And there is no way to distinguish the jihadis who are entering the country along with peaceful Muslims, anyway. So what could possibly go wrong?
“Obama Plan to Cut Refugee Screening Time Raises Concerns About Terrorism,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, May 3, 2016:
An Obama administration plan to resettle a greater number of foreign refugees in the United States by expediting the screening process is drawing concern from Capitol Hill, where lawmakers are warning that the administration is not capable of properly screening these individuals for ties to terrorism.
The Obama administration has committed to bring at least 10,000 Syrian refugees onto American soil in fiscal year 2016 by accelerating security screening procedures from 18-24 months to around three months, according to sources who spoke to the Washington Free Beacon.
Obama administration officials told the Free Beacon that they remain committed to the plan, despite warnings from the FBI and other law enforcement officials who say the federal government is not equipped to properly vet these individuals within that timeframe.
The administration is committed to moving forward this year with a plan to resettle 10,000 Syrian refugees and 85,000 refugees overall, officials said.
Lawmakers are pressing the State Department and White House to reconsider the plan, arguing that critical security concerns should be addressed before it is implemented.
“We know the 18- to 24-month vetting process for Syrian refugees has severe vulnerabilities after FBI Director James Comey warned about the federal government’s inability to thoroughly screen Syrian refugee applicants for terrorism risk and after the Department of Homeland Security’s investigative arm warned about ISIS’s capability to print fake Syrian passports for terrorist infiltration,” Sen. Mark Kirk (R., Ill.) told the Free Beacon.
The administration has not specified what mechanisms it has put in place to facilitate the screening of a larger number of refugees on a three-month timeline, according to Kirk.
“Given that the administration has not explained to the American people whether and how it fixed these and other known vulnerabilities to terrorist infiltration, it is highly irresponsible for the administration to reduce the 18- to 24-month vetting process for Syrian refugees down to three months to meet its artificial and ideologically-driven goal of bringing 10,000 Syrian refugees onto U.S. soil by September,” said Kirk, who recently introduced legislation to impose enhanced screening measures to prevent terrorists from taking advantage of the U.S. refugee program.
A State Department spokesman told the Free Beacon that the United States is expected to take in around 15,000 more refugees than it has in the past three years.
“The United States remains committed to the president’s plan to resettle 10,000 Syrian refugees and 85,000 refugees overall to the United States in fiscal year 2016,” said the official, who was not authorized to speak on record. “This projected increase in arrivals from around the world, from 70,000 in each of the last three fiscal years, will not curtail any aspects of the process, including its robust security screening.”
The official confirmed that the administration is moving to screen these individuals on a swifter timeline in order to facilitate their entry into the United States.
“While this increase in processing capacity and other efforts will decrease the overall processing time for individual families, the average processing time worldwide remains 18-24 months,” the official explained. “As we have said, neither this program nor any of our efforts to expand processing capacity curtail any aspects of the security, medical, or other screening.”
The administration has moved in recent months to boost its processing capacity in order to deal with increased numbers of refugees, the official said. This includes new measures that would help Syrians with relatives already in the United States apply for resettlement.
Additionally, the Department of State and Department of Homeland Security are jointly working to increase their capacity to interview refugee applicants from Jordan.
“From February through April, additional staff were posted to Jordan, where they conducted interviews of over 12,000 [U.N.]-referred refugee applicants,” the official said. “All applicants are still subject to the same stringent security and medical requirements that apply to all applicants for U.S. refugee resettlement.”
Not all of the applicants who were approved will enter the United States in the coming months. Some of those approved will enter after April in fiscal year 2017.
The administration’s reassurances have not soothed concerns among senior congressional insiders working on the issue.
“The administration’s repeated assertions that the vetting process is ‘robust’ doesn’t provide any real assurances about a dangerously flawed vetting process that has allowed terrorists to infiltrate refugee flows from high-risk countries in the Middle East into the United States,” one senior congressional source told the Free Beacon.
