It just keeps getting worse. At first we were told that she had been vetted by two agencies. Apparently Obama Administration officials were hoping to cover up the magnitude of this failure. In any case, Tashfeen Malik stands as a witness to the impossibility of vetting for jihadis.
“U.S. missed ‘red flags’ with San Bernardino shooter,” CBS News, December 14, 2015:
As investigators focus on what or who motivated San Bernardino shooters Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, to open fire at the Inland Regional Center, a report about Malik’s comments on social media before she moved to the U.S. is raising questions about how thoroughly she was vetted.
Law enforcement sources confirmed to CBS News that Malik made radical postings on Facebook as far back as 2012 — the year before she married Farook and moved to the U.S., reports CBS News correspondent Carter Evans. According to a report in the New York Times, Malik spoke openly on social media about her support for violent jihad and said she wanted to be a part of it. But none of these postings were discovered when Malik applied for a U.S. K-1 fiancé visa.
“If you’re going to start doing a deeper dive into somebody and looking at their social media postings or other things, you really want to focus your effort on the high-risk traveler, the person that you’re really worried about being a threat to the United States,” said James Carafano, national security expert and vice president of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy at the Heritage Foundation. “The question is, how do you identify them?”
Malik was not identified as a threat despite being interviewed at the U.S. Embassy in Pakistan and vetted by five different government agencies that checked her name and picture against a terror watch list and ran her fingerprints against two databases.…

Matthieu Baudin says
Seems it really is an impossible task to vet out potential Jihadi Terrorists. At a time of extreme threat, such as the present time, our best way around the problem is to actively discriminate against the recruitment of Muslims in key areas of employment and in immigration intake. It should be possible to go about this with a cool head and in such a way as to avoid an unnecessarily prejudiced attitude towards individuals.
Sam says
Good Luck with discriminating the enemy in our liberal culture!
Peter says
U.S. government counter-“violent extremism” policy: hear no Islamic evil, see no Islamic evil, speak no Islamic evil because there can be no Islamic evil. Reality begs to differ.
Oppressaphobe says
This assumes they are not already there.
Too slow at the draw America.
wildjew says
National security correspondent for FOX News Channel, Jennifer Griffin, looks like she believes in Obama’s strategy to defeat ISIS.
Tartarus says
That face makes me want to punch my monitor.
mortimer says
Terrorists are chosen because they have clean records. No one will suspect them. They can go under the radar, then explode in violence unexpectedly.
Organized crime similarly uses naïve innocents to perform false flag operations or mule operations.
A perfect terrorist has no obvious features of a terrorist.
somehistory says
The question is, how do you identify them?”
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The question has a simple answer that is found to be unacceptable. John Quincy Adams had the answer.
It is islam that is causing these people to want to kill, kill, kill and then whine about being victims of people looking at them and showing dislike or fear.
They really wish to be feared, but not if they are not also going to be obeyed will they admit to this wish.
So, ask them if they are moslim. If they are, it isn’t safe to admit them. If they deny being moslim, then give them a test they can’t refuse….have them put on a cross and curse the fake prophet to hell.
The wild beast of islam, child of satan, will do anything and everything to get everyone in its grip.
(Revelation 13)
Carolyne says
Your comments gave me another idea. The consulate officials should do what has been the traditional way to identify vampires (At least in movies.) Hold up a cross and if the subjects shrinks from it, you’ve got yourself a Muslim.
mike ryan says
Disgusting. I live a little more than an hour away from where this abomination transpired; and many of my co-workers have connections with the center at which it happened, either professionally, or through children who are the recipients of its services.
Just Friday, a local man pitched a firebomb into the mosque down in Coachella, east of Palm Springs.
Horrible. Terrorism begets its natural response from the victims and would-be victims in the form of violence, fear and hatred. By responding with this sort of behavior, however, we merely play into the radicals’ hands.
I hope and pray that we keep level heads throughout the days to come.
Carolyn says
Level heads? LEVIL HEADS? Non–Muslims rarely retaliate against Muslims for the behavior of other Muslims and likely the fire-bomb thrower was another Muslim who wanted to emphasize the “Victim” philosophy, encouraged by the US Attorney General.
It would be extremely difficult to grin and bear it if one of your relatives, a husband, wife, child, had been murdered by these two barbarians. You are asking the wrong people to be level headed,. Try it with a Muslim.
PRCS says
“Malik made radical postings on Facebook”
“Malik spoke openly…about her support for violent jihad and…wanted to be a part of it.”
Her postings are only “radical ” to those ignorant of the subject and liars–and to the public as a result.
katnis says
The story of her entry into the USA gets more and more ridiculous. CLEARLY, we should not let one more muslim into the country. CLEARLY, we should remove the ones that are already here.
I like the thought of buying muslims a ticket back to wherever they came from. That’s cheaper than putting them on public assistance for the rest of their lives. It’s also cheaper than all the FBI surveillance and cleanup after their inevitable acts of terrorism.
