they stop their activities with the stock.
http://www.pennystocksexposed.com/pse_060.htm http://www.pennystocksexposed.com/pse_061.htm http://www.pennystocksexposed.com/pse_062.htm
Paloma and his cohorts either ignored BJ’s requests or responded in an arrogant fashion by telling BJ there was nothing he could do to stop them. Something serious was happening. BJ knew he needed help. He called the FBI and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and arranged meetings with both agencies. They told him something astounding: apparently, Paloma had quite a reputation in the stock world.
http://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/complr17462.htm http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/lr17462.htm
It all started to make sense. By surfing the Internet, BJ discovered a horrifying penny stock scheme, with press releases he had never seen or approved, listing him as the source. The FBI and the SEC officially enlisted BJ’s help with their investigation.
TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT OFFICIAL INVESTIGATIONS BY THE FBI AND THE SEC, READ SECRET TRANSCRIPTS OF EXTORTION MEETINGS WITH MOB ASSOCIATES AND SEE PHOTOGRAPHS OF SECRET MEETINGS WITH BONANNO ORGANIZED CRIME FAMILY ASSOCIATES, READ THE UPCOMING BOOK: “DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY: TERROR WITHIN. The Truth Is No Longer A Secret”.
When Julia returned to work, her situation had not improved. Even after she started to come to work without her helmet, Susan Boutwell didn’t treat Julia any better and soon attempted to downgrade her performance from “Outstanding” to “Excellent”. Julia asked Ward to intervene and submitted extensive paperwork to justify an “Outstanding” rating. Ward did not do anything to intervene as Boutwell was doing exactly what Ward authorized her to do. Julia knew it was just a matter of time before her rating would be arbitrarily lowered again in an effort to administratively remove her from her job.
When Julia complained, no one listened. Of course, she was complaining to the same group of people determined to destroy her. In the mean time Boutwell started to initiate investigations against Julia, one right after another. Unlike his inaction in response to Julia’s complaint of sexual harassment and retaliation, Ward gladly proceeded with any idea Boutwell dragged in and even wrote up his own requests for investigation. Coming from a Port Director, any request of investigation would receive extra attention and let investigating officer know: the management wanted this person out of the way.
Boutwell started to regularly rummage through Julia’s lockers, looking for ideas to file more reports against her. Amongst Julia’s personal items, Boutwell happened to find a company T-Shirt from the feature film “Forget About It” and a photograph of Julia with Burt Reynolds. Her wheels were spinning, Boutwell raced to Ward’s office. Of course, Boutwell couldn’t admit to looking through Julia’s lockers. Together, they came up with the idea of claiming that Boutwell found a website depicting BJ and Julia working together on the set of “Forget About It” and listing information on the dates of filming, etc. A big lie was born – Ward and Boutwell were determined to take it all the way.
The Department of Homeland Security would go so far as to falsely claim that Julia was co-starring in “Forget About It” alongside Burt Reynolds and convinced local Phoenix, AZ City Councilman Tom Simplot to write a sworn statement, claiming to have interviewed Julia as an actress on the set of “Forget About It”. The claim of Julia working on the set were undeniably refuted and the City Councilman, who in fact had never even met Julia, produced a retraction within his second sworn statement, apologizing profusely for his mistake in going along with the DHS agenda and lies.
The Agency appointed Fact Finder Donald Anderson to investigate Julia based on Boutwell and Ward’s request for an investigation. What Julia didn’t know was the fact that OPR/ICE Agents Kaufer and Deal were covertly directing Donald Anderson’s investigation from the sidelines. This almost clever setup was designed to give an impression of an impartial Fact Finder from out of state being assigned to handle the case, to deny Julia any future recourse to address the fact that these investigations were conducted in retaliation for her EEO case filing and protected disclosures. In fact, individuals pulling Anderson’s invisible strings included Lauren Kaufer (an administrative Desk Clerk with the Labor Employee Relations who was in constant communication with San Diego Director of Field Operations Adele Fasano, Port Director William “Bruce” Ward and Port Director Oscar Preciado, helping them to get rid of whistleblowers whom they referred to as “problem employees”), her husband, OPR/ICE Resident Agent In Charge Herbert P. Kaufer and his subordinate, Jeffrey J. Deal.
This tightly-knit team had a deadly grip on anything involving Julia Davis. For example, in a Leave Without Pay investigation, Lauren Kaufer was the Administrative Point of Contact, her husband Herbert Kaufer was the Investigative Point of Contact and Agent Jeffrey Deal continued to remain as the lower-level point man, with reports being simultaneously transmitted to a host of “headquarters people” in Washington , D.C.
In his sworn deposition on January 24, 2005 , Donald Anderson’s marionette investigatory techniques came to light when he was questioned about individuals directing his actions from behind the scenes:
“Q. Subsequently to coming to San Diego , did you have occasion to meet with either Herbert Kaufer or Lauren Kaufer? A. Yes. Q. You met with both of them? A. That’s correct… A. Did you have contact with Washington , D.C. at any time after being designated as fact finder until today regarding the Julia Davis matter? A. Yes. Q. With whom did you have contact? A. With many people.”
In his sworn statements, Deal admitted to providing “material support” to Anderson . In his sworn statements, Anderson admitted that Boutwell never provided any evidence to corroborate her allegations, nor was she able to prove the existence of the website where she claimed to have obtained evidence of wrongdoing. Anderson stated under oath that he never had any proof that Julia violated any of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) regulations. Further discovery revealed that Anderson was advised by San Diego, CA based Assistant US Attorney Timothy Stutler that concocting criminal charges against Julia Davis would be the best litigation strategy, which would also dissuade the media from covering the story.
Julia knew she was under attack, although she couldn’t possibly imagine the magnitude of the Agency’s effort to destroy her. But that did not stop her from doing her job well and pointing out troublesome issues at the Port.
As a concerned citizen, on June 15, 2004 , Julia sent a memo to the Port management, with copies to Senator Dianne Feinstein and DHS Secretary Tom Ridge regarding the removal of X-Ray machines and pre-screening GSA personnel from the San Ysidro Port of Entry, which could have disastrous ramifications to public safety and border security. Without those pre-screening security measures, The Port was wide open to the possibility of a terrorist or suicide bomber entering the Port through the pedestrian tunnel connecting Mexico to the US at the San Ysidro Port, walking all the way down the tunnel with a bomb or explosives, undetected, until reaching another side of the tunnel, steps away from American soil. Of course, only reports against Julia were getting immediate attention, while her valid national security concerns were ignored.
In a complete misrepresentation, Adele Fasano boasted about “heightened security” at the San Ysidro Port of Entry in an official statement before the House Armed Services Committee, Subcommittee on Military Research and Development, U.S. House of Representatives on February 21, 2002 . Adele Fasano stated, in part:
“To achieve heightened border security after September 11, all ports-of-entry were placed on a Level 1 security alert. Since then, the inspection of border crossers, their belongings and their vehicles have been more detailed. Security operations include: special pre-primary roving teams to open more vehicle trunks and hoods; placement of magnetometers and X-ray machines in pedestrian walkways: after-hours officer presence at non-24-hour ports-of-entry; photo identification requirement of all applicants applying for entry including U.S. citizens; and extensive computer queries on pedestrians using the service's Interagency Border Inspection System (IBIS).”
TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE REMOVAL OF X-RAY MACHINES, METAL DETECTORS AND GSA PERSONNEL FROM THE SAN YSIDRO PORT OF ENTRY AND TO SEE RELATED PHOTOGRAPHS AND OFFICIAL REPORTS, READ THE UPCOMING BOOK: “DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY: TERROR WITHIN. The Truth Is No Longer A Secret” AND WATCH THE UPCOMING DOCUMENTARY FILM.
