{"id":66470,"date":"2016-06-23T09:00:35","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T13:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=66470"},"modified":"2016-06-22T19:53:57","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T23:53:57","slug":"irene-martin-gets-a-valor-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=66470","title":{"rendered":"Irene Martin gets a valor award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2016\/06\/22\/immigration-boss-who-barred-feds-from-terror-suspect-up-for-award-but-agency-wont-say-why.html?intcmp=hpbt1\">Fox News<\/a> reports that Homeland Security Department employee, Irene Martin is set to receive an award for valor from the department. According to Fox, the award is usually given to employees who saved lives, like from a burning car or something, but Martin hasn&#8217;t done any of that stuff. In fact she was blamed by the Office of the Inspector General for running a block on an investigation into Enrique Marquez, the fellow who gave weapons to the San Bernadino terrorists.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Martin was blamed for touching off a turf war that came to light when whistle blowers told Senate Homeland Security Chairman Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., about the tense, Dec. 3, 2015 incident. It came a day after Tashfeen Malik and Syed Farook killed 14 and wounded 22 in the terror attack. Authorities believe Enrique Marquez, who had an appointment with Martin&#8217;s staff when the authorities showed up, gave them the guns used in the attack.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The nomination from Martin\u2019s superiors was stunning to staff members because it was announced just days after a June 1 DHS Inspector General\u2019s report found Martin improperly hindered the work of five armed agents on site just 24 hours after the attack.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Department of Homeland Security officials declined to say what Martin did to merit consideration for the award, which is described as \u201cthe highest departmental recognition for extraordinary acts of valor by an employee or group, occurring while on or off duty\u201d and is reserved for \u201cthose who have demonstrated extraordinary courage in a highly dangerous, life-threatening situation or emergency under extreme stress and involving a specific act of valor, such as saving another person\u2019s life or property.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When Fox asked the department for the event that triggered the award for Martin, the department said that they should file a FIOA request, so we may never know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News reports that Homeland Security Department employee, Irene Martin is set to receive an award &hellip; <a title=\"Irene Martin gets a valor award\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=66470\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Irene Martin gets a valor award<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dumbass-bullshit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}