Philip B. Haney, a founding U.S. Department of Homeland Security employee and later terrorism analyst at the National Targeting Center, wrote that DHS officials ordered him in 2009 to “scrub” several hundred TECS records involving people he said were connected to designated Islamist groups, including Hamas. In his 2016 book, *See Something, Say Nothing*, Haney alleged that the Obama administration concealed Islamic-terrorism activity; he repeated related claims before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee. The source establishes that Haney made these allegations, but does not provide independent evidence confirming that the records were improperly removed or that a coordinated cover-up occurred.
Haney contacted the *Washington Examiner* in November 2019 about a planned second book that he said would identify officials involved. He was found dead from a single gunshot wound on February 21, 2020, in an Amador County, California, park-and-ride lot. Representative Steve King and others promoted theories that he had been murdered because of his disclosures, but the Amador County Sheriff’s Office, assisted by FBI crime-scene investigators and analysts, officially ruled the death a suicide in 2022. No murder finding, confirmed cover-up, or documented regulatory enforcement action is identified in the source.