Later that month, Julia uncovered another problem after witnessing a Customs and Border Protection Officer falsifying alien’s nationality upon her Supervisor’s recommendation. The official record was being altered, to record alien’s nationality as Mexican and erase their true country of origin. This was done to speed up case processing. The lack of space in the Homeland Security’s detention facilities and specialized processing procedures for Other Than Mexican (OTM) aliens forced the Department of Homeland Security to come up with different ways of handling this growing problem.
Unlike the fast and easy “Catch and Release” program implemented to handle illegal immigrants from contiguous territories (Mexico and Canada), where an Expedited Removal program allows them to be returned to their countries almost immediately upon their apprehension, OTM proceedings involve more complicated case processing and then be held in detention, awaiting flights to their countries. A growing number of aliens are simply freed with a Notice To Appear (NTA) for subsequent removal hearings because of a lack of holding space.
In the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2001 , 5,251 non-Mexicans were freed on their own recognizance from Border Patrol custody, according to statistics from the agency. In fiscal year 2002, that number rose to 5,725, then in 2003 the number again increased to 7,972. In 2004, a total of illegal OTM aliens reached a whopping 34,161, which included at least 91 illegal immigrants from Special Interest Countries. In 2005, even before the fiscal year was over, 70,624 OTMs have been released on their own recognizance, for a total of 70% of all Other Than Mexican aliens apprehended by the Border Patrol, including 50 Special Interest Country aliens.
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Spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security Russ Knocke attempted to justify the Agency’s release of Special Interest Country aliens, stating: "An alien from a special-interest country who presents absolutely no risk -- is that someone you're going to detain? Or are you going to detain a drug dealer or a child predator from a country that's not on the special-interest country list?" Official ICE statistics estimate a cumulative 465,000 undocumented immigrants have received final orders of removal but remain at large.
The problem didn’t get any better in 2005, according to Michael Chertoff ‘s commentary, as reported by the Washington Times. Facing an ever-growing flood of OTM aliens, the Department of Homeland Security has increased its efforts to remove them from the United States , instead of releasing them into the US because of a lack of detention space. In 2004, approximately 44,000 OTMs were allowed into the US , although it is not known how many of them were detained and how many remain free. Members of Congress are continuing to make requests for information to the government officials, asking for clear assessments of numbers and steps being taken to thwart the entry of terrorists.
Faced with this issue, in 2005 Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff changed the process, allowing Expedited Removal proceedings for certain classes of OTM aliens, to speed up and simplify the process that had previously taken months. Chertoff commented: "The use of this authority will allow DHS the ability to gain greater control of our borders and to protect our country against the terrorist threat," Mr. Chertoff said. Nearly 70 %, or 68,000 of the more than 98,000 OTM’s detained in 2005 were released into the US almost immediately because of government’s inability to return them to their home country, coupled with the serious lack of detention facilities to hold them until their removal.
This national security loophole is subject to being used to the advantage of terrorist elements. In 2004 Adnan G. El Shukrijumah, a key Al Qaeda cell leader for whom the U.S. government has offered a $5 million reward, has reportedly met with leaders of a Salvadoran criminal gang with roots in Mexico and the United States, in an effort by the terrorist network to seek help infiltrating the U.S.-Mexico border. A uthorities said Al Qaeda terrorists hope to take advantage of a lack of detention space within the Department of Homeland Security that has forced immigration officials to release OTM’s back into the United States , rather than return them to their home countries.
El Shukrijumah was among seven suspected Al Qaeda operatives identified by Attorney General John Ashcroft as being involved in plans to strike new targets in the US . Ashcroft cited "credible intelligence from multiple sources," stating that El Shukrijumah posed "a clear and present danger to America ." FBI alerts described him as "armed and dangerous" and declared him a major threat to homeland security. Ashcroft also stated that U.S. border agents and inspectors had ramped up efforts to find El Shukrijumah amid reports that the Al Qaeda leader was thought to be seeking opportunities for entry into the US along the U.S.-Mexico border.
In 2005, Border Patrol Chief David V. Aguilar told a Senate subcommittee that agents in Texas alone are experiencing a near-threefold increase in the number of OTMs, and there is no adequate detention space to hold them. "We interdict them, process them and then hand them off," Chief Aguilar said, while also noting that noting that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is responsible for the detention. Chief Aguilar told the subcommittee that because of a lack of intelligence data, some of the OTM’s released into the United States with a Notice To Appear may have been criminals; only about 13 percent ever show at future immigration hearings.
Plagued with the problem, not everyone within the Agency sought to improve the process – some just found the way to deal with the issue by breaking the law. On June 29, 2004 Julia reported to ICE/OPR that Supervisor Joe Gonzalez had told CBP Officer Cisneros to falsify the alien’s nationality, changing it from Honduran to Mexican to expedite processing. When questioned about it, in two separate sworn statements Cisneros admitted that Gonzalez did in fact “suggest” she falsify the alien’s nationality and she did just that, using whiteout on an official report and recording false information instead. Gonzalez claimed under oath to remember nothing of the events in question, even though he was questioned just a couple of weeks after directing his subordinate to commit the falsification in question.
Even though the government’s files contained the falsified document with whiteout, CBP Officer Cisneros admitted to committing this reprehensible act under the direction of her Supervisor and while sworn statements confirmed that a Supervisor did in fact suggest that a CBP Officer break the law, the office of Professional Responsibility within the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement closed the investigation, stating that the report was “unsubstantiated”. San Diego OPR/ICE Agents jointly involved in a yet another case of cover-up were Jeffrey J. Deal, Robert Broyles, their Supervisors, OPR/ICE Resident Agent In Charge Herbert P. Kaufer and OPR/ICE Special Agent In Charge James Wong.
While knowingly closing an investigation of DHS Officers guilty of falsifying the alien’s nationality, Deal, Kaufer, Broyles and Wong again concentrated on Julia. Instead of investigating her report, Agents initiated yet another investigation against her. As Deal testified under oath, by that time there was “quite a number of investigators that have looked into matters regarding Julia Davis”. The Department of Homeland Security continued to ignore Julia’s reports of corruption and significant problems within the Agency, while devoting enormous manpower and resources to investigate her instead. Julia had no idea that she was at the center of such a twisted plot. She simply continued to do her job.
TO REVIEW RELEVANT REPORTS, SWORN STATEMENTS, PHOTOGRAPHS, VIDEO FOOTAGE, AUDIO TAPE TRANSCRIPTS AND COURT TESTIMONY IN QUESTION, READ THE UPCOMING BOOK: “DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY: TERROR WITHIN - The Truth Is No Longer A Secret”.
It was on 4 th of July, 2004 when Julia unexpectedly uncovered the most important violation of all – a breach of national security that to this day remains unresolved, which caused the Agency’s retaliation against Julia to spiral out of control. In March of 2004 the Department of Homeland Security, various Intelligence and media sources issued urgent warnings of Al Qaeda’s plans to enter the United States from Mexico on national holidays. Special Intelligence alerts were issued, designating 4 th of July a “Date To Watch”. Al Qaeda infiltration across the porous southern border has been and continues to be a constant concern since 9/11, with US officials citing intelligence sources providing the most definitive evidence that terrorists are planning to use the border with Mexico as an entry point into the United States .
Richard Shultz, an international security expert at Tufts University 's Fletcher School in Medford , Massachusets stated, "We believe there is an international Salafist Jihadi movement with a goal to attack the near enemy and far enemy - the US . These terrorists are smart. They study these issues and learn from one other. And one way in is right through the southern security perimeter ."
