Which side were they on?
This Fox News story is willfully misleading: “extreme vetting” is a term Trump has used to describe the procedures he hopes to implement. There was nothing “extreme” about Obama’s vetting process, and all this happened during the Obama administration. So why is Fox trying to use it to discredit Trump?
“Iraqi insurgent fighter allegedly lied about identity, got through ‘extreme’ vetting,” by William Lajeunesse and Malia Zimmerman, Fox News, March 8, 2017:
Federal lawmakers are investigating how a former Iraqi insurgent fighter was able to lie about his identity and still get through America’s ‘extreme’ vetting process.
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has asked Attorney General Jeff Sessions to find out why the terror suspect’s pending arrest was allegedly spiked just over a week before the election. Trump had run on a tough-on-terror platform and had been critical of President Obama’s refugee policy.
“When [Joint Terrorism Task Force] and the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Western District of Texas sought to prosecute this refugee, the local law enforcement and prosecutors allegedly ‘met resistance’ from officials within the National Security Division’s Counter Terrorism section in Washington DC,” Committee chairman Ron Johnson, R-Wis., said in a March 6 letter to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
“The ‘resistance’ allegedly occurred a few weeks before the 2016 election, and local authorities believed the lack of progress in this case was handled inadequately,” Johnson wrote.
The suspect is an Iraqi man who had entered the U.S. under a false name. His real name was not released.
Fox News has learned the JTTF confirmed through U.S. Special Forces who encountered the suspect during operations that he claimed to have participated in attacks against American troops as an insurgent.
At some point, the Iraqi entered the U.S. through the refugee program. His activities in the U.S. triggered an investigation by JTTF members, who planned to charge him with visa fraud while they investigated possible further charges.
Sources say the case demonstrates the challenge of vetting people with little documented history in countries where there’s no paper trail.
Officials from the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. attorney’s office in Western Texas and the Joint Terrorism Task Force refused comment….
Mac-101 says
It sure appears to me that Fox News is just Controlled Opposition trying to maintain the appearance of a choice. Meanwhile we are being played Good Cop/Bad Cop by the Elites. The Globalist NWO Puppet Masters own/control ALMOST ALL, if not ALL!
John Sturtz says
When are the people on the left going to wake up? Obama got away with blatantly dishonest antics for 8 solid years. Are the liberals really this ignorant?
Pete Korsos says
They were into it as well or it wouldn’t have gone as far as it did.
Jeanette says
People who refuse to even consider anything they don’t want to believe will never wake up .
underbed cat says
This story does not surprise me, nor most of your readers, since the border was open and the HLS had removed “descriptive words”, (thanks to the Haney testimony)to identify a terrorist jihadi and that description was in effect during most of the previous administration along with the repeated assertions that terrorist had no connection to Islam. Exactly the same pressure that removed the words from the 9/11 Commission Report book that was released and quickly removed and replaced by several versions. Fox News seems to have changed and is obfuscating facts to be fair and balanced? From what I have learned the CVE would be looking for the wrong people to vet.
Hopefully this guy is in custody….along with the othes Obama gave a wink to and access. Influence an election…nobody talks about the future effects that un-vetted massive migration that could implement sharia by voting in politicians and one that almost did to fundamentally change this government.
Milad Meah says
If one believes that Quran is the word of his Allah – Extreme vetting has gone out of the window – as simple as that.
Quran at-Tawbah-23 (9:23) Do not talk to your parents if they are non-Muslims
Quran al-Anfal-39 (8:39) KILL non-Muslims (includes parents)
underbed cat says
This story does not surprise me, no likely most of your readers, since the border was open and the HLS had removed “descriptive words”, (thanks to the Haney testimony)to identify a terrorist and that description was in effect during most of the previous administration along with the repeated assertions that terrorism had no connection to Islam. Exactly the same pressure that removed the words from the 9/11 Commission Report book that was released and quickly removed and replaced by several versions. Fox News seems to have changed and is obfuscating facts to be fair and balanced? From what I have learned the CVE would not be allowed to vet refugees or visa holders using the descriptions that actually describe the potential.
Hopefully this guy is in custody….along with the others Obama gave a wink to and access pass. Influence an election…nobody in the media talks about the future effects that un-vetted massive migration that could implement sharia by voting in politicians and one that almost did to fundamentally change this government.
mortimer says
All Muslims entering the US should take a series of lie detector tests to discover if they support terrorist organizations. Those who attend ISLAMIC STUDY GROUPS should take regular lie detector tests every six months.
(OK… I’m dreaming, but it would reveal most of the jihad supporters.)
common sense says
Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama all capitulated with NSA, CIA on the middle east for a seat at the table as long as they got their votes. (This goes back beyond WWII so maybe Reagan to. I doubt that since they tried to kill him, my opinion only).
