September 12, 2001 - In a letter postmarked ONE DAY after the World Trade Center is destroyed and over 3,000 Americans are murdered by Terrorists, the U.S. Department of Justice's Immigration and Naturalization Service continues to turn their back on fighting terrorism.  They send Caryl Leventhal's husband a letter refusing to address her battle to stop the type of "terrorist friendly" INS inefficiency and corruption allowing criminals and terrorists to enter the United States.  As a former USDOJ INS employee, Caryl Leventhal was brutalized and terminated due to her whistleblower attempts at keeping this type of event from occurring.  Wake up, John Ashcroft.  Don't continue a goose-stepping cover-up for an ongoing policy of "USDOJ Uber Alles."  Make an effort to clean up your bureaucracy.  Put America First and become patriot rather than a puppet.  Acknowledge the efforts of a former USDOJ INS employee who sacrificed her health and six years of her life.  There's more to fighting your agency's corruption and ineptitude than undermining the rights of Americans.

Note: After September 11, 2001 terrorism that murders over 3,000 Americans, Lt. Colonel Michael G. Leventhal will be placed on active duty.  His mission will be to protect the American people from the terrorism brought on by the terrorist friendly actions of the US Department of Justice Immigration and Naturalization Service and apathetic elected officials.

US Immigration & Naturalization Service

Office of Internal Audit

425 I St., N.W. Room 3260

Washington, DC 20536

Sue E. Armstrong - Acting A/Director

Internal Investigations Branch

Re: Case Number 01X02908

Dear Ms. Armstrong:

Today, I celebrate Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year. Under normal circumstances, I would not use my word processor on this day. But as I look at your "investigative" letter of August 29, 2001 (but postmarked September 12, 2001), I feel compelled to respond. I could be called up for active military duty any day, and time is short.

You supplied two pages of judicial boilerplate. As the one who designed and manages the research technology in one of the ten great law libraries of America, I am very familiar with the way people like you slap the claptrap together. But your response addresses little of what I wrote US Attorney General Ashcroft about and was forwarded to your office.

I assume you were tasked with researching my allegations and responding to them. Within this context, you have done nothing more than use cliche judicial prose to avoid your responsibilities. I love the way each paragraph has an indignantly accusatory tone while at the same time avoiding the issues I clearly delineated. It’s the same tone used since Caryl filed her complaint in September 1996. A terminally ill American Citizen INS corruption fighter deserves better. And as such, I will be forwarding this letter, my previous correspondence and your non-response directly to John Ashcroft. I will be requesting that this matter be taken out of the hands of INS because of prejudice.

I am also publishing all our correspondences in Caryl’s internationally popular website www.Justice-Denied.net for the world to review. I’m certain that it will further denigrate the already shabby reputation of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. And in a few weeks, you’ll be able to find your name listed and hyperlinked to www.Justice-Denied.net in the major internet search engines. Your parents will be proud. But I digress.

Your letter arrived at a very relevant time. The Immigration and Naturalization Service bears a very real part of the blame in the September 11, 2001 terrorism that slaughtered thousands in the World Trade Center: Their subsequently confirmed sloppy processing of immigration applications and wholesale criminality in selling Green Cards created an environment where many terrorist cells could be set up in our great nation. And the brutalization of my wife and INS employee Caryl B. Leventhal in Section 245 26 Federal Plaza NYC during the years 1995-1996 because of her efforts at attempting to stop this corruption make her even more of a hero than before.

But as I told you in my follow-up letter of May 12, 2001 (copy attached so you can read it more carefully), the true nature of the beast was revealed in what happened after September 1996 when a complaint was filed within the INS Administrative Complaint Process and their attempts to stonewall allegations of discrimination because of Caryl Leventhal’s battle to stop the criminal activity and sloppy standards for processing potentially dangerous applications. In the years 1997 and 1998, all Caryl’s allegations of fraud, corruption and inefficiency were confirmed in newspaper articles (copies sent) and investigations in the US Congress.

Now let’s get down to business and review what you did not address. I’ll make it simple for you and would appreciate a reply.

Your Department is obviously not mandated to root out corruption. Rather, Internal Audit Investigations determines whether procedure is followed. In your case, you begin by rejecting an investigation into verified allegations of a compromised Administrative Complaint process. Look Sue, I’ll make it simple for you: It’s like begining an investigation of medical malpractice by refusing to address a surgeon’s removal of the wrong leg. Instead, you only evaluate his technique for amputation, basing your conclusions on his surgical skill. Do you understand now? I’m probably being too metaphorical for you to grasp this simple concept, but this is exactly what your alleged investigation did.

Let me try again by restating that in my letters, I’ve always said that to me, the most serious problems occurred during a compromised Administrative Complaint Process. It was a process that refused to accept Caryl Leventhal’s primary allegation of discrimination and brutalization because of her attempts at stopping the rampant corruption in Section 245 26 Federal Plaza NYC during the time of "Citizenship USA" in 1995-1996. Caryl NEVER wanted to leave the Administrative Complaint Process.

SHE WAS FORCED OUT through years of refusal to address or even accept this primary basis. Although properly filed, they worked feverishly to kill the fulcrum issue on which all other bases hung. And in keeping with the rules for filing suit in federal court, the compromised Administrative Complaint Process and even evidence of INS corruption and inefficiency were excluded from testimony. The jury heard no evidence about what the complaint was really about although they did hear considerable evidence of cruelty towards Caryl Leventhal.