Senator John McCain (R) of Arizona stated at a Senate hearing on threats facing the US : "We have now hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people who are crossing illegally every year. And we are now seeing a larger number of people cross our southern border who are from countries of interest as opposed to just Latin American [countries]." Senator McCain was rightly concerned about entrants from Special Interest Countries. Members of Congress have continually stated that evidence is mounting of terrorist networks planning entries via the US/Mexico border. This was confirmed when US officials intercepted a letter attributed to A bu Musab al-Zarqawi, the mastermind of many of the terror attacks in Iraq, which revealed that Mr. Zarqawi was said to be planning to broaden his campaign to include strikes in the US - and suggested it would be easy to infiltrate the US through the southern border.
The potential for terrorists entering the US from Mexico is handled in close cooperation with Mexican authorities. OTM’s detained in Mexico are screened for possible terror activities and if any evidence surfaces, Mexican intelligence officials share that information with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) – the largest investigative branch of the Department of Homeland Security, entrusted with protecting the US against terrorist attacks. ICE officials are charged with sharing such information with the Joint Terrorism Task Force, in a weekly meeting. ICE officials also staff the Intelligence unit at the San Ysidro Port of Entry.
4 th of July, 2004, aside from being our national Independence Day, was also an important anniversary for the US Customs: exactly 215 years ago President George Washington signed the very first Tariff Act of July 4, 1789 , preceding the creation of the United States Customs Service. On July 4, 2004 intelligence officers from ICE at the San Ysidro Port celebrated Independence Day and the anniversary of Customs in style: they all went home. Terror-related intelligence alerts didn’t deter the ICE intelligence office from taking the day off.
On July 4, 2004 , Julia was the Acting Supervisor in charge of Port Enforcement (PET) Team on the evening shift traditionally known as one of the busiest time periods for entries. PET Team was in charge of processing Special Interest Country (SIC) applicants for admission in a designated manner. This usually meant fingerprinting, questioning and enrolling SIC aliens into the system known as National Security Entry/Exit Registration System (NSEERS) – a national registry for aliens arriving from certain countries, or those who meet a combination of intelligence-based criteria, and are identified as presenting an elevated national security concern. Due to the elevated risk of terror attack and date-specific intelligence alerts, it was especially important to take every precaution to protect the border from terrorists.
Julia was alone in the Supervisor’s office, having just brought in the paperwork with the records of entries processed by the PET Team on the previous shift. Despite the terror alerts and special 4 th of July warnings, the PET Team was short staffed that day. Julia started inputting statistics from information left by the earlier shift – cover sheets with descriptions of cases processed earlier and their dispositions to be entered into the statistical database – the Vanguard System.
As Julia was processing the stack of paperwork, she noticed something highly unusual. By the time she reached the bottom of the stack, she was horrified by what she saw. There were 23 cover sheets for applicants from Special Interest Countries processed by the earlier shift. That meant that in a ten hour period, 23 aliens from potential terrorist countries had entered the US – as opposed to the normal average of 15 to 20 SIC applicants in an entire month. An entire month’s worth of SIC applicants for admission poured in during a 10 hour period on a national holiday. To properly process and enroll such an alien in NSEERS could have taken from 40 minutes to an hour. Julia rushed out to the intake area, to see how many SIC aliens were still waiting to be processed. Not one of them was there – all 23 were already in the United States .
Julia was surprised and started to look into the paperwork. She soon noticed that none of the entrants had been enrolled in NSEERS. Her heart was beating faster and faster, she was anxiously reading the reports. There has to be some way to explain this, she thought. There wasn’t.
NSEERS was created after 9/11 and required men 18 and older from 25 countries on the Special Interest Country list to be interviewed, fingerprinted and photographed. Of the approximately 177,000 who registered, 20 percent had some kind of immigration problems, and 11 persons were suspected of having ties to terrorism. This was clearly an important program that produced results and provided invaluable information to the intelligence community, allowing the United States to compare the fingerprints of aliens who may present elevated national security concerns against a database of wanted criminals and known terrorists, while also providing invaluable information on their whereabouts and associations. The Special Interest Countries were prioritized for special registration because all of them had ties or associations with Al-Qaeda or other active terrorist organization, or where the US had other national security concerns.
Julia continued looking through the paperwork to see what steps officers took to gather information or to run checks on the SIC applicants for admission. Only a few of them had copies of documents attached to the partially-completed cover sheets. None of them had copies or descriptions of the pocket litter, address or phone books, notes or other materials that were required to be copied under the existing rules. The same PET area where Julia was processing the documents contained all the required equipment necessary for properly processing applicants for admission from Special Interest Countries (SIC), such as fingerprinting equipment (IAFIS) for running background checks and copying machines for making duplicates of what they were carrying. Julia could not find any evidence that any of the 23 had been fingerprinted, photographed or thoroughly questioned. None of this made any sense.
Julia picked up the stack of paperwork for the 23 SIC entrants and rushed to the Intelligence Office – only to find out that no one was there on 4 th of July. The office was locked and empty until Monday morning. Amazed and distraught by what she discovered, Julia went to the acting Port Director Robert Van Ness and asked him if he had been notified of these suspicious 23 entries. He said he knew nothing about it and seemed as surprised as Julia. Growing increasingly concerned, she asked him what she should do and whom to notify. Van Ness told Julia to take the cases to the Intelligence Office and then remembered that everyone was off for the holiday. He then told Julia to just place all of the paperwork in the intake box outside the Intelligence office – and someone would look at it whenever they come back on Monday.
Julia obeyed Port Director’s directive and did as she was told. Still, she couldn’t shake the uneasy feeling about what might be going on. If an Al Qaeda operative or worse, an Al Qaeda cell had passed through the port, the intelligence community needed to know – and needed to know right away. Anything could happen in a matter of hours, without a warning. Julia was not comfortable with the idea that no one, except for herself and the Port Director, would know anything about this until Monday. As an Officer, she had to obey Port Director’s order. As a citizen, she had to do something.
Julia’s shift ended around midnight . All the way home she could not stop thinking about what happened. 23 people from suspected countries had entered during a 10-hour period on a national holiday, designated as a special “Date To Watch” and none of them had been properly processed. No one was doing anything about it. Julia couldn’t live with the idea of being complacent while national security was at stake. When she got home, Julia phoned the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) and reported the incident. Myra Hudnor, the duty agent, took her call and asked Julia to put her concerns in writing. She did and faxed the report to the FBI around 3:00 in the morning.
TO SEE FBI INTAKE REPORT, JULIA’S REPORT TO THE FBI, RELEVANT SWORN STATEMENTS AND COURT TESTIMONY IN QUESTION, READ THE UPCOMING BOOK: “DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY: TERROR WITHIN. The Truth Is No Longer A Secret”.
Julia’s outline of events provided to the FBI said in part: “I am referring this issue to the FBI since this information could prove useful in preventing another terrorist attack”. Hudnor wrote a report and attached a copy of Julia’s memo. No one ever asked Julia about it again, although it got the attention of her higher-ups. Port Director William “Bruce” Ward, who lied about referring Julia’s report of sexual harassment to the FBI and did nothing to report it, fired out a “Significant Incident Report” to the Commissioner’s Situation Room. What Ward reported as “Significant” did not concern the highly suspicious entries of 23subjects from Special Interest Countries on a national holiday. Instead, the subject of Ward’s urgent report to the Commissioner was Julia, her prior EEOC complaint of sexual harassment and her embarrassing report to the outside agency, FBI/JTTF.
