A whistleblower surgeon faces persecution by the federal government for telling the truth about secret surgeries on children. Dr. Eithan Haim, 33, exposed that Texas Children’s Hospital, despite announcing the end of its sex-change procedures, secretly continued performing transgender surgeries and treatments on minors.
National Review writes that after trying to keep his head down by anonymously leaking evidence of the procedures to a journalist, Haim decided to go public in January in an effort to protect himself from retaliation by Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services officials.
“After understanding how far this corruption went, I had no other option but to take the story public and fight back,” Haim told National Review. “If I don’t do this now, I’m going to pass on this conflict to my children. That’s something I will not tolerate.”
National Review reports on the details:
On June 23, the day of his graduation from surgical residency last year, two HHS agents showed up to Haim’s home and said they were investigating a case regarding medical records. Haim recalled his mind went blank at that moment.
“There was this deep visceral part of me that knew exactly what was happening — that they were there because we had challenged the political ideology, and they were there to make an example out of me,” Haim said.
He proceeded to invite the federal agents inside. They requested an interview with Haim, but his wife advised him not to speak without a lawyer present.
On their way out the door, the agents handed Haim a target letter from the DOJ. The letter, signed by Tina Ansari, assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Texas, notified the surgeon that he was a potential target in a criminal investigation. The letter did not provide specifics as to what those violations were.
Believing it to be a corrupt investigation, he decided to fight the case. Haim said he’s seen how the DOJ has weaponized itself against American citizens in recent years; however, he didn’t anticipate the level of corruption that would later be uncovered.
After meeting with the DOJ prosecutor multiple times, Haim’s attorneys at Burke Law Group decided to blow the whistle to Congress about instances of blatant misconduct in the case…
…In the letter dated January 24, Haim’s lawyers asked Representatives Jim Jordan (R., Ohio) and Chip Roy (R., Texas) to lead a probe into “the Department of Justice and the weaponization of the federal government” as it concerns their committees’ work. Jordan serves as chairman of the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, and Roy is chairman of the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government.
With the congressional request, the whistleblower hopes the DOJ and HHS will be held accountable.
Haim still has not been charged with a crime, although the legal process so far has cost him over $250,000.