Fox intermittently omits details and opposition from their reporting. It’s been way to ‘interesting’ and tempting to sit on the next Donald Trump tweet or mockery of the fake news channels and channeling the fight between the looney left and quivering right.
Nobody needs a book to see these things however there is one;
“What Washington Gets Wrong”: The Unelected Officials Who Actually run the goverment.
Book by Benjamin Ginsberg and Jennifer Bachner.
Corporate America and the ties with our intelligence forces and influence on foreign policy making. The Russians? Hah! BS!
Make America Into America again!
Mac-101 says
Don’t forget, I didn’t see in this article what percent of Fox is owned by the Oil Ticks!
Stan Lee says
Eight years of Obama allowed reckless latitude in the issue of Middle-East/ African, and South Asian Muslim acceptability for entry into the United States. From the first second of his first term, Obama favored the culture/religion in which he was raised from childhood. He just kept it secret, representing himself as a Christian! Lying for the advancement of Islam is acceptable as advised in the koran.
Now, comes the alibi from Muslim sympathizers that Muslims who become involved in crime against this nation were “radicalized” here in the USA. I disagree, “radicalized is “radicalized!” That fact is that radicalization is supposed to disqualify that the perpetrator brought his/her jihad with him/her upon entry to the USA and that America was responsible for the jihad. Perhaps, “responsible” for admitting such a person or persons into America, and there the reason for it stops because the Oath of Allegiance was taken by the perp. in full knowledge that it was being misrepresented!
I must disagree with the premise, based upon the following; what if the perp. was part of an admitted Muslim family and was “radicalized” in the home where the perp. resided with parents who taught absolute adherence to the directions from the koran? And, what about the mosque attended by the entire family, where an imam had access to the entire congregation and taught absolute obedience to the koran and its directions concerning Islam’s treatment of all non-Muslims, non-Muslim females, and the glory of martyrdom involved in jihad?
That would nullify the argument that radicalization took root based upon the perp’s life in the American culture. It doesn’t happen to non-Muslims growing up in American culture!
That perp. was immersed in Islamic culture and religion, whether bringing it to America or being raised with indoctrination to Islam in America, and its view of non-Muslim life that creates or has created created an attitude of hate and observance only to Islam and shariah in defiance of American law arising from the U.S. Constitution. Taking the Oath of Allegiance to the United States then is a shallow formality for Muslims meaning little or nothing and only for entry to the United States.
“What’s the point ?” one may ask. A Muslim living here or not becomes indoctrinated by what he/she is taught, which begins in childhood (unless we consider older converts to Islam) to think and act as a devout Muslim in the commission of discharging the duties Muslims have to their koran and shariah. Where radicalization takes place, here or overseas, we still have a radical Muslim who any moment can consider that the present is the time for jihad against America and its citizens representing faiths that successfully mingle with each other.
Only Muslims scheme to destroy for the advancement of Islam’s perceived superiority over all other creeds that responsibly exist as Americans.
Angemon says
Indeed. Just look at the giant, hairy, 12-year-old “children” in Calais.
underbed cat says
Fox is at it again…….Russia front and center….except they did not fly the planes into the twin towers in NYC…or any other terror event they just don’t remember…which follow a doctrine to spread sharia, guess what Fox News national security was the concern of most voters for Trump, who realized migration was a huge threat and the CVE could not identify the problem or vet for our protection. I doubt Fox News knows much about the OIC, sharia law, or the Ikwhan/MB organizations so they have alot to learn and Saudi Arabia funds to influence seem to have worked to silence the information and speaking about facts of doctrine is the threat of the day.
mortimer says
Homeland Security under Obama was Homeland INSECURITY … many times, they looked the other way, ignored the jihad threats and put American lives at risk.
It amounted to criminal negligence.
Jeanette says
Obama is one of them, which amounts to treason, assuming that he is a US citizen. If he is an illegal alien, then he’s guilty of espionage.
gravenimage says
A week before 2016 election, Obama administration spiked arrest of jihadi who lied to enter US
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Enabling the Jihad to the end…
jay says
If anything, the need for more biometrics is increased…that is all.
Troybeam says
There is enough information from Obama’s term to actually have him arrested for various actions on his part, TREASON is number one, maybe Jeff Sessions will actually gather enough intel and do just that to get Obama out of the political arena.
Jeanette says
I suspect that Sessions will find out that Obama is not a US citizen, which would explain why he never held a US Passport until he was given one automatically when he became a US Senator (which means that foreign trips were made with some other country’s passport), and would likely explain why he had all of his university records sealed (applied and accepted as a foreign student).
If that turns out to be true, then he can’t be charged as a traitor, because you can only be a traitor to (betray) your own country.
Then the charge would be espionage, and we know what happened to the last two people who were convicted of that.
Has anyone else heard the rumor that Obama has bought a property in Dubai, a (Muslim) country which will not extradite criminals to the US?