Ward’s report did not reflect any concern as to discovering the identities of 23 SIC entrants and instead centered around Julia. Ward ended his Situation Report by writing: “It should also be noted that Ms. Davis has an ongoing EEO case against the Service”. The Commissioner’s Office and support personnel, such as David J. Murphy and Carl S. Campbell reacted the same way and have sent an urgent request to Port Directors Ward and Preciado and Labor Employee Relations clerk Lauren Kaufer, stating: “Oscar, Bruce, Lauren: Can you get me this for the Dep. AC [Assistant Commissioner] and DHS as quickly as possible”. Commissioner’s Office was clearly concerned with negative fallout stemming from Julia’s disclosure – and what they wanted was information on how she could be most effectively silenced and discredited. After all, who would pay attention to a disgruntled employee?
Director of Field Operations, Adele Fasano, made requests of her own in her communications to Lauren Kaufer: “Please ensure that the letter this employee sent to the FBI with copies to the Commissioner and Secretary Ridge on DHS letterhead is reviewed for any misconduct. If misconduct took place, the employee should be held accountable for what she did”. The Agency was not at all concerned with the identities of Special Interest Country applicants who entered the country on 4 th of July. Instead, they were concerned with eliminating the source of this whistleblowing disclosure.
Notably, Fasano didn’t do anything to discipline Port Director Orlando Chambers for improperly using the Department of Homeland Security letterhead to help his drinking buddy, Supervisor Crusilla. Julia’s national security concerns reflected in her communication to the FBI on the same letterhead was something for which Fasano wanted to make sure Julia gets punished.
Labor Employee Relations (LER) desk clerk Lauren Kaufer was eager to help Fasano in getting the Davis . After all, the team has been covertly working against her in the shadows. However, there was no dirt to give to the Commissioners office. Kaufer wrote: “There are no current LER issues pending”. There were simply no issues with Julia’s employment to be reported, other than her outstanding performance ratings. That was easily changed.
Lauren Kaufer was going to make sure that pretty soon Julia’s pristine employment record would have a host of LER problems - and much, much more. She knew just what to do – she called her husband. Lauren Kaufer’s husband, Herbert Kaufer, as a Resident Agent in charge of the San Diego OPR/ICE was ready and willing to help. After all, getting the Davis out of the agency had been something that Fasano, Deal and both Kaufers had worked on since Julia’s sexual harassment complaint. Now this was a top priority and they were prepared to go all the way.
After receiving an urgent Situation Report, Commissioner Bonner’s office was hit with another revelation: Los Angeles Times journalist was asking Commissioner pointed questions about Julia’s report. The Public Affairs office scheduled a follow up press conference with the Commissioner to address reporter’s questions for August 18, 2004 . Washington began preparing for Commissioner Bonner’s August 18 interview with the reporter.
The instructions from Washington were clear: “the employee should be held accountable for what she did.” All issues involving Julia were designated “top priority” and were to be given “immediate attention”, as Deal later testified under oath. Suddenly, the complaints Julia had filed against her supervisors were turned against her. She went from being the witness to being the subject.
The exemplary officer with outstanding performance evaluations has suddenly became a “problem employee”. Port Directors William “Bruce” Ward and Oscar Preciado supplied Lauren Kaufer with all ammunition she needed to continue with the war against Julia. Lauren Kaufer immediately initiated investigations against Julia based on her letters, e-mail communication and reports. Lauren Kaufer submitted these administrative requests for investigation to none other than her husband, OPR/ICE Agent Herbert Kaufer. Based on his wife’s submissions, Herbert immediately started investigations, with as many as ten reports of investigation being simultaneously written. Herbert Kaufer had assigned those investigations to his subordinate Jeffrey Deal, telling him to leave everything else aside and make all investigations of Julia Davis “top priority”, as Deal later testified under oath.
In the mean time, Commissioner’s office needed information to dispel information in Julia’s report to the FBI. Expeditiously assigned by the Commissioner’s office to prepare a point by point refutation of all Julia’s claims, Senior Inspector Robert Knox, labeled and claiming to be a self-professed expert examined the SIC records for July 4, 2004 and found that “three persons were born in Iraq and are now United States citizens. Seven persons were born in Iran and are now United States citizens. Nine persons were from India and were admitted as non immigrants. Three persons were from Israel and one Brazilian .” One person had entered illegally from Pakistan , a country whose population is mostly sympathetic to Osama bin Laden, and he was taken into custody.
Not surprisingly, Knox’s investigation cleared the local management of any allegation of lacking procedures - without ever mentioning the numbers in which SIC entrants have arrived or why so many steps in their processing had been inexplicably skipped. Instead, Knox concentrated on the immigration status of the entrants, without giving any thought that with the lax processing, without running requisite checks – there was no way to even be sure that entrants provided valid documents. There was no mention in the report that at least one applicant for admission was determined to have presented a counterfeit document. Cover-up was the name of the game.
Knox claimed there was no reason for concern, since 10 of the entrants, although born in Special Interest Countries (Iraq and Iran), were now US citizens – completely ignoring a well known fact that Al Qaeda supporters and terrorists are not limited to non-immigrants and frequently include US citizens and permanent residents, such as Iranian-born Zeayadali Malhamdary, a legal permanent resident of the US, who was arrested for smuggling illegal immigrants from Special Interest Countries into the US from Mexico. Officials say he smuggled in about 60 Iranians via Mexico and provided high-quality fraudulent documents for entry into the US . Since the documents of 4 th of July entrants were not thoroughly checked and their fingerprints were not processed through the database of known terrorists and criminals, there was no way to determine whether any – or all of them – might have entered with such “high-quality fraudulent documents”.
The Center for Immigration Studies conducted studies, examining how foreign terrorists entered and remained in the United States over the past decade. The report, entitled "The Open Door: How Militant Islamic Terrorists Entered and Remained in the United States, 1993-2001," by the Center's Director of Research Steven A. Camarota examines the immigration status not only of the 9/11hijackers but of all 48 foreign-born, radical Muslim terrorists, almost all of them linked to Al Qaeda, who have been charged, convicted, or admitted involvement in terrorism in the United States since 1993.
Contrary to popular belief that foreign terrorists have come only as non-immigrants, research indicates that they have exploited every possible means of admission to the United States: some have indeed come as students, tourists, and business travelers; others, however, have been Lawful Permanent Residents and naturalized U.S. citizens; while yet others have come across with counterfeit documents, arrived as stowaways on ships, been granted asylum or amnesty. At the time they committed their crimes: 16 (one-third) of the 48 terrorists were on temporary visas (primarily tourists); 17 (another third) were Lawful Permanent Residents or naturalized U.S. citizens; 12 (one-fourth) were illegal aliens; 3 of the 48 had applications for asylum pending.
Although the September 11th hijackers entered on temporary visas, legal immigrants and naturalized U.S. citizens have also played key roles in terrorism on U.S. soil. For example, Siddig Ibrahim Siddig Ali, ringleader of the plot to bomb New York City landmarks in 1993, is an LPR, and Ali Mohammed, who wrote al Qaeda's terrorist handbook, is a naturalized U.S. citizen.
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In 2007, the Department of Homeland Security finally created a unit to combat the threat posed by "homegrown terrorists" — citizens or legal residents who plot attacks from inside the nation's borders. In his statement to a Senate Panel, Chertoff said: “ This phenomenon presents a real and serious challenge to our nation ".
In 2005, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge publicly met with top Mexican officials to discuss border security and smuggling rings that could be used to slip Al Qaeda terrorists into the country. Weeks prior to his visit, U.S. and Mexican intelligence conferred about reports from several Al-Qaeda detainees, raising concerns about the potential use of Mexico as a staging area "to acquire end-stage chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear material."
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101041122-782068,00.html
FBI Director Robert Mueller, during a House Appropriations Committee hearing, said he was aware that individuals from countries with known Al Qaeda ties had entered the US under false identities. How many of the 23 have entered the US through San Ysidro on 4 th of July with terrorist agenda? Sadly, we may never know.
