DHS WHISTLEBLOWER UPDATE:
Please see my statement about @DHSgov efforts to smear my name in order to deflect from responding to serious #whistleblower allegations.
I am not deterred.
1/Text is as follows:
In order to fully protect our whistleblower client Brian Murphy, it is necessary for the legal team to obtain security clearances at the TS/SCI level. I have held a USGOVT security clearance since 2002, and have received authorized access to classified ..
2/ ... information since the mid-1990s. Rather than timely process my clearance, DHS has now embarked upon an effort to publicly smear my good name with antiquated information. In 1999, I was publicly rebuked by a U.S. District Judge as part of a FOIA lawsuit against the CIA.
3/No classified information was involved. Every security clearance I have received has fully adjudicated this decision, which was so long ago that I don't believe any agency even considers it any longer.
4/I have had authorized access to TS/SCI on numerous occasions in the last twenty years, during both Democrat and Republican Administrations, and had no difficulties being granted access.
5/It is sad to see that @DHSgov believes the way to silence a lawfully protected DHS #whistleblower is to smear his legal counsel.
I should also note that the D.C. Bar counsel, which investigated the issue, did not agree with the Court's views of the circumstances.
6/Finally, all of this info has been part of the public record for two decades. This smearing effort reveals a great deal about DHS leadership as not even the White House nor any GOP member of Congress raised this last year as an issue during my representation of the IC WBer.
END/I call upon @DHSgov to expeditiously and properly process my security clearance access so that the serious allegations against it by Mr. Murphy can be assessed by the relevant oversight authorities.
Stillman v. CIA, 319 F.3d 546 (D.C.Cir. 2003)
District court ordered Govt to conduct requisite background check on Mr. Zaid in order to determine whether he could be trusted with access to classified manuscript.
"The Government did so and found that Mr. Zaid was trustworthy."
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