The Enemies Within Providing Support for Terrorists

It's bad enough when the left downplays the threat we face from Islamic extremists, but it's far worse when our own government employees may be providing material support. The latest revelation, as reported by the Washington Times, is U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services employees may have aided Islamists extremists obtain false identification.

Wonderful.

U.S. agents accused of aiding Islamist scheme

A criminal investigations report says several U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services employees are accused of aiding Islamic extremists with identification fraud and of exploiting the visa system for personal gain.

The confidential 2006 USCIS report said that despite the severity of the potential security breaches, most are not investigated "due to lack of resources" in the agency's internal affairs department.

Again with the lack of resources. We have government coffers overflowing with tax revenue and there's not enough money to investigate cases where government employees may have provided our enemies with fake IDs?

"Two District Adjudications Officers are allegedly involved with known (redacted) Islam terrorist members," said the internal document obtained by The Washington Times.

The group "was responsible for numerous robberies and used the heist money to fund terrorist activities. The District Adjudications Officers made numerous DHS database queries to track (Alien)-File movement and check on the applicants' status for (redacted) members and associates."

Now you would think whoever blew the whistle on this would be considered a hero, right? After all, people love whistleblowers. Except, of course, when enemies of America are involved.

A USCIS employee, who wished to remain anonymous for fear of reprisal, said many of the complaints in the multipage document are as many as three years old.

"Terrorists need immigration documents to embed in our society and work here without raising alarm bells," said the employee.

"Whether through bribing an immigration officer, an employee with the department of motor vehicles, or utilizing highly effective counterfeit documents produced by the Mexican drug cartels. They are always looking for that documentation to live amongst us."

Bill Wright, spokesman with USCIS, said that he could not comment on any ongoing investigations but that USCIS "takes all internal allegations seriously."

"The investigations that are referenced are ongoing investigations that we can not comment on," Mr. Wright told The Times. "We take all of these allegations seriously, and we are acting on them. For anyone to suggest that they are ignored is blatantly wrong."

Read the rest.

UPDATE: More from Hot Air, Don Surber.