In attempting to justify the Agency’s failure to enroll 13 non-immigrants into NSEERS, to conduct proper checks and copy relevant documents, Knox insisted that their special registration was only “discretionary” and “not mandatory”. Knox admitted that he ignored, did not investigate and did not include in his report any information regarding intelligence alerts warning about terrorists planning to enter the US on national holidays, which curiously coincided with the suspicious events of July 4, 2004 .
During the hearing, Knox had to answer questions as to his report and admitted that he neither investigated nor included any information into his report addressing the exceptionally high numbers of applicants from Special Interest Countries coming across the border on 4 th of July. When confronted with direct questions, Knox couldn’t deny that Julia’s concern was completely justified:
“ADMINISTRATIVE JUDGE: The question was: Would it be unreasonable for an inspector to be concerned about a large number of aliens coming into this country from special interest countries? Was that your question? MR. ROSS: That's correct. Post-9/11…Your answer? THE WITNESS: Yes. Yes. I think if an inspector saw a large number of people coming across would say to themselves, Hey, what's goin' on here?”
Other Agency witnesses also conceded that Julia’s concern was well-founded. Still, the Department of Homeland Security continued to insist that Julia should not have disclosed this information to the FBI.
ICE/ OPR, the same department of the Agency invested with investigating Julia’s report to the FBI, was also the same office staffing the Port with intelligence officers – those officers so notably absent from duty on the 4 th of July holiday weekend. The investigators were, in effect, investigating themselves. Much as Narcissus, entranced by his own perfection, ICE/OPR could not find any fault in itself. In fact, the Report of Investigation (ROI) said the proper procedures were in place and claimed that Julia’s concern was caused only by her not knowing the regulations. The Agency continued to assert that there was no reason for concern – and no need for a report to the FBI/JTTF. There was nothing left to investigate, except for Julia. Just as before, the accuser became the accused.
Julia was stunned by the Agency’s lack of interest in her report and by their claim that she didn’t know the rules. If anyone at the Port meticulously studied and implemented the new rules and regulations, she did. Julia’s complaint was about gaps and omissions in the procedures, a lack of consistency and a potential breach of national security. Officers at the Port supported Julia and understood why she made the report. Unfortunately, they did not have the power to help and protect their friend. Julia would need all of the invaluable support and understanding provided by her co-workers and friends, as the atmosphere at work was becoming even more oppressive.
One day Julia came to work and placed her bag on the chair by the Supervisor’s desk, where she would work that day as the Acting Supervisor on her shift. Boutwell walked over to that area, grabbed Julia’s bag and slammed it to the floor in the middle of the room; Julia’s belongings inside the bag rattling.
Upon receiving Julia’s claim, William “Bruce” Ward immediately contacted Lauren Kaufer. She rushed out to the Port to pick up the surveillance tape for the PET Team area, watched it at the Port with the management and hand-delivered it to her husband’s office. Lauren Kaufer later testified under oath that gathering information for the ICE/OPR is not part of her duties, nor was she an investigator authorized to engage in such activities. Of course, to discredit Julia Davis, DHS officials were willing to go to any lengths, breaking all rules in the process.
While it normally takes from three to six month for an average investigation to be completed (as reported by Agency officials in sworn statements), Deal managed to complete one of his newly created investigations of Julia in only one day. An investigation of Julia commenced on August 19, 2004 – and on August 20, 2004 OPR/ICE Agent Herbert Kaufer had already approved Deal’s Report of Investigation and prepared a proposal to suspend Julia. Proposal in hand, Kaufer and Deal raced into James Wong’s office. Wong signed the proposal and later claimed that he never reviewed any of the reports of investigation and relied upon Kaufer and Deal’s assurance. The proposal written by Herbert Kaufer and signed by James Wong stated: “CBPI DAVIS continues to accuse managers of perceived wrongs and her presence in the workplace could constitute a serious breach to security .”
The Agency made no secret that Julia was considered a threat to “security” only because she accused “managers of perceived wrongs” – which, in reality, meant that Julia embarrassed the Agency by exposing their incompetence to the FBI. Upon obtaining Wong’s signature, Herbert Kaufer faxed the letter to his wife Lauren Kaufer, LER clerk on the administrative side of the DHS camp. Lauren Kaufer was ready and waiting. She immediately sent the letter to William “Bruce” Ward, who couldn’t contain his excitement. The Port would finally be rid of the outspoken troublemaker. Since Julia was sick and off work, Port managers were anxiously waiting for the opportunity to serve Julia with the suspension proposal, while publicly embarrassing her by taking away her government issued weapon. Ward had already cut off Julia’s access to computer systems. Little did he know that, having had enough of the Agency’s abuses, Julia signed and submitted her letter of involuntary resignation on August 23, 2004 and already turned in her badge and her weapon.
A reasonable person might think that Julia’s separation from the Agency might finally bring the intolerable situation to the end. In the complicated world of government retaliation, this was only the beginning. Neither Julia nor BJ knew or could have imagined that the Department of Homeland Security would only escalate its efforts after Julia left the agency – after all, she had to be discredited to prevent the media or the courts from taking them seriously. The Department of Homeland Security created a Task Force to pursue Julia and BJ Davis, commenced warrantless surveillance and made plans for an attack so outrageous and hideous, it would surpass any known case of whistleblower retaliation to date.
Since there was nothing dark in Julia’s past, Kaufer and deal started looking at BJ’s life. Even though the Agency regulations specifically prohibit Agents and Officers from searching law enforcement databases without an authorized investigation in place, Kaufer and Deal ran searches of BJ’s name in Treasury Enforcement and Communication System (TECS) and discovered a 30-year old expunged, pardoned record. Instead of hunting down terrorists, catching corrupt federal agents, drug dealers (or, for that matter, tracking the 23 SIC entrants), the Department of Homeland Security would use the Patriot Act to retaliate for the acts of a true patriot.
BJ Davis certainly was not a boring subject of an investigation. A Hollywood Producer/Director was quite colorful, to say the least. At the time, he had recently started a company, Beverly Hills Film Studios, and had just finished producing and directing a feature film “Forget About It”, starring Burt Reynolds, Raquel Welch, Robert Loggia and Charles Durning.
Kaufer and Deal focused in on BJ, his personal life and his business affairs. Having input BJ’s name in various law enforcement databases, they became aware of BJ’s reports to the authorities about his company being muscled, pillaged and subjected to stock fraud by the Bonanno crime family. Seeing an easy way to have BJ and Julia Davis taken out by an outside source, Kaufer and Deal made sure that the mobsters became aware of BJ’s cooperation with authorities, notifying the Bonanno crime family of BJ’s reports to the SEC and the FBI. The mob and the Department of Homeland Security stood united by their common goal of destroying BJ and Julia. Kaufer and Deal told BJ’s business associates that the Department of Homeland Security considered Julia a “Domestic Terrorist” for filing lawsuits against the government and that Joint Task Force was conducting warrantless surveillance and wiretaps of Julia and BJ, which they thought the Patriot Act allowed them to do. Kaufer and Deal told witnesses that they were going to land a Blackhawk helicopter on Julia’s land and raid her house. Uncle Sam would pony up the bill. After all, the Agency really needed to send a helicopter to take down Julia. Nothing less would do.
TO SEE UNREDACTED MEMOS, SWORN STATEMENTS, OFFICIAL REPORTS AND OTHER RELEVANT DOCUMENTS, READ THE UPCOMING BOOK: “DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY: TERROR WITHIN. The Truth Is No Longer A Secret”.