“The vetting process clearly wasn’t ‘robust’ when it resettled two terrorists as refugees in Kentucky who were later arrested in 2011 after law enforcement officials learned, belatedly and through no small amount of luck, of the ties and material support of these individuals to ISIS’s precursor, al Qaeda in Iraq,” the source said, noting that U.S. authorities do not have databases capable of identifying potential terrorists.
“While U.S. and coalition forces worked with Iraqi authorities to create databases for identifying terrorists during the Iraq conflict who might be infiltrating refugee flows, FBI Director Comey has made it clear in congressional testimony there is no equivalent capability today for identifying terrorists from the Syrian conflict who might seek to do the same,” the source said….

mccode says
Why bother screening them at all?
We all know the admin’s broken narrative — It’s the “Religion of Peace”
Myrtle Linder says
Evidently, I was wrong in my opinion of what Religion of Peace means!!
M Kapil says
Correction: Religion of piece, meaning a bomb blast will leave us, infidels, in pieces.
quotha raven says
“lawmakers are warning that the administration is not capable of properly screening these individuals for ties to terrorism.”
Ya think?
Common sense enters the picture?
Cheers!
quotha raven
Angemon says
Now hold on. This sounds like it’s a BAD thing until you remember that such a screening process won’t make any difference – remember the female half of the San Bernardino shooters? How many vetoing processes cleared her despite her false address and FB postings? Under that light, I say that Obama is doing a GOOD thing, since it’ll cut the amount of taxpayer money wasted on fruitless measures. Which is something Obama would never consider doing, so my theory is that he had to pick the lesser of two evils – make the lives of the jihadi a bit harder or stop wating a little money.
(for the literal-minded individuals who are by now drooling in anticipation of hitting me with the “See? Angemon is defending muslims!!!” cane, that was sarcasm)
Frank says
Treason in action.
Gungadin says
And YES as USUAL our Congress will go right along with the funding of this effort……that TOO is treason!
Myrtle Linder says
Who will pay the billions in food, clothing and housing?? How much will Obama donate out of his own pocket not out of the County.s Ti!!ll
DFD says
Hi Myrtle,
Paying for all this? Obama has the answer for you! See here
https://youtu.be/J6TcpfBHlbs
Keys says
Thanks, DFD. You Put a smile on my face.
Cynthia says
How can there be any such thing as a peaceful Muslim? How can one be peaceful when they’re raised on a holy Quran that’s based on hate and death? This is what they know from childhood. I feel for the women over there who are human beings… One was explaining to me how when she was pregnant her husband beat her until her baby fell out of her … She was telling me in Arabic … She did not have to tell me in English I could feel her pain. He divorced her after . Now she has to remain single for 7 years and she has to be shamed for it. But the man can have another woman right away. Sadly our culture being loving and kind want to embrace and help… But do not understand this barbaric savageness. Let me assure you that this is very real. They do not know how to love they only know how to hate. They only know how to take. They are very arrogant. They believe that they are the hands and feet of Allah. They are Servants of the devil. We should be so thankful that by the grace of God we were born in a God-fearing country. We should never take our freedoms for granted. And we should fight for it.
Gungadin says
Cynthia when I was a young GI, I was stationed in Morocco. I remember the day I arrived in Casablanca a guy from the base I would be assigned to, picked me up upon my arrival. We drove to Rabat, where it was late in the afternoon -as I remember it – and the streets we rode and the sidewalks too — had thousands of people walking upon them. Those walking, walked as if nobody else was present around them. I was amazed and aghast as to how they stepped right in front of vehicles without -it seemed- no care or concern for their own well being. I mentioned this to my driver and he said “Most are going to prayer, others are getting off work, the majority of people here are muslims and they believe Mohammed watches and protects them” Combine that “logic” with their opinion that its best to die for Mohammed and we’ve got a world full of trouble on our doorsteps.
harbidoll says
Shocking eye opener what a culture war is about. Example, most of us would be afraid to run our car full speed into a crowd of people, a disgusting idea., but it happens a lot in Israel
quotha raven says
“The administration is committed to moving forward this year with a plan to resettle 10,000 Syrian refugees and 85,000 refugees overall, officials said.”
