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U.S. lets in four times as many suspected terrorists as it keeps out

Dec 21, 2015 4:56 pm By Robert Spencer

The solution: bring in more Syrian refugees. There will be jihadists among them, sure, but only greasy Islamophobes care about that.

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“U.S. lets in four times as many suspected terrorists as it keeps out,” by Marc A. Thiessen, Washington Post, December 21, 2015:

The Obama administration insists that it is safe to admit 10,000 Syrian refugees because we have “very extensive screening procedures” in place. “It involves our intelligence community, our national counterterrorism center, extensive interviews, vetting them against all the available information,” deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes recently declared.

He left out one fact: Those screening procedures are so broken that, State Department records show, they let in more than four times as many suspected terrorists as they keep out.

The State Department admitted to Congress last week that it had revoked the visas of 9,500 individuals since 2001 who were believed to have either engaged in terrorist activities or were associated with a terrorist organization. Think about what that means: Nearly 10,000 people considered too dangerous to enter the United States because of suspected terrorist activity or association were mistakenly granted visas to lawfully enter the country. They successfully penetrated our defenses, beat our screening system and got their hands on U.S. visas.

Worse still, after officials caught their mistake and revoked the visas after the fact, they lost track of the visa holders. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, pressed Michele Thoren Bond, assistant secretary for the Bureau of Consular Affairs, to explain what had happened to the 9,500. She replied: “I don’t know.”

We don’t know where these 9,500 individuals are, or how many of them — if any — are in the United States today.

That’s bad enough. But the story gets worse.

An examination of State Department records by American Enterprise Institute researcher Justin Lang found that since 2001, the State Department had denied visas to just 2,231 individuals because the applicant was suspected of terrorist ties or activity. Yet during that same period, the State Department granted U.S. visas to 9,500 people who it later figured out posed a terrorist threat — and had to go back and retroactively revoke those individuals’ visas.

The means our screening system is so bad, it let through more than four times as many suspected terrorists as it stopped. If a National Hockey League goalie let in more than four times as many goals as he blocked, he would be fired.

And let’s be clear: Those 9,500 visa revocations are just the suspected terrorists we know about. How many more terrorists are out there who also beat our screening system but officials did not figure out their mistake and revoke the visas?

I can name at least one: Tashfeen Malik. She never had her visa revoked. We learned she was a terrorist only after she and her husband massacred 14 people in San Bernardino, Calif. She beat our screening system, got into our country and carried out a terrorist attack.

So did Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 2009 so-called underwear bomber who nearly blew up a plane over Detroit on Christmas Day 2009. His father walked into a U.S. embassy and reported that his son was involved with terrorists. Yet the Wall Street Journal reports that the State Department “didn’t revoke his visa after Mr. Abdulmutallab’s father alerted U.S. officials to his son’s potential radicalization.” How many more terrorist visa holders like Tashfeen Malik and Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab are out there today?…

 

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Filed Under: Barack Obama, Featured, immigration, Useful idiots, willful ignorance Tagged With: Tashfeen Malik, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab


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  1. Don McKellar says

    Dec 21, 2015 at 5:06 pm

    With all the suspicious activity going on with masses of cell phones being bought by moslems and whatnot, and all these OBVIOUS scouting and dry runs going on for large scale jihad attacks, one can only conclude that this last year of the Obama regime will be a blood-soaked nightmare come true in America. It may interfere with his golf plans having to shuffle to the microphone after each mass murder and defend Islam and moslems and wring his hands over “Islamophobia”. The whole thing is building to a nightmare crescendo of Islamic jihad, with the darkest of unintentional black comedy coming from the president after each one. I’m not trying to be funny — that’s reality when it comes to Obama.

    • Judi says

      Dec 22, 2015 at 2:57 am

      Don – unfortunately, I think you are correct.

    • Oppressaphobe says

      Dec 22, 2015 at 8:27 am

      Obama made a speech, I believe it was just before San Bernardino, telling Americans

      ENJOY YOUR HOLIDAY (not his holiday)!!