Kaufer and Deal were having a blast in Davis ’ Hollywood offices at Raleigh Studios, which was more fun than chasing smugglers on the Mexican border. They raided Davis ’ office without a warrant, rummaged through his personal belongings and carried out whatever they wanted without even bothering to fill out a seizure form. Kaufer and Deal felt like two Dirty Harry’s in a Hollywood movie. Rules didn’t seem to apply to them.
During his sworn deposition, Herbert Kaufer stated that there were only seven or eight case agents in his office, as ICE/OPR was short of staff. The head of the same office, James Wong, said that there were 80 or more cases pending at any given time for his investigators to pursue. But, incredibly, Julia’s case was given top priority by Washington and the San Diego ICE/OPR office, while American taxpayers were financing Kaufer and Deal’s many excursions from San Diego to Hollywood , including luncheons, warrantless searches and surveillance.
During their visits to BJ’s company offices, Agents Kaufer and Deal encouraged his business associates to file criminal complaints and lawsuits against BJ and Julia to help the Department of Homeland Security in their “War On Davis”. Kaufer and Deal disclosed TECS printouts to civilians, divulged information pertaining to official investigations to the subjects of those investigations and acted with blatant disregard for any laws, rules or regulations.
In the mean time, Kaufer and Deal were actively looking for any possible grounds to file criminal charges against BJ and Julia – as well as encouraging others to do so. Instead of ferreting out criminal activity, Kaufer and Deal were attempting to create criminal activity out of thin air. They were going through the materials and documents illegally seized during the warrantless search of BJ’s office, which included pounds of EEO casework, Julia’s communications with her EEO attorney, BJ’s personal paperwork and other documents, film footage, intellectual properties and copyrighted materials.
During that trying time period, BJ and Julia knew they were under surveillance and their telephones were bugged. They felt threatened by the ICE/OPR agents and their obvious agenda. After testifying in Julia’s administrative proceedings against the Agency, Herbert Kaufer sent an e-mail from his government e-mail address, stating: RE: Davis - “I have everything I need. Catch you later ;).”
http://www.departmentofhomelandsecurityexposed.com/documents/homelandsecurityemail.pdf
BJ and Julia Davis made formal written complaints to US Attorney General Debrah Wong Yang, to the FBI and to various authorities who they thought would protect them from continued violations by the Department of Homeland Security on one side and extortion, death threats and intimidation by the Bonanno crime family on the other side. No action was taken to protect the Davis ’ from the government’s abuses or from the organized crime’s extortion.
In the mean time, Julia had her day in court on the EEO matter, in which the Judge was appalled by what he heard during the hearing as to the illegal conduct perpetrated by the Department of Homeland Security against Julia. Agency’s officials were exposed in having lied and manufactured documents, while failing to report the matter to the OIG. Julia continued her employment process with the FBI, having received an offer of employment and a letter of conditional appointment as a Special Agent.
But Julia’s victories only made her government adversaries more determined to retaliate against her. The OPR/ICE agents were ready to use all of their powers allocated for the Agency’s War on Terror to destroy the very Officer who tried to protect our borders from terrorists. When the FBI called the CBP on December 17, 2004 about Julia, they were told by Supervisor Susan Boutwell and Port Director Ward that Julia had recently resigned and was under investigation for fraud in the amount of 1.5 million dollars. The agent then called the FBI’s Phoenix office and was told there was a pending investigation involving organized crime that was in the early stages and that the office had been in contact with both Julia and BJ who were victims in the case.
After obtaining this information, Deal and Kaufer immediately released it to Bonanno elements - Michael Paloma aka Saquella, Anthony Tarantola and last but not least, the infamous Salvatore “Bill” Bonanno, informing all of them that BJ Davis initiated an investigation against them. This disclosure was in a direct violation of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982. OPR/ICE Agents Kaufer and Deal knowingly and with premeditation endangered BJ and Julia’s lives by letting the targets of an FBI investigation, organized crime members, know that BJ was providing information to authorities – while also interfering with Julia’s potential employment as an FBI agent. By their actions, federal agents were helping organized crime, empowering criminals in furtherance of their already monumental penny stock fraud.
Julia’s sexual harassment case was heard by Federal Administrative Judge Daniel E. Leach on April 18 and 19, 2005 in San Diego . On June 17, 2005 Judge Leach ruled in Julia’s favor. The order stated: “Given the nature and depth of the agency’s betrayal of complainant (Julia), no reasonable person could have continued working in such an employment environment I find that the complainant has met her burden of proof with respect to establishing that she was subjected to unlawful sexual harassment, that she both properly and timely used agency procedures to complain about the harassment; and that the agency failed to undertake reasonable efforts to investigate and to remedy the unlawful conduct to which she was subjected…The undisputed evidence reflects a pattern of abuse by Crusilla, including repeated instances where her breasts and body parts were touched, all of which constitute extremely serious incidents…No reasonable action to investigate or remedy the situation was undertaken…Based upon the testimony…I found that there exists at this facility a culture which trivializes and minimizes the appropriate status and position of females.”
The Judge further ruled: “While complainant’s termination is not before me, I find that based on the record in the case, complainant has established not only that the Agency engaged in illegal conduct, but also that the conduct was intolerable to a reasonable person because it was especially humiliating and included unnecessary harassment. Secondly, I find that complainant’s resignation was caused by, or in response to, the illegal treatment.” The judge awarded Julia $145,500.00 in damages, $70,257.00 in attorney’s fees, and $10, 233.26 in attendant costs. The ruling received media attention, was featured on the Federal Radio and was mentioned in news articles in the United States and abroad.
http://ezinearticles.com/?id=490694
Julia’s administrative cases and related media exposure continued to enflame the Department of Homeland Security’s officials, especially since Commissioner Robert Bonner was compelled to provide sworn testimony in response to the interrogatories regarding Julia’s whistleblowing disclosure pertaining to the 4 th of July breach of security. In his sworn statement, Commissioner Robert Bonner admitted to being questioned by a Los Angeles Times journalist regarding Julia’s report to the FBI.
BJ and Julia had no idea that ICE/OPR agent Jeffrey Deal was preparing to go before a Grand Jury that had convened that same month. As a result of the year-long, multiple investigations, Deal was finally preparing to bring criminal charges against Julia and BJ. Having interviewed any potentially hostile witnesses, Deal finally tracked down BJ’s ex-wife and talked her into giving him the statement he wanted.
On July 13, 2005 , ICE/OPR Special Agent Deal interviewed Dorothy Ching at the Torrance , California police department. BJ met her on a movie set, where he was working as the Stunt Coordinator and she was a makeup artist. They got married on May 31, 1990 , separated one month later and Ching petitioned for divorce in February 1992. BJ signed the paperwork that same month. They never lived together since 1991.
Deal solicited, welcomed and recorded Dorothy’s baseless, ridiculous assertion that Julia and her family were “Russian Mafia” and that Julia had paid BJ $10,000 to marry her and bring her to the United States . He used these fantasies of a scorned ex-wife as a basis for the filing of charges against BJ and Julia, even though there was absolutely no evidence of any wrongdoing on their part.
On August 9, 2005 a Grand Jury in Los Angeles handed down an indictment against BJ and Julia for alleged immigration fraud and the unlawful procurement of citizenship, based solely on the perjured testimony of OPR/ICE Special Agent Jeffrey Deal. The court immediately issued arrest warrants. Agents Kaufer and Deal convinced the Office of the US Attorney Debra Wong Yang and Assistant U.S. Attorney Steve Cazares to seek a no bail-detention for BJ and Julia Davis. The Law Enforcement Service Center entered BJ and Julia into the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) database as armed and dangerous fugitives from justice.
