{"id":67373,"date":"2016-08-10T06:45:09","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T10:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=67373"},"modified":"2016-08-11T08:13:09","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T12:13:09","slug":"about-that-san-bernardino-valor-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67373","title":{"rendered":"About that San Bernardino \u201cValor Award\u201d . . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago, Jonn wrote about Irene Martinez \u2013 chief of an USICS office in San Bernardino \u2013 being nominated to receive the DHS \u201cAward for Valor\u201d<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0 However, at the time USICS was reluctant to disclose precisely what it was that Ms. Martinez had done to merit nomination to receive the award.<\/p>\n

Well, now we know.\u00a0 Apparently DHS has finally<\/span> responded to a FOIA request concerning the matter.<\/p>\n

During the San Bernardino terrorist shootings that occurred about a mile and a half away from her facility, Ms. Martinez first \u201cwarned [her] employees to be very careful and to be vigil (sic) about their surroundings\u201d.\u00a0 While the facility was on lockdown, she then went out to the parking lot and fetched one of her employees who was sitting in his car after returning from lunch, bringing him inside.<\/p>\n

She afterwards \u201csoothed members of the public who were temporarily stranded in the building.\u201d\u00a0 According to the paperwork nominating her for the DHS Award for Valor, her actions that day \u201cdemonstrated not only her professionalism and exceptional leadership, but also her compassion and caring for her employees and the public we serve.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yes, I\u2019m serious.\u00a0 That\u2019s really why she was nominated<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0 The material in quotes above are reportedly direct quotes from the award nomination paperwork.<\/p>\n

Now, I don\u2019t know about you \u2013 but something strikes me as a bit odd here.\u00a0 Previous recipients of the same award apparently received the award for actions such as confronting armed criminals, or for rescuing persons from sinking ships or burning cars.\u00a0 You know, for situations in which actual honest-to-God bravery was required<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Ms. Martinez, in contrast, was apparently nominated for the award for nothing more than taking those routine actions any supervisor would be expected to take during a facility lockdown.\u00a0 In short:\u00a0 she was nominated simply for doing her freaking job.<\/p>\n

Oh, and in case anyone’s forgotten:\u00a0 Ms. Martinez also apparently has a rather odd view of what consititutes \u201cdoing her job\u201d.\u00a0 It turns out that Ms. Martinez was quite uncooperative when 5 DHS LE personnel came to her facility the next day looking for a person of interest in connection with the previous day\u2019s terrorist shooting.\u00a0 That person of interest – Enrique Marquez \u2013 was believed at the time to have supplied the two terrorist bastards who\u2019d perpetrated the previous day\u2019s attack the weapons they\u2019d used.\u00a0 Marquez was scheduled for an appointment at Ms. Martinez\u2019s facility, but was a no-show.<\/p>\n

Ms. Martinez delayed those 5 Federal LE agents for approximately 1 1\/2 hours in the performance of their duties, apparently for bureaucratic \u201cturf war\u201d reasons.\u00a0 She then outright lied to DHS IG investigators about her actions that day when the matter was later investigated.<\/p>\n

It seems to me that both of those later actions by Ms. Martinez may well qualify as crimes \u2013 the former possibly as interfering with a Federal investigation (18 USC 111<\/em><\/a>, or 18 USC 1512(b)3<\/em><\/a>) and the latter as giving a false statement to Federal investigators (18 USC 1001<\/a><\/em>).\u00a0 But it doesn\u2019t seem as if anyone at DHS much cares about that.<\/p>\n

But they sure seem to want to give the lady an award for doing nothing more than her job.\u00a0 Go figure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago, Jonn wrote about Irene Martinez \u2013 chief of an USICS office in … About that San Bernardino \u201cValor Award\u201d . . . .<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,220,213,185,238,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-the-floggings-will-continue-until-morale-improves","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-crime","category-government-incompetence","category-legal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67373","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\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}