While the big Conservative blogs like Hot Air are busy reporting on Lope de Vega channeling governor/Casanova Mark Sanford, the rank betrayal of a man who has helped us avert terrorist attacks has gone largely unnoticed:

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS 5) ― He’s a Pakistani immigrant who helped the United States in the war on terror, but now the U.S. government wants to deport him. His lawyers are working furiously to try to allow him to stay in his adopted country.

The man, who wants to remain unidentified, said he put himself in harm’s way by working as an undercover informant in California for ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, searching out terrorist connections.

He said ICE agents told him if he worked for ICE, he could stay here indefinitely or even get a green card.

The former informant is originally from Karachi, Pakistan and has lived in the US for over 20 years, first as a student and then as a white-collar professional. But now he faces deportation back to Pakistan.

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San Francisco immigration attorney Katherine Lewis represents the informant.

“They needed his assistance,” Lewis explained. “They needed him to go wear a wire and go to an asylum interview with this notary, who had been repeatedly filing false asylum claims, but they needed the evidence to show that he was actually doing this.”

His work paid off for ICE. The government indicted Chaudhry, who pled guilty on two counts. But that wasn’t all. The man said the agents had another job for him.

The informant said, “They said go to the mosque and talk to the people and engage them in conversation to find out if there’s any activity going on like money laundering, or you know there’s terrorist activity going on in the United States.”

Which he did, working for ICE for three years.

At the same time, the informant himself had to go back to court for a deportation hearing. So he says he asked the agents if he needed a lawyer. But he said instead, the agents came to the hearing, and then gave him this
advice:

“They told me to take the deportation order. They say don’t worry about it we will take care of it and everything will be okay,” the informant recalled.
So he said he followed their advice and then waived his appeals. His attorney said the informant, understandably, believed what the agents told him.

“I mean, it’s reasonable to think that the agency that’s deporting you tells you it’s okay to go take a deportation order,” Lewis said. “We’ll take care of you, you know, it’s reasonable for…any kind of reasonable person would say, ‘Okay, that seems like a reliable source of information to say I can take this deportation order and yet you know, it’s not going to be enforced, they’re going to let me stay in the United States.'”

Now they’re sending the man back to Pakistan where people he rolled on will no doubt be waiting, having figured out who fingered them while cooling their heels in the third world. Law enforcement folks out there know that how you treat your informants determines how willing they and other potential informants will be to help in the future. Deporting a guy who wore a wire to catch people who would have killed him if he was caught will not predispose future C.I.’s to being cooperative. This guy deserves a little consideration but now that the Obama administration has decided to play softball with terrorists I.C.E. is throwing him to the wolves.

It’s an outrage clearly, but I guess Michelle Malkin and Allahpundit have a better sense than I of what sort of political stories merit attention.

There’s video at the link. h/t N.T.A.