Neither BJ nor Julia had any idea there was a Grand Jury hearing against them, much less that they had been indicted and there were warrants out for their arrest. To the contrary, they were preparing for a meeting with journalists, arranged by BJ’s agent for August 10, 2005 at 3:30 pm at the Le Merigot Hotel in Santa Monica .
August 10, 2005 was the day the San Diego office of ICE/OPR had been waiting for, as during the past two years they had been conducting warrantless surveillance, warrantless wiretaps and Internet monitoring of the Davis . The warrantless surveillance dramatically intensified prior to the indictment, to include aerial flyovers and vehicle surveillance by as many as eight OPR/ICE Agents at each given time. BJ and Julia Davis knew they were being followed, sometimes by the mob, other times by the government. The Davis ’ photographed everyone following them, causing the DHS agents to warn each other that the Davis ’ were extremely surveillance-conscious.
The Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Unit, whose operations were financed at the expense of American taxpayers - had conducted aerial surveillance of the Davis residence, taking useless photographs of the red roof, desert cactus and rock landscaping. CBP Air and Marine Unit was a brand new department, formed in 2005 through a merger of aviation personnel and assets from the Border Patrol and the former Air and Marine Operations office, a legacy Customs unit whose primary mission was to support counter-narcotics operations. This unit was headed by Acting Assistant Commissioner Charles Stallworth, formerly of the U.S. Customs.
In addition to their land and aerial surveillance, “sneak and peak” excursions were conducted by the DHS. During their latest warrantless visit to the Davis residence, just days prior to the raid, agents created maps for the layout of the house and left the bedroom door unlocked. According to the government’s official reports, the very same door was designated as the “breeching” point for the August 10, 2005 raid of the house.
The plans for the raid were made and approved even before the indictment was handed down or the arrest warrants were issued. Agents Deal and Kaufer met with Marcus Custer of the San Diego Department of Homeland Security’s Special Response Team (SRT) to enlist their participation in arresting the couple at their home. Custer signed off on the plan to conduct a Blackhawk helicopter raid and the SRT’s participation on August 5, 2005 , in spite of the fact that Deal and Kaufer did not possess any warrants or indictments for the couple.
TO SEE RELEVANT REPORTS, GOVERNMENT PHOTOGRAPHS, READ SWORN STATEMENTS AND COURT TESTIMONY IN QUESTION, READ THE UPCOMING BOOK: “DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY: TERROR WITHIN. The Truth Is No Longer A Secret”.
Agents Kaufer and Deal rushed into town on August 9, 2005 , immediately after obtaining the indictment. They roamed the area, trying to analyze the shadows behind the curtains of the residence. Agent Deal wrote in his report, “It should also be noted that earlier on August 9, 2005 , a flash flood struck Yucca Valley , causing road closures and power outages. ”
The series of events that took place at the Davis residence on the morning of August 10, 2005 will go down in history as the feverish climax in the worst case of whistleblower retaliation, misuse of government funds and downright incompetence in the brief existence of the Department of Homeland Security.
The first agents arrived at 5:45 AM in the morning. They watched the Davis house while a SRT flyover confirmed that Julia’s Mercedes was not there. Agent Deal told the Special Response Team and the Blackhawk attack helicopter pilots to “stand down” and they returned to the Palm Springs International Airport . At 7:00 AM , Deal saw Julia’s elderly father at the driveway inspecting the damage from the flood the night before. He crossed the street to speak to a neighbor.
At 9:45 AM two agents saw an “unidentified female wearing a pink shirt and khaki shorts” outside the house. Although it was Julia’s mother, they mistook her for Julia. After all, one of the agents, Mike Sauerborn, participated with Deal in one of Julia’s six-hour interrogations during the laughable and inept investigation of a broken cell phone. Agents watched as Julia’s mother walked in and out the house, working in the yard and watering the plants. Anxious to raid the house, Agent Deal confirmed that it is Julia at 10:30 AM and called for the helicopter’s deployment. Deal thought that his main target was at home and Deal couldn’t wait to get his hands on her. He’s been waiting for this glorious moment since 2003. Instead, his expected moment of triumph exploded in a million tiny pieces.
At 11:22 AM the DHS Blackhawk helicopter landed within 15 yards of the Davis ’ residence. The SWAT team repelled from the helicopter dressed in black, carrying assault weapons and crouching as they ran up the stairs to the house. Simultaneously, eight unmarked cars were surrounding the perimeter. Even the local police, firefighters and Ambulance were summoned, as the Agents hoped to arrange a bloody firefight. The Agents were disappointed to find that the bedroom door they left unlocked during their last “sneak and peak” intrusion was now locked. In his Report of Investigation Deal wrote, the “first breeching point, the front door (facing south) was barricaded despite ramming…”
In a true Keystone fashion, when Deal wrote this official report, he knew very well that the bedroom door the agents tried to break down wasn’t really “barricaded” – it simply opened outward, while the Agents mindlessly tried to batter it inward, by smashing it with a battering ram. Of course, it is physically impossible to “barricade” from the inside any door that opens to the outside. After ramming a huge hole in the door, SRT Agents still could not open the door because they were pushing, instead of pulling. No one thought to simply reach through the opening and open the lock from the inside. The brave protectors of the homeland could not figure out the problem and continued beating down the door, which wouldn’t budge. Then they abandoned the bedroom door and scurried towards the front door of the residence.
At the same time, Julia’s father walked through an open front door towards the Agents, asking them what was going on. Several Agents attacked Julia’s elderly father, who was wearing only his underwear and obviously posed no threat. Agents threw him face down on the cement, stepping on his legs and handcuffing his hands. No one would answer his questions as to what was going on. Agents forcefully dragged Julia’s father down the steps, away from the house.
At the same time, the remaining dirty dozen rushed into the house, met by Julia’s frightened mother. They attacked her, throwing her face down on the tiled floor, twisting her arms behind her back, breaking her finger and seriously bruising her body, assault weapons pointed at her face with red laser sights. The crying, terrified woman was kept face down, handcuffed on the tiled floor of the kitchen for nearly an hour, periodically dragged back and forth by her cuffed hands behind her back to prevent her from getting a clear view of the different areas of the house agents were ransacking. Her questions for an explanation of what was going on and why she was being detained were ignored, while twenty seven armed agents were ransacking the residence. In their official court filings, the government later admitted that they had no probable cause to handcuff, force to the ground, forcefully remove from the residence or detain Julia’s parents for over an hour.
According to Deal’s report, the SRT searched the house, garage and out buildings, even though the Davis residence does not have a garage or out buildings. Within four minutes of the SRT search it was determined that neither BJ nor Julia were present. Then a second warrantless search was conducted. After the SRT boarded the helicopter and departed, Kaufer and Deal remained in the residence with other agents from the multi-agency Task Force, formed specifically to retaliate against Julia Davis. They were conducting an even more thorough warrantless search of the house, turning over mattresses, opening boxes, going through the family’s medications, looking inside their drawers, closets, jewelry box, medicine cabinets – taking out and photographing various items they found to be interesting. Deal even turned on the bedroom light to get a better look inside Julia’s nightstand, while the team’s illegal search was being memorialized. The government later released thirty-eight photographs taken during the raid, which expose the illegal rummaging by various government agents.
Thinking they’ve gotten away with conducting a warrantless search and seizure of BJ’s office, the self-created Task Force was flying high above the law. Their first warrantless search yielded voluminous materials, as the government admitted on the record. These materials were put to use by giving the Department of Homeland Security ideas on various venues that could be utilized to attack the Davis ’. The Task Force was determined to locate something that could be used to concoct additional criminal charges at the Davis ’ residence. Not having a search warrant never stopped the fearless team before. They continued rummaging, until Deal found Julia’s shotgun, hidden behind her clothes in her bedroom closet. Wearing surgical gloves, he removed it “as evidence.” At that point, Deal was satisfied, as they had found something that could be portrayed as incriminating evidence.