      Obama mad another speech the day before Las Vegas saying ENJOY YOUR CHRISTIAN HOLIDAY AMERICANS!!! (not really his holiday cuz we are not a Christian nation, remember?)

      Now, if I didn’t know better (and I don’t) I’d say that there is an intentional blighting of Christian/American holidays going on. Definitely by muslim terrorists, and it would appear that if you keep telling americans they are safe to enjoy their holidays…then this happens, that happens, no information is forthcoming again in Las Vegas….well then there seems to be a deliberate attempt to pair Christians holidays with tragedy, thereby psychologically damaging them for people. Didn’t somebody say barach knows we need to change our traditions, our history? Well they are taking care of changing the history because they control the media but our traditions are held in the hearts of americans, like going to las vegas for Christmas vacation, etc…

      Why did Lakeisha Holloway change her name in October to Paris Paradise Morton?

      If I were a homeless person, distraught over a break-up, I don’t think my first thing I would do is change my name and put pictures of me in front of the Eiffel tower in Las Vegas! I’m just sayin…

      I thought I read that a judge in Vancouver signed off on that (maybe it was in Oregon) but that they couldn’t be reached for comment.

      I looked up convert to islam and name change and low and behold I found tons of great sites that help newbies to islam to decide on whether or not they want to change their name. Some sites made it clear that you would still be considered a brother or sister even if you did not change your name, no worries there.

      So Obama can tell us to go enjoy our Christian holidays all he wants, from his beachhouse in Hawaii, but AMERICANS ARE DYING AND HURTING REAL BAD THIS HOLIDAY SEASON.

      Does anybody remember a holiday with such tragedy as this? Not so long ago Americans would be so traumatized to have something like SB right before Thanksgiving and something like LV happen 6 days before Christmas!

      So ARE WE A CHRISTIAN NATION ANYMORE? Or have we been fundamentally changed by Barach Hussein Obama–(vacationer in chief).

  2. Angemon says

    Dec 21, 2015 at 6:54 pm

    The Obama administration insists that it is safe to admit 10,000 Syrian refugees

    Well, if the Obama administration insists it is then it’s safe to assume that it isn’t.

  3. citycat says

    Dec 21, 2015 at 9:54 pm

    I don’t understand this Islamic cog of terrorists.
    Why can’t they be peaceful and join the more necessary cog of the more dangerous and ‘peaceful’ resident Muslims who patiently wait in the loving comforting perception of Islam’s growing of babies for Allah, to later kill or convert all infidels in America.
    The dream nightmare of Islam is securely rooted in enough Muslims already to realize said nightmare dream.
    Just keep breeding, in ‘peace’ from the sexual goading.
    It is the ‘dream’ that Islam has that might be more powerful than the money of the Jews and of the power of the Christians combined.
    But who knows what odd thing could change that dream perception.
    Just saying.

  4. Michael Copeland says

    Dec 22, 2015 at 3:55 am

    “vetting them against all the available information”.
    In many cases there is no available information. They are let in anyway.
    So they are admitted unvetted, the opposite of what Obama says.

  5. J. P. Theo says

    Dec 22, 2015 at 4:36 am

    Amazing incompetence.

    Are we being led by fools – or worse – deliberately anti-American forces who seem hell bent on “fundamental change”. And it seems so often to be change for the worse?

    It may be too late for Europe, but it is not too late for America.

    Time to wake up.

  6. Rich says

    Dec 22, 2015 at 10:27 am

    The issue for the Syrian Christians is that they are intimidated and threatened in the UN camps, so they do not stay there. Then they do not have the documentation necessary to emigrate. Media misses this point. It is shame that these good people are stranded and we can import imposters.

  7. duh_swami says

    Dec 22, 2015 at 10:46 am

    ‘Destroy the miserable house if America;,,,The plan is wording perfectly…

  8. duh)swami says

    Dec 22, 2015 at 11:11 am

    Create the problem…Bring in large numbers of dubious char taters,,,release large numbers of dubious charters from prion…Then you solve the problem with a civilian Security force as well armed and funded as the military…They will need tanks, field artillery, some bombers and at least two battleships….

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