Not counting all the additional green cards, approved student visas, illegals, etc, etc. This number 85,000 doesn’t come close to describing how many muslims are really invading the USA.
“Officials” are lying if their lips are moving.
Cheers!
Walter Sieruk says
How totally reckless and irresponsible can Obama be ? One thing is for sure. Which is the Obama is no Thomas Jefferson. For Mr. Jefferson had taught “Let the eye of vigilance never be closed.”
boakai ngombu says
as POTUS said at the big press shindig last week: ….the country isn’t destroyed yet…”
Gungadin says
Were there GASPS from the Libs in attendance — or did they laugh or shrug off his comment?
Jack Holan says
Robert,
It looks like State is telling a BIG ONE. They vetted 12,000 People in 90days February – April 24/7. Just how many qualified security people went to Jordan to vet. How many hours did they work and how many spoke fluent Arabic. It sounds like a bunch of Huey but what else is new for this Administration.
patrick mcnamara says
Obama Muhammed refuses to help the persecuted Syrians like the yazeedees, Christians. Gay refugees. All those that suffer persecution at the hands of Muslim Syrians…most are male Muslim refugees.who thrown Christians overboard who have harassed threatened even rapedd those they deem infidels who hate the West and will launch devastating attacks on us soil.men disguising as children. Even killing their helpers..these are people who do not want to integrate but demand you adapt to their lifestyle. USA you ate screwed, your Muhammed appeasing president had already allowed muslims who sympathise with jihad..the establishment of a caliphate, into high security positions.trojan horse muslims guideline as teachers already taking advantage of leftist liberal bullshit.wake up america
quotha raven says
Patrick – Look who’s head of the CIA!
Cheers!
quotha raven
quotha raven says
Patrick – I just looked it up; Obama didn’t have the marbles to appoint John Brennon the director of the CIA until 2013. He waited until he thought it couldn’t bite him in the ass politically. He becomes more brazen and reckless and bold with every day. Eight months is a looooong time in my book.
Cheers!
quotha raven
Gungadin says
Yes we have a muslim loving, hate America, outgoing president and London is about to elect their own muslim mayor….it never seems to end does it?
I also read that the Midlands of the UK is overrun by these POS ….and Leicester in particular…one of my favorite towns 50+ years ago.
Dan Jones says
Sure does cuz Hilary needs the votes…
More End Time News At:
http://www.shininginthedark.com/?page_id=7760
Walter Sieruk says
As for all those Muslim migrants that Obama will allow int the United States without a good screening and vetting process the ,very much, poses a terrible risk the the safely and health of the public. For no person can actually read minds and see if a migrant intentions is benign and peaceful or vicious and violent. Concerning the later the jihad- minded Muslim migrants with their malicious jihadist scheming for a future deadly Islamic terror attack in and on America. They with their malicious -filled scheming way of thinking as similar to ,in character , to those fiendish villains described in the Bible in Psalm 64: 5,6. Which reads “They encourage each other in their evil plans., they say ‘Who will see them ?’ They plot injustice and say, ‘We have devised a perfect plain !’ Surly the mind and heart of man are cunning.” [N.I.V.]
Wellington says
No need to screen. Rather, just ban all Muslims just as is done with Neo-Nazis, anarchists, Marxists, Aryan Nation members and other losers whose belief system poses a mortal threat to freedom. Free societies have zero moral or legal obligation to take in those who adhere to a belief system that is inimical to liberty and no belief system ever formed by man is more opposed to liberty than Islam.
quotha raven says
To Wellington – Well said, I agree with every word. Wish more people thought like you do.
Cheers!
quotha raven
Wellington says
I wish the same thing, quotha raven. Actually, I’ve been working on this particular “project” for a very long time now and it is my intention to never give up on it.