When Deal approached Julia’s parents, trying to question them one by one while they were held down by other agents, in response to their questions as to what was going on, Deal told them that their residence was being raided because “ Julia Davis is a terrorist ”.
TO SEE RELEVANT REPORTS, READ SWORN STATEMENTS AND COURT TESTIMONY IN QUESTION, READ THE UPCOMING BOOK: “DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY: TERROR WITHIN. The Truth Is No Longer A Secret”.
The SWAT raid was a disastrous embarrassment. In the beginning of the raid, after discovering that neither BJ nor Julia Davis were present, the agents phoned Assistant U.S. Attorney Steve Cazares who should have told the Agents to leave, since they didn’t have the search warrant. Instead, US Attorney Cazares simply told the Agents to leave copies of the arrest warrants and Deal’s business card somewhere by the front door before they leave. Having been denied the much anticipated opportunity to handcuff Julia and drag her across the floor, like he did with her mother, Deal was mad. Before he left, Deal circled and put an “x” on the date of the raid on Julia’s calendar and wrote “BOO!” over the number.
http://www.departmentofhomelandsecurityexposed.com/documents/calendar.pdf
After reviewing the video tapes and witness statements, BJ Davis commented, “I have directed and choreographed much more effective helicopter and SWAT assaults for film and TV productions, than this DHS fiasco, which is embarrassingly inadequate for America ’s self-proclaimed frontline defense ”.
At the beginning of the helicopter raid, OPR/ICE Jeffrey Deal and Herbert Kaufer did not realize at first they were being videotaped by a neighbor. Matthew Judd caught on camera everything the agents admitted and denied doing. Judd was shaken by seeing a Blackhawk helicopter land in a residential area. On the audio tape Judd’s fear is registered in his voice when he suspects ICE agents saw him as they guard the perimeter of the Davis home. Matthew Judd gave the videotape and an affidavit of what he witnessed to Julia Davis.
TO FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENED TO MATTHEW JUDD, SEE THE VIDEOTAPE OF THE BLACKHAWK HELICOPTER RAID, READ RELEVANT REPORTS, SWORN STATEMENTS AND COURT TESTIMONY IN QUESTION, READ THE UPCOMING BOOK: “DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY: TERROR WITHIN. The Truth Is No Longer A Secret” AND WATCH THE UPCOMING DOCUMENTARY.
On August 16, 2005 , Julia and BJ surrendered to the U.S. Marshals Service in Los Angeles , CA just like they would have done if they or their lawyers had been asked. They were shackled, handcuffed, fingerprinted and photographed. Jeffrey Deal and US Attorney Cazares requested that BJ and Julia be held in detention without bail. Since the charges did not warrant a no-bail detention, the government then requested that the bail be set as high as possible. Per the government’s insistence, the judge imposed an unusually high bail and restricted BJ and Julia’s travel.
BJ and Julia Davis’ exorbitant bail far exceeded the bail of the Deputy Press Secretary for the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Public Affairs in Washington , D.C. , Brian Doyle, who was arrested after having been caught red-handed for soliciting minors for sex on the Internet and transmitting harmful materials to minors using his official DHS position and credentials.
The content of Doyle’s communications with the intended victim were too extraordinary and graphic for public release, while within the same communications Doyle touted the fact that he worked for the Department of Homeland Security. Doyle told detectives that the sexual discussions were "kind of a power trip" for him. Without a plea deal, Doyle faced a possible punishment of 115 years in prison for the 23 charges against him. After pleading “no contest”, Doyle was sentenced to 5 years in state prison. After his egregious criminal behavior was discovered during a sting operation, the Department of Homeland Security placed Brian Doyle on administrative leave, which means that during that time he continued to receive his salary, at the expense of the American taxpayers.
The disparity between the way the Department of Homeland Security treated Doyle for his criminal actions, compared to the retaliation Julia Davis endured for her whistleblowing disclosures, is quite glaring. The Department of Homeland Security conducted investigations of Julia Davis for trivial, meaningless matters – such as the investigation into whether Julia’s purse was thrown to the floor hard enough to break her cell phone and the investigation into how Julia used her leave without pay. These investigations against Julia Davis were designated “top priority” and were to be given “immediate attention”. One of these menial investigations was completed by ICE/OPR Agent Jeffrey Deal in one day, with a recommendation written by Jeffrey Deal and Herbert Kaufer to immediately withdraw Julia’s security clearance, since the Department of Homeland Security considered her to be a threat to national security, based on Deal’s “findings” in the broken cell phone case.
To the contrary, Doyle’s truly criminal, despicable actions were classified by the head of the Department of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff to be nothing more than an individual “misstep”.
Chertoff further commented that he did not believe that Doyle’s sexual misconduct resulted in a breach of national security, downplaying the egregious nature of his actions. "From time to time, there will be instances when misconduct occurs," Chertoff said, referring to Doyle's arrest. Such lighthearted approach to sexual misconduct is very similar to the way the Agency looked the other way instead of protecting Julia Davis from her harasser.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/04/07/tech/main1482848.shtml http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/04/04/homeland.arrest/index.html http://www.tampabays10.com/news/local/article.aspx?storyid=28229 http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061118/NEWS/611180430/1039
WATCH THE VIDEO OF BRIAN DOYLE’S ARREST ON CBS NEWS: http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=1476172n
The disparity in the way the Department of Homeland Security treated Julia Davis in retaliation for her whistleblowing disclosures, as compared to the criminal elements discovered within the Agency, is further exemplified by the case of Daphiney Kimberly Caganap, who was indicted on nine counts on June 7, 2005 . The indictment alleged that Caganap, when she was the supervisor of the INS intelligence unit, had “received money and other things of value from a corrupt INS inspector at the San Ysidro Port of Entry. The indictment alleges that a criminal organization was paying the corrupt INS inspector to allow drugs and illegal aliens to be smuggled into the United States from the Republic of Mexico . ” Caganap, was placed on administrative (paid) leave and the Department of Homeland Security negotiated her surrender with Caganap’s attorney for months. In October of 2005, “in exchange for her resignation and guilty plea, prosecutors agreed to drop charges...[and] to recommend a sentence of probation”
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2006/01/14/news/sandiego/21_18_061_13_06.txt
On June 9, 2006 a Customs and Border Protection Officer Richard Elizalda (former co-worker of Julia Davis at the San Ysidro Port of Entry) was arrested for charges including accepting cash and a luxury vehicle from smugglers driving carloads of illegal immigrants through the Port. Richard Elizalda, had been a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer for nine years. Authorities discovered that he had been waving cars full with immigrants without asking for any documentation at his inspection lane. The ring had been operating for the last two years and Elizalda received up to $1,000 for each illegal immigrant that he allowed through. This arrest came a day after another border officer was arraigned on similar charges of accepting more than $500,000 in bribes from smugglers driving illegal immigrants through the border crossing at Otay Mesa, several miles east of San Ysidro. Richard Elizalda pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 57 months in custody, followed by three years of supervised probation. With respect to Elizalda’s sentencing, Adele Fasano, former Customs and Border Protection Director of Field Operations said, “We believe this court action today sends a strong message to those in trusted positions in federal law enforcement who would contemplate participating in corrupt and unlawful behavior. CBP enjoys a special position of national trust as the sole border enforcement agency. Our officers are highly skilled, hard-working professionals dedicated to protecting the American public. We will not tolerate corruption within our workforce and we will actively ferret out and prosecute to the fullest exte |
