The Obama administration deliberately scrubbed records of Muslims with terror ties who conspired to slaughter 290 innocent passengers on a plane on Christmas Day in 2009, former Department of Homeland Security official Philip Haney said Friday.

“It wasn’t accidental, passive or even ignorance. They did it deliberately and intentionally.”

On a flight from the Netherlands to Detroit, Michigan, a Nigerian Muslim attempted to detonate Northwest Airlines Flight 253 using explosives in his underwear; he was ultimately deterred by a passenger before being arrested. The Obama administration criticized national security officials for their oversight — yet Haney said he was ordered by a superior to erase information on nearly 850 records about individuals and organizations affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood network that could have helped avoid such an oversight. Haney was ordered to scrub the records the day before the attempted attack on Flight 253, and again a few weeks afterward.

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“What struck me the most about the whole scenario was the congressional inquiry and the conclusions that they drew, that we were failing to connect the dots and we were failing to use the information that we had,” Haney said on “The Laura Ingraham Show.” “And the absurd, surreal irony of it is that I was literally sitting at my desk watching the hearings on CNN while I was following the order to remove information from the very system that we used to connect the dots.”

Haney said the Holy Land trial in November 2008 “proved irrefutably that these individuals and front groups were part of a network that was essentially supporting Hamas.”

“That means that the administration knowingly ordered me to remove information tied to the Muslim Brotherhood network after the evidence was presented,” Haney told Ingraham. “It wasn’t accidental, passive or even ignorance. They did it deliberately and intentionally.”

Ingraham questioned whether alleged ties between “administration officials and the Muslim Brotherhood,” specifically one of Hillary Clinton’s aides and her deputy chief of staff, influenced top administrative officials to overlook potential terror threats.

“They had to know. This was the Department of Justice that brought this case forward. You cannot say they didn’t know. They made it a decision to move away from a law enforcement-based policy of counter-terrorism into what is now referred to as Countering Violent Extremism, which is based on an emphasis of civil rights and civil liberties,” Haney told Ingraham.

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“[The administration] didn’t just passively ignore them. They did exactly the opposite. They brought them into the administration, and the best proof of that is the CVE Steering committee.”

Ingraham said the Countering Violent Extremism Steering Committee (CVE), a predominately counter-terrorism group propelled by the Obama administration, is comprised of leaders who are, instead of combating terrorism, actually “infiltrated with the sentiment that is perpetuating Islamic jihadism.”

Ingraham pointed out that the administration renamed CVE in 2009 after its refusal to call terrorism “Islamic Jihadism.”

Three of the “so-called leaders” who were supposed to represent Muslim communities in the United States at a CVE summit in 2015 “publicly renounced the program as being discriminatory, ineffective and stigmatizing,” Haney said.

“They completely separated themselves from the very program they had helped initiate.”

“They completely separated themselves from the very program they had helped initiate,” Haney told Ingraham, noting that just a few weeks later, they did it again prior to an announcement at the UN that “the program was going to go global.”

“I saw all of it happen because I was active duty the whole time and I did my utmost to warn my chain of command that these people are not our friends,” Haney said.

More than one million illegal immigrants reportedly flooded into the country over the past two years, and the former DHS founding official voiced concern over the vulnerability at the southern border. He called on law enforcement officers to “do their jobs as at the contact points along the border.”

“If we have a 90-foot wall around the entire country but don’t have any gatekeepers, then it doesn’t do us any good,” Haney said, emphasizing the importance of law enforcement officials “protecting the life and liberty of American citizens based on well-established law.”