Who Was Michael Maxwell Protecting? Who Was Protecting Michael Maxwell?

 

On October 19th 2007 Sara Carter, an investigative reporter who had deservedly earned national recognition for doing some great work on Border and Immigration issues over the previous few years, responded to an earlier message I sent her in the day. We were both trying to figure out Michael Maxwell, the former USCIS Director of  Security & Investigations, not only what he was up to but exactly who he was?  He had come out of USCIS as a whistleblower in 2006 with a lot of fanfare and media attention, but over the course a year and a half, his actions and story had become terribly muddled. Was he to blame? Were others? His claim to Sara in October 2007 that he was protecting me, “Cindy and everyone” and Sara herself became another bizarre twist in his his increasingly bizarre tale. In truth, by October 2007 “everyone” he mentions in the email had already been left exposed and damaged in some way by working with him.  So who was Michael Maxwell really protecting? Or, maybe more to the point: Who was protecting Michael Maxwell?

Who was Michael Maxwell?

A whistleblower forced into silence? A whistleblower who ran away and left his fellow whistleblowers to be targeted and destroyed by corrupt DC insiders, Democrats and Republicans alike? A whistleblower who blew the whistle on himself and got away with it, i.e., a fake whistleblower? Not a whistleblower at all, but a cleaner sent to clean up the mess of senior DHS, USCIS officials?

Even Sara Carter couldn’t track down the truth, she tried, maybe someday she will in a forthcoming book? Maybe the FBI will finally finish its IA investigation, and answer the questions I asked Sara Carter 13 years ago, in an Oct 19, 2007 email:

“Sara,

Simple question to put to Congressman Royce / Culberson what happens if Mike Maxwell is not who he said he was and has regularly leaked information to the press? Do you know if and when Mike became a naturalized citizen? Do the Congressmen? Do they know where such records are and who controls them? I’m just asking here . What are they giving him access to? Why are they giving him access when they haven’t checked him out?

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Sometimes one has to admit one’s mistakes. I made a mistake in trusting Michael Maxwell when he first came out and was testifying on the Hill. He was repeating many of the reports of fraud and corruption I had already heard from USCIS adjudicators for almost a year.

After he found out I was trying to help the USCIS adjudicators he approached me and ended up asking if I could facilitate some contacts in former CIA circles since I worked with some for over 20 years. Thinking that he was on the up and up and a good guy trying to help an unusually large and diverse group of individuals willing to come forward from USCIS and report the massive fraud and corruption in our legal immigration system I started reaching out on his behalf.

But a funny thing happened, the guy in charge of security and investigations of the work force in charge of vetting who entered, stayed  legally into the country was himself hard to vet, while the whistleblowers he was working with and their supporting witnesses were suddenly getting picked off one by one.  I was forced to pull up, go into a stall and do a controlled crash of 20 years of work. And then he just seem to disappear and nobody, and I mean nobody in DC seemed interested in looking for him or asking him: What was in the “black box”?

For the Record Before Fake Whistlblowers Became All the Rage, Real Ones Warned America About What Was To Come

By Douglas J. Brown

In 2005 Dave Dambrosio, Julie Dicks, Cindy Dennis-Schappe never asked for anonymity, nor a security detail, they simply asked to be heard; the misconduct and problems they reported to be addressed and fixed. They were not alone at the National Benefits Center in Lee’s Summit, Missouri. They were among a score of individuals who expressed an uneasiness with management at the USCIS facility and concerns over how immigration benefits were being screened at the site. Collectively the group had decades of law enforcement experience and military service. Fifteen years forward and much of what they warned about, which was not addressed and fixed by their superiors, or their superiors in DC, has had tragic and devastating consequences for Americans across the country.

Today at least one of the issues they raised was addressed at the level and with the concern and urgency it cries out for the tragedy of human trafficking.

The USCIS Whistleblowers that Congress and the Media Blew Off

By Douglas J. Brown

The Whistleblowers “Time” Forgot. As Time Magazine and others celebrated the fake whistleblowers of 2019, will History and America finally recognize the real whistleblower heroes who risked everything in defense of their country?

Escape From Kappert Isle

What Ever Happened to the USCIS Whistleblowers Whom Grassley Forgot?

Part One: A Storm’s Ablowin’?

On February 23 2006 Senator Charles Grassley wrote to Emilio T. Gonzalez, the Director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) concerning Mike Maxwell the former Director of OSI at USCIS.

Senator Grassley expressed his concern that Mr Maxwell’s rights as a whistleblower to Congress were being violated by officials within USCIS and DHS.

“In light of Maxwell’s attempts to report serious and systematic problems within USCIS and to Congress, his resignation also raises questions for USCIS about whistleblower protection issues.”

However, Senator Grassley’s letter also identified  other government employees, USCIS benefit adjudicators, who were coming forward to him and Congress with revelations and evidence just as disturbing and unsettling as that which the Senator attributed to Mr Maxwell, in fact, Grassley and his staff knew and understood, that many of the adjudicators’ reports…

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Where is Mifsud?

Kidnapped? Sleeping with the fishes? Or singing to Barr?

