For anyone who has been paying attention, we know how bad Barack Obama was for our nation. I’ve said many times that you cannot lead what you do not love, and Obama has never exhibited the depth of patriotism or national pride befitting a U.S. president.

His first act in office was to go on a worldwide apology tour, speaking not of American exceptionalism, but American arrogance.

Indeed, during most interviews and addresses to the nation, the man could barely contain his contempt.

Time and time again, he has betrayed the values of the nation and stabbed our allies in the back (Somebody help Israel pull that dagger from between their shoulder blades, please). He’s ruined our healthcare system, made us weak in the eyes of the world, and driven up the national deficit.

Barack Obama is a treacherous, despicable slime, and the sooner he slithers back into some Chicago sewer, the better off the entire world will be.

That being said, the piece in the Hill by Philip Haney, a former Department of Homeland Security employee of 15 years, is shocking, but not hard to believe.

Haney begins by telling the account of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian Muslim – the underwear bomber – who had hoped to kill 290 people aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253.

Abdulmutallab and explosives in his underwear malfunctioned. Passengers aboard the flight subdued him until he could be arrested and taken into custody.

Immediately afterwards, President Obama placed the blame for the attempt at the feet of the intelligence community, calling it a failure to “integrate and understand” the available intelligence.

The rest of Haney’s words are deeply disturbing.

Most Americans were unaware of the enormous damage to morale at the Department of Homeland Security, where I worked, his condemnation caused. His words infuriated many of us because we knew his administration had been engaged in a bureaucratic effort to destroy the raw material—the actual intelligence we had collected for years, and erase those dots. The dots constitute the intelligence needed to keep Americans safe, and the Obama administration was ordering they be wiped away.

After leaving my 15 year career at DHS, I can no longer be silent about the dangerous state of America’s counter-terror strategy, our leaders’ willingness to compromise the security of citizens for the ideological rigidity of political correctness—and, consequently, our vulnerability to devastating, mass-casualty attack.

Just before that Christmas Day attack, in early November 2009, I was ordered by my superiors at the Department of Homeland Security to delete or modify several hundred records of individuals tied to designated Islamist terror groups like Hamas from the important federal database, the Treasury Enforcement Communications System (TECS). These types of records are the basis for any ability to “connect dots.”  Every day, DHS Customs and Border Protection officers watch entering and exiting many individuals associated with known terrorist affiliations, then look for patterns. Enforcing a political scrubbing of records of Muslims greatly affected our ability to do that. Even worse, going forward, my colleagues and I were prohibited from entering pertinent information into the database.

A few weeks later, in my office at the Port of Atlanta, the television hummed with the inevitable Congressional hearings that follow any terrorist attack. While members of Congress grilled Obama administration officials, demanding why their subordinates were still failing to understand the intelligence they had gathered, I was being forced to delete and scrub the records. And I was well aware that, as a result, it was going to be vastly more difficult to “connect the dots” in the future—especially before an attack occurs.

As the number of successful and attempted Islamic terrorist attacks on America increased, the type of information that the Obama administration ordered removed from travel and national security databases was the kind of information that, if properly assessed, could have prevented subsequent domestic Islamist attacks like the ones committed by Faisal Shahzad (May 2010), Detroit “honor killing” perpetrator Rahim A. Alfetlawi(2011); Amine El Khalifi, who plotted to blow up the U.S. Capitol (2012);Dzhokhar or Tamerlan Tsarnaev who conducted the Boston Marathon bombing (2013); Oklahoma beheading suspect Alton Nolen (2014); or Muhammed Yusuf Abdulazeez, who opened fire on two military installations in Chattanooga, Tennessee (2015).

After eight years of damage, is there anyone who still believes Barack Obama was ever concerned about the well-being of this nation?

This goes beyond incompetence.

It is treasonous.