More Ham Ed says
A must-watch NEW Pat Condell video:
We Want The Truth
Sergio says
Well, it was obvious that this was going to happen. If you are a US official who happens to know that a VISA applicant supports Sharia, you will probably say nothing about it. Otherwise, your own bosses would reprimand you for being an Islamophobe. The same goes for the refugees. Even if they entered the US singing “we will conquer this land in the name of Islam” the US officials would allow them to come in, since vetting them would be deemed religious persecution.
Guamanian Pie says
ugly bleached blond battleaxe. At least she’s dead and won’t be costing the taxpayers money to defend her worthless butt.
gravenimage says
She isn’t bleached blond–that’s her Hijab.
Oppressaphobe says
There’s only one answer to the problem:
IMPEACH OBAMA-just start the process immediately
And thereby free up the society to talk openly about the problem.
As long as Obama is UNCHALLENGED, this running and hiding mentality will prevail.
HE IS THE REASON WE ARE NOT ALLOWED TO DO WHAT MUST BE DONE.
DID HE NOT CAUSE SAN BERNARDIO BY HIS LACK OF ACTION??? SHOULDN’T THE GUY HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED? DID OBAMA SHUT DOWN THE INVESTIGATION?? DID OBAMA STOP THE K-1 VISA PROGRAM AFTER THE FACT?? NOT EVEN!!!
Starting impeachment would shut his operation down enough to disarm the rest of his administration. It would rattle Loretta Lynch enough to stop her from the next trick they have up their sleeve for Americans.
OR
we can just sit and wait for the next attack. Your choice men(?).
Carolyne says
Remember. we must be level-headed about this. What nonsense. Being level headed apparently means to some that we must take no action about this or any future murderous barbaric attack in the US.
Your idea is better. Obama is a Muslim and needs to be impeached for “High crimes and misdemeanors.”
Jim Peters says
Now we see that Jeh Johnson, Sec of Homeland security, told his dept to ignore social media postings because it might invade Malik’s privacy. They were ordered to stand down. Sound familiar?
Carolyne says
Benghazi comes to mind.
Angemon says
My 2 cents:
$0.01 – Is anyone from any of those agencies taking any sort of heat for the failure of the vetting process?
$0.01 – Terror watch lists only tell about past behaviour, they can’t divine the future.
Oppressaphobe says
Who is this fictitious “ANYONE” if not US?
We have to scream non-stop, day and night because we have so much fog out there to get through.
People’s minds have been managed with great skill (to quote Bob Dylan).
You know that the only reason Obama gave his pansy speech (I liked his tie though) is because people like us are creating some friction and threaten to slow his operations down.
Does anybody realize what he can do in a whole year??
I am going to have a B.I.G. PARTY when he leaves–Barach Is Gone.
Lenny Thetruth says
The vetting process is a joke. If you look into the background of almost anybody, you will find something objectionable. It may be a little incident, or a speech years ago, or a Facebook comment, but we all have a messy closet.
Now, lets look at our government. What are they adding to the pronblem? Every bureaucrat has a job to do and will do no more. They have to make their boss happy, but not so much, their coworker. If that boss has an interest in the outcome of their work, and it is not related to their work, that is fine. But, if their interest is vested, one way or another, there is no fairness. We would not leave the running of a prison up to a committee of prisoners. Yet, we are clearly leaving the interests of Muslims up to Muslims or their supporters. We can start at the Whire House. We can look at the State Dept. We can look at Immigration agencies. All run by Muslims. New judges sworn in, using a Koran instead of a bible. So, who, can say this procedure is honest? Who can say it is fair to most Americans? Obama? Kerry? Killary?
Why do I fear the abrogation of my First Amendment rights? Is it because those rights are protected by the Second Amendment? Why does anybody feel they can take away any of my rights. Well, the answer may lie in the press. Newspapers can make a point, but these days they are trying to make a persuasive arguement. That is not their job. They should be made to tell the truth without any bias. Yet, they have an editorial page, which can defeat that purpose. Those who read the New York Times, or look overseas at the BBC will see the slant. But, realize this, the government does not tell them that they are wrongfully reporting, because yellow journalism works for them.
Jim Peters says
In an honorable government, people would be resigning now. Haven’t heard a word
gravenimage says
Lenny Thetruth wrote:
The vetting process is a joke. If you look into the background of almost anybody, you will find something objectionable. It may be a little incident, or a speech years ago, or a Facebook comment, but we all have a messy closet.
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Sure, Lenny–to a point. For instance, I’m deeply embarrassed that I voted for Jimmy Carter in 1980 as a teenager in my first presidential election. I’m sure various people here have things they said as rebellious college students that they’d disavow now.
But Tashfeen Malik was no kid at twenty-seven–and what she was writing wasn’t some callow critique of society or penchant for naive idealism, but instead *support for violent Jihad*.
We don’t need to keep everyone out who has ever entertained a couple of wonky ideas or said something off the cuff–that would be most of us, even the wisest of us.
But keeping out someone who openly avows murdering us in the name of a violent supremacist creed? In a sane world, this would just be common sense.
? says
And no one is asking for “vetting” procedure reform?