Philip Haney

Philip B. Haney (July 9, 1953 – February 21, 2020) was an American U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) national security official and whistleblower. Haney was found dead with a gunshot wound in 2020, He wrote in 2016 that he was ordered by the DHS in 2009 to "scrub" several hundred records of individuals tied to designated Islamist terror groups like Hamas from the federal database Treasury Enforcement Communications System (TECS). He published a book titled See Something, Say Nothing: A Homeland Security Officer Exposes the Government's Submission to Jihad the same year, which alleged a cover-up of Islamic terrorist activity by the Obama administration.

Haney is reported to have contacted the Washington Examiner in November 2019 about his plans to publish a second book, which would "go into the deep swamp and name names."