Cheers!
Wellington
aDhimmiSaysWhat? says
Well said. What I would like to see is real scrutiny of islam. I think if islam was studied, pored over, and examined thoroughly it would be deemed unconstitutional, and therefore banned.
I can still dream, can’t I?
Myxlplik says
I doubt that screening of any kind will mitigate the fact that Muslims believe in Islam, which is the problem, so unless you are intentionally screening Muslims out in order to exclude them it really doesn’t matter if it’s 3 months or 12 months. Obama just wants to get as many in as he can while he’s in office.
Hope says
Obama is one sick bastard. But the RINO’s in congress who were elected to stop him are just as guilty for lying down and rolling over every time he snaps his fingers. Obama is having a good time, doing exactly as he pleases and laughing at Americans. God, how I despise him.
Gerald Mucci says
Which Syrian, Iranian or Saudi Arabian agency do we consult to vet these Muslim, infidel hating immigrants? I cannot wait for our complicit do nothing, Obama-hugging good for nothing Congress to disappear. Oh and the 28 redacted “secret” pages that some in Congress are now dismissing as misleading – only to cover their own complicit-in-their-coverup-butts. It can’t be released soon enough.
Lizzy says
‘The Obama administration has committed to bring at least 10,000 Syrian refugees onto American soil in fiscal year 2016’
The Obama administration haven’t twigged that Europe initially gave islam a foothold and now are in the throes of an Islamic invasion. The evidence is clear to see in European countries. Hopefully, for the US, the electorate are more clued up than the Obama administration and vote accordingly in the forthcoming election.
Judi says
Well guys, you can’t say you weren’t warned 7 years ago that the traitor wanted to fundamentally change America. He’s only following through with his plan.
Guest says
Add this to the already long list of “the reason Obama’s election was a mistake.”
Wellington says
I agree, Glenn Wilson, but the Left will gut it, as it will the First Amendment, if given the chance. Four of the Supreme Court justices, the three women (Kagan, Sotomayor and Ginsburg) along with Breyer, would be only too willing to read all kinds of additional restrictions into both the First and Second Amendments. Compounding this folly and betrayal of what the Constitution truly means are two wimpy justices, Kennedy and Roberts, especially the former. With the death of Scalia, the only Supreme Court justices who really “get” the First and Second Amendments (or the Constitution in general for that matter) are Alito and Thomas and this is not nearly enough.
Gun rights are in great jeopardy in America as is freedom in general. Modern liberals are enemies of both and Muslims will be only too eager to join this betrayal of the Constitution since what the Islamic theological blueprint maintains and what the Constitution asserts are in so many instances polar opposites of one another.
In short, there are two enemies of freedom in our time——the Left and Islam. Complicating all this is that many on the Right nowadays, for instance Boehner, Ryan, McCain and Graham, are pathetic. These sorry-ass people are, in effect, just Democrat Light and thus oblivious not only of freedom but of Islam as well. Just look at how Ryan, the new Republican Speaker of the House, unambiguously condemned Donald Trump’s eminently sensible proposal to temporarily ban Muslim immigrants to America. With allies like Ryan who needs Pelosi.
Hope says
“…there are two enemies of freedom in our time–the Left and Islam.”
Wellington, exactly! You have summed it up. And either of these entities on its own would be bad enough. But the unholy alliance forged between the two places all of us in serious danger of losing everything we hold sacred.
Ted Tyler says
Math problem: If 1 Muslim in 10,000 refugees is radicalized, and each radicalized Muslim can kill 10 Americans, and you bring 85,000 refugees into America, then how many Americans will be killed? (Note: by “radicalized” I mean one who follows orthodox Islam and emulates Muhammad in every way)
aDhimmiSaysWhat? says
85 too many.
Goddess says
Block ’em back to mecca, barry included.
David says
I have come to see our current president as little more then a lunatic or worse, an out and out TRAITOR.