The 1st Grammy’s Record and Song of the Year

The Espionage-Entertainment Complex

By Douglas J. Brown

Just as Dwight D. Eisenhower’s presidency left America with a dire warning of the potential danger to our Republic of the Military-Industrial Complex, perhaps Donald J. Trump’s presidency will leave us with a justified fear and loathing of a new and even more dangerous threat to the survival of the Republic, the Espionage-Entertainment Complex.

And the Nominees for the Benedicts during our current revolutionary era are?

An early favorite in the category of Former Spooks Gone Bad is a Washington Post, NYT and Hollywood favorite –Spycraft Entertainment

Other rumored categories and nominees are reported dead dropped near this location:

 

 

President Trump Doesn’t Need Congress to Fund the Wall

The Witch Hunt the Dems Don’t Want

By Douglas J. Brown

He simply needs to repurpose our legal immigration system to serve the needs of its true clients: America’s citizens, rather than whom it serves today: foreign nationals, citizens of other countries who want to become American citizens.

The United States Citizenship and Immigration System USCIS is self-funding. Those funds and its funding source should be used to protect the integrity of US Citizenship and the process of becoming one rather than a means to destroy the very concept of American citizenship. If everyone in the world is a US citizen which the proponents of open borders, i.e. no borders, essentially advocate for, then the concept of an American citizen is a null set, it’s an empty concept, a non-entity.

President Trump doesn’t need to pull an Obama and bypass both legislative and regulatory routes with an imperious Presidential Decree such as DACA. He doesn’t need to siphen money away from DoD and Secretary Mad Dog Mattis. He simply needs to file a notice in the Federal Register that fees paid to the US Gov’t for immigration processing and benefits fees will be going up 100%, 200%, 300%  whatever % is required to pay for and finish the Wall in 2 years, that’s it. One regulation with details to follow. A regulation that completely revamps the economics of the immigration industry which is right now aimed at destroying U.S. Citizenship to an economic model which is forged to preserve and protect it.

Currently USCIS is a primarily a processing plant, a mill for turning out Democratic voters, voters who will act as an accelerant in what has become a sort of giant Burning Man event for torching US Citizenship. The current USCIS prime directive was concocted during the Clinton Administration when USCIS was part of legacy INS.

Over the years USCIS senior management and most of its workforce has been hired and programmed  to insure that USCIS is more a voter mill rather than a screening agency to protect the rights and privileges of American citizenship that is still the case two years into the Trump Administration. The President should ask himself why that is. Personnel is policy.

One regulatory change, one regulatory overhaul could dramatically change the economic, political and social incentives built into our immigration system. The NGOs, the legal establishment, the economic infrastructure of our immigration system all needs to be turned on its head and with a creative , innovative, an American citizen centric regulatory overhaul it can be done and a Wall can be built.

And who knows, maybe the FBI can be called in to help?

 

Recently Found in a Frederick MD Home? In a Black Box?

 

 

The Murder of CIA Officer Freddie Woodruff in Georgia Finally Laid to Rest?

Was Freddie Woodruff the 1st casualty of the reset of the Cold War? Thanks to a new Book by Michael Pullara  The Spy Who Was Left Behind, a better understanding of the August 8, 1993 murder of the CIA officer in Georgia is finally available. However, the book does raise a question not fully answered but hinted at in the text and title: Why was Freddie Woodruff murdered?

Perhaps the author might rethink the title because what Pullara’s investigation suggest is that while Woodruff might seem to be the spy left behind, not so much after Pullara admirable work, Pullara also raises a “serious theory”  that Woodruff was, in fact, likely killed because of the spy networks and operations left behind by the KGB after the collapse of the USSR in 1991, which I confess, after working in Russia at the time, I always believed was the major conflict left unsettled after the collapse.

Felix Sater, A Hero of Our Time/Герой нашего времени ?

By Douglas J. Brown

Is Felix Sater an American Hero? If what he and his lawyer claim is true is true, then yes  he is. There is no doubt that he was a source, a CI for the DOJ and the US IC. The length DOJ went to keep his file sealed was extraordinary. There’s little doubt in my mind that Sater provided some valuable intelligence to the US. However, there’s also little doubt in my mind that the Russians probably assisted or signed off on almost everything that Sater may have passed on, including advanced Russian military technology. So the right question to ask about Felix Sater is : Is it possible that Sater was an intelligence asset for both the US and Russia? And if so, kto kovo?

Felix Sater is a bit of scoundrel, charming but a подлец . He made millions scamming investors and then was allowed to keep it in a plea deal that triggered an epic legal battle. The lawyers for the victims rightfully questioned: why Sater  was allowed to profit from his crimes? To this day it still leaves a cloud over the DOJ and FBI dealings with Sater. But a question that wasn’t raised, as far as I know, about the DOJ in effect funding Sater’s CI work with victims’ money was:  what were the counterintelligence issues taken into consideration if any by DOJ lawyers when launching Felix Sater Informant Inc.? Any concerns by DOJ lawyers about funding an individual with ties to Russian organized crime? And if not, why not? Was Andrew Weissmann involved in the plea deal and ‘ funding’ ?

Other questions? What procedures were in place when Sater started to work with let’s say an American company unaware of his background or his funding source?  Would they inform the American company that they would like to leverage, perhaps even put at risk the company’s assets and resources? Sater didn’t just work as advisor for the Trump Organization he also was an advisor to Neil Bush’s company. Did the Trump Organization get the same consideration that the Bush company may have been given?

 

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