Philip Haney, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) whistleblower, was found shot dead inside his car east of Sacramento in Amador County, California on Friday.

Sheriff Martin A. Ryan reported, “On February 21, 2020, at approximately 1012 hours, deputies and detectives responded to the area of Highway 124 and Highway 16 in Plymouth to the report of a male subject on the ground with a gunshot wound. Upon their arrival, they located and identified 66-year-old Philip Haney, who was deceased and appeared to have suffered a single, self-inflicted gunshot wound. A firearm was located next to Haney and his vehicle. This investigation is active and ongoing. No further details will be released at this time.”

Haney, who worked for DHS for 15 years, was an outspoken critic of Barack Obama. He also wrote the book, “See Something, Say Nothing: A Homeland Security Officer Exposes the Government’s Submission to Jihad.” Haney was planning to publish a sequel to the book.

In 2016, Haney testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, stating the DHS under Obama had ordered him to delete hundreds of files of Muslims with Islamic terrorist ties. Haney said that some attacks in the U.S. could have been prevented if those files were not deleted.

Watch Haney’s interview with Fox’s Sean Hannity:

“Most Americans were unaware of the enormous damage to morale at the Department of Homeland Security, where I worked, his condemnation caused,” Haney wrote in an article for The Hill in 2016, referring to Obama. “His words infuriated many of us because we knew his administration had been engaged in a bureaucratic effort to destroy the raw material — the actual intelligence we had collected for years, and erase those dots. The dots constitute the intelligence needed to keep Americans safe, and the Obama administration was ordering they be wiped away.”

Friends of Haney told Law Enforcement Today (LET) they spoke with Haney earlier in the week and said, “he’d never be happier.” They also insisted there’s absolutely no way he would have taken his own life and reminded LET that Haney has had many enemies since he blew the whistle on the Obama administration. On top of that, Haney was preparing to get married to his fiance later this year.

“If I am found dead, it wasn’t suicide,” Haney told his friends, who did not want to be identified.

Rep. Steve King (R-IA) claims Haney kept an archive of information as an “insurance policy” in the event he was ever found dead of an apparent suicide. King claims Haney did not commit suicide.

King tweeted,”Phil Haney was a friend & patriot. He was a target because of all he knew of Islamic terrorist coverups. He insured his life by archiving data that incriminated the highest levels of the Obama administration. Phil Haney didn’t kill himself. RIP, Phil”

Watch Haney expose the Obama administration during press conference: