The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency has allegedly gone after an ICE agent who told the media in March about new quotas for immigration arrests.

 

In another example, the Department of Defense is restricting media access to military officers following General Stanley McChrystal’s comments to Rolling Stone magazine, and the Pentagon has gone after an Army intelligence officer who leaked a controversial video of a U.S. air strike in Iraq.

 

“Some of these prosecutions wouldn’t have happened when [George W.] Bush was president, because there would have been a more partisan backlash,” Stephen Kohn, executive director of the National Whistleblowers Center, told The Washington Post. “The problem when you have a Democratic president—it’s not like Obama is signing the indictment—but it mutes the criticism.”

-Noel Brinkerhoff

 

ICE's Whistle-blower 'Witch Hunt' Must Stop, Union Says (by Ed O’Keefe, Washington Post)

Immigration Officials Set Deportation Quotas, Shifting Focus from Dangerous Illegal Immigrants (by Noel Brinkerhoff, AllGov)