Since no one could be so incomprehensible stupid, is has to be the later.
This nation will need years, if not decades to recover from all the damage he has done!
Norma says
There is an article on global research that says in the last 5 years U.S. has given green cards to 680,000 Muslims in foreign countries – so there are probably tons of jihads already in place.
We in Canada have let in 25,000 and I am not sure if we got 10,000 sponsored ones (last I saw was over 8,000 and Trudeau was going to extend period and another article said he wasn’t sure how many sponsors)but I saw an article that stated some of the sponsors are Muslim Brotherhood. CBC said we wasted 16 Million dollars because they did not do proper security check, and how do we know the are Syrian; and as Robert and others have stated how do you tell moderates from jihads, you can’t. I say that because in Europe they have reported many refugees don’t have any identification, and some have false passports. As Robert Spencer has said the UN is arm of Islamic Cooperation – and allies like NATO and Saudis, Israel, Qatar and united Emirates and let’s not forget Turkey want Islamic Caliphate. Israel likes the terrorists.
There is a an article (link at end) about Germany wants to create Islamic Law saying that mosques can’t be built with foreign money, they want the mosque imams to be speaking German, to be certified in Germany to ensure they aren’t teaching the Wahhabi. One PM says that is not enough we must deport them if they don’t conform or integrate. This is because Turkey, Erodan, has sent 970 Turkish imams to 900 mosques in Turkey and Saudi says it wants to build 200 new mosques and admit they want to teach Wahhabi. I do think we need to have laws too and we need to look at all private religious schools to see what they are teaching, i.e. scientology to ensure they are not teaching or brainwashing people into ideology that is not in keeping with our culture, freedoms or laws. See this http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-04-29/germany-moves-ban-refugees-welfare-politician-calls-islam-law-limit-influence. Erodan is also preaching don’t integrate as it is human rights violation to islam refugees. We do need our laws and to ensure that Islam or any other group doesn’t dominate our cultural values or have their own elitist laws like Sharia.
I saw another article where Trudeau says he wants to increase immigration from 250,000 to 300,00 and to lower the number of skilled immigrants and bring in poor, uneducated families from Eritrea, Congo and Columbia. Again we don’t need to import the over world’s population, we can’t become the welfare country for the world, not on our taxpayers dime; and I have no doubt preference will be given to Muslims. But that is the plan by the globalists to destroy our culture, which Pierre Trudeau did with multiculturalism, as Quebec with its special status has its own point system, where English Canada is becoming a melting pot of nations, to economically destroy us and to bring us into one homogeny and create the one world order.
somehistory says
There is satan the devil, original serpent, dragon. There is a false prophet. There is a wild beast.
satan the devil and the false prophet conspire to build an image to the wild beast
Then, the devil, false prophet and wild beast conspire to make all of the race of humans on planet earth bow down in worship to the beast and the image of the beast.
That is what is happening…and has been going on for awhile…now. People are being forced to worship the beast and its image. The process is escalating as the devil is running out of time. It is truly sickening. It it was only a nightmare dream, we could all wake up.
Thankfully, one day soon, it will be over. The wild beast, the image, false prophet and the dragon devil will be hurled into the pit.
(Revelation 13-21)
LR says
Well, time to slam the White House, and your Reps. with post cards and calls. It’s the least people can do.
Why aren’t we giving priority to the persecuted Christians, and Yazidis?
Rob says
You mean minorities?
As if…
Susan says
Must get them all here before the election! Down with Obama and his incompetent cronies!
Mo says
Obama plans to cut time spen”t on screening Muslim migrants”
How do you cut time on zero?