You know this. I can’t believe you’re so intellectually inept as to not understand my original and follow-up letter. And you never address this at all although painstakingly listed and clarified, it makes up most of my correspondences.

Caryl was forced into a hostile work environment through her attempts at stopping the type of corruption and criminal activity that was subsequently exposed by the press. You have the newspaper articles because they were attached to the original letter sent to US Attorney General John Ashcroft. It was further exposed by Congress with the Cox Report of May 12, 1997. If you are unfamiliar with any of this, just go to www.Justice-Denied.net. Click on the "Site Search" button and type in the subject. And while you’re at it, I would suggest that you read the Depositions of Brenda Grant and myself. Most of the information gained was excluded from jury testimony since retaliation to cover and continue corruption was ruled "irrelevant." But you know the court game. It’s why INS wanted her in federal court where they could limit the issues of Caryl’s complaint.

Religious, Racial and Physical discrimination is peripheral. It was not bigotry in the classic sense. Caryl and I always said that. Caryl was white and practiced the Jewish faith. She was different and therefore suspect in a criminal and grossly inefficient environment. She refused to go along with these activities and was viewed as a threat. She had a physical vulnerability (Multiple Sclerosis) that could be manipulated through forced physical activity and extreme public humiliating stress. And Caryl was replaced by a more "trusted" member of the predominant ethnic group, who blithely went along with the criminal activity and gross inefficiency until everything broke in the newspapers during 1998. Again, it is this very activity that allowed people like the World Trade Center terrorists to enter America and murder thousands.

And as an afterthought to show the lying nature of those you interviewed in INS, I reference your page 2 paragraph three where you spoke with one Laurence "Larry" Zieff, Deputy Regional Counsel of INS in Burlington Vermont. Mr. Zieff states that he received a call from me in 1998 in which I informed him of this death threat. He neglected to inform you that it was the culmination of months of ugly crank calls that began during the Administrative Complaint Process when in late 1997, Peter Schilling, Contract EEO Investigator began taking Affidavits from those accused.

And the recorded death threat came in when we were actively involved with federal US EEO judge William Michael MacCauley. It began with the words "You don’t know when to let up, you fucking Jew..." The relevancy within the time line is obvious. Additionally, I would like to state – and this is confirmed in my deposition – that I never phoned Mr. Zieff about the death threat. Mr. Zieff was sent a Certified letter. This letter with certified receipt is also published in www.Justice-Denied.net. It was Mr. Zieff who phoned me and in a very mechanical way, said "The Justice Department doesn’t sanction this type of behavior."

My response to him was, "Larry, I know what these people are thinking ... middle age, urban, Jewish, punky. But you’d better get on the horn to 26 Federal Plaza and have them stop upsetting my wife, because if they get within legal range, I'm going to shoot them." Within three days of my telling this to Mr. Zieff, all crank calls and threats stopped cold! And I wish to emphasize that Mr. Zieff NEVER told me to contact the police. Again, had you taken my suggestion to review www.Justice-Denied.net, you would find everything verified with documents and certifications.

I consider your alleged "investigation" to have been one-sided. Not only does it fail to address any of the major issues of obstruction during the bogus Administrative Complaint Process that forced us into a trial to keep things alive, but you blithely accept unsubstantiated statements from INS employees as fact. It is severely flawed to the point of being ludicrous in jurisprudence and obvious in its attempt at shutting me up. As a continuance of the five year tradition, the Immigration and Naturalization Service does not wish to expose the ugliness in a series of events leaving a brave woman totally disabled and thrown to the bureaucratic wolves.

Caryl’s manager Brenda Grant even denied her accumulated sick pay, in spite of Caryl following all regulations. This was confirmed in depositions and court testimony of Brenda Grant. And Caryl never received a refund on the contributed portion of her retirement plan. This is another matter that you never address, which means that the US Department of Justice and Immigration and Naturalization Service reached into the pockets of a terminally ill woman and robbed her.

I wish to reiterate what was stated to INS attorneys and the US Attorney: This has never a money issue. It is principle. And while I always felt she deserved a plaque in recognition of her efforts to root out corruption, she and I always told everyone involved that a simple apology would suffice as a goodwill gesture that the USDOJ INS intended to make changes.

But I must admit that I am curious to see how you will respond to this letter and I would appreciate a reply. Needless to say, your not responding will be publicized (along with your name and position) on the internet for all to see. On the other hand, a renewed and more professional investigation will also be fully publicized in its entirety. There might even be some conciliatory words for the US Department of Justice and Immigration and Naturalization service.

These are dangerous times for our great nation. I would hate for the INS to continue in its pattern of contributing to terrorism in America through an obtuse penchant for not cleaning up its act. I would hate for it to continue breaking the heart of a slowly dying woman by being too arrogant to say "we’re sorry."

Very truly yours,

MICHAEL G. LEVENTHAL

cc: John Ashcroft, US Attorney General

Note: As part of the gang of USDOJ enablers of the terrorism that murders 3,000 innocent Americans on September 11th 2001, Laurence M. Zieff is subsequently made Assistant Regional Counsel for the new Department (Agency) of Homeland Security.  You can find him at 70 Kimball Avenue, Room 103 South Burlington, Vermont.  Was it worth it, Larry?  (To mask their inefficiency, Immigration enforcement functions have been placed within the Directorate of Border and Transportation Security [combined with Customs] and the immigration service functions are placed into a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services section.)