Abinavam narayanan Rajaram says
Way back in the beginning of 1970s one daring fellow filed a suit against Quran in the Calcutta High Court, detailing its verses and their meanings, which were against the Indian Penal Code sections! The case was admitted by a bold lady who was one of the judges of the Calcutta High Court! Interestingly the home ministry of West Bengal rushed to the Central Home ministry at Delhi and the then Prime Minister Mrs.Indira Gandhi sent her home secretary very hurriedly to meet the then chief secretary of West Bengal Government, Chief Minister and also the principal Chief judge of the Calcutta High Court. What transpired between them God alone knows and immediately the Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court hurriedly took steps to dismiss the petition against Quran and also transferred the woman judge to some other state! This is perhaps a hidden history not many may be aware. Therefore appeasing the Muslims (in India for vote banks) and in other parts of the world, for a host of bizarre reasons, is just common—this is at our own peril, whichever the nations and nationalities are–those who insist that their religion is the only religion that God has bestowed and other religions are taboos must be severely dealt with in no uncertain names, even if it amounts to a whole scale world war! From time immemorial we, as a whole human race, have been fighting for peace(!) and this relentless fight against the satanic forces that try to subdue us hook or by crook–must continue whatever be the sacrifices that we may have to face.
Mark Swan says
Abinavam narayanan Rajaram…interesting post…thanks
gordon miller says
Can we (congress) delay this invasion for another eight months? Need we ask why our so-called president is bent on destroying our country before he leaves office? Ask me if you don’t know.
John A. Marre says
Another going-away present from the current occupant of the oval office.
Ted Tyler says
My wife just received a letter from the “Human Rights Watch” containing a petition to Governor Charlie Baker of Massachusetts as follows:
“I petition you today because I am alarmed and disturbed by the Islamophobia that is sweeping our nation and by your attempts to keep Syrian refugees from out state………Presenting refugees as a security threat is unjustified…..The residents of Massachusetts are not at risk from Syrian refugees……Playing on fear is not only bad for our state, but sends a message that could harm refugees abroad whose lives hang in the balance….We should act with compassion, reason, and a commitment to the defense of human rights.”
The you are supposed to sign the petition and send it to Charlie Baker.
Also contained within the petition packed is a pamphlet on “How to Talk to an Islamophobe” and this pamphlet includes some remarkable statistics:
1. Mass shootings in 2015 in America = 355. Number perpetrated by Muslims = 3
2. Chances of an American being killed in a terror attack by someone claiming that Islam sanctions their actions = 1 in 20,000,000
Same chances of being killed by a dog = 1 in 116,448
3. The swiftest and most permanent way to defeat ISIS and all radical groups is to uphold human rights. ISIS cannot flourish in a region where the rights of all are upheld.
4. Minority youth should be integrated and welcomed into society instead of relegated to the margins, where they are more vulnerable to recruitment by terrorist organizations.
We are supposed to put a bumper sticker on our car that says: “Not Afraid of Syrian Refugees” in big print and then in small print has “Human Rights Watch” and HRW.org.
This HRW organization is extremely dangerous because it successfully propagates the illusion that the refugees are not dangerous and that islamophobia is a bad thing.
I hope that Robert Spencer and others on this site – most of whom are far more knowledgeable than me – would be able to mount a powerful rebuttal to this petition.
John says
The new ‘vetting’ process:
“What’s your name?”
“Abdullah.”
“And you want to travel to America, to take up residence as a refugee?”
“Yes.”
“Where are you from?”
“Syria.” [Though, in point of fact, only around 30% of the ‘refugees’ are actually from Syria.]
“And do you have any identification, Abdullah… a Passport perhaps?”
“No.”
“OK, Here’s a plane ticket and some meal vouchers you can uses before your departure.”
ronald reed says
Obama and crew never intended to screen muslims and does not intend to screen any one else coming across our borders. G Soros, is constant companion’s group. the open society project believes laws are not needed because they hinder free speech and the advancement of recognisedf civilized society within a society of free thinking and acting individuals as he puts it. Soros is a pawn of th devil, his work in europew continues its advancement of removing god from every area of life. You see the europen civilization colapsing. Soros and obama are on the fast track here to get this completed. the end result wil be the extinction of large parts of humanity with progressive government controlling the rest with a iron fist around their throats.
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