It’s all going according to plan.
Biden’s catastrophically botched withdrawal from Afghanistan was bad enough in itself, diminishing America’s standing in the world and projecting an image of weakness that has encouraged and emboldened enemies of our nation worldwide. The fallout from it, however, could be incalculably worse. A Defense Department (DoD) whistleblower has revealed that 324 of the Afghans whom U.S. forces brought to the United States as the disaster in Afghanistan was unfolding appeared on the department’s Biometrically Enabled Watchlist (BEWL), which includes terrorists, and yet were admitted into the country without being vetted. No one who has been watching the spreading dumpster fire that is the Biden administration could possibly be surprised.
Senators Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) and Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) have called upon the DoD to investigate. On Thursday, they wrote to DoD Acting Inspector General Sean O’Donnell about their “concern over new allegations raised by a Department of Defense (DoD) whistleblower. This information may show the Biden Administration’s failure to vet those evacuated from Afghanistan was even worse than the public was led to believe. The following allegations demand an immediate investigation by your office.” There should indeed be an investigation, but in these days of the hyper-politicization of everything and concomitant wokeification of the government bureaucracy, a genuinely illuminating investigation is about as likely to happen as Donald Trump or Ron DeSantis getting the Democrat nomination for president in 2024.
Epoch Times reported Friday that “the BEWL identifies individuals whose biometrics have been collected and determined by analysts to be threats or potential threats to national security, including known suspected terrorists.” But instead of stopping those who appeared on this watchlist, the whistleblower contents that “White House and DoD officials instructed agency personnel to ‘cut corners’ and not conduct full fingerprint tests on the evacuees at staging bases in Europe, ‘in order to promote the rushed evacuation from Afghanistan.’”
The whistleblower also charges that “Department of Homeland Security (DHS) staff were authorized to delete old biometric data at their discretion.” Really, what could possibly go wrong? Hawley and Johnson point out, with admirable understatement, that this is a “troubling development that could threaten national security and public safety.”
Yeah, it could. And as it was all initially unfolding, Joe Biden was doing what he does best: lying. Sensitive to criticism arising from the importation of unvetted Afghans in the U.S., Biden declared in September 2021 that “planes taking off from Kabul are not flying directly to the United States. They’re landing at U.S. military bases and transit centers around the world. At these sites where they are landing, we are conducting thorough scrutiny — security screenings for everyone who is not a U.S. citizen or a lawful permanent resident.” State Department spokesman Ned Price added: “Before anyone who is evacuated from Afghanistan comes to this country, they undergo a rigorous vet. Unless and until they complete that vet they will not be in a position to come to the U.S.”
In reality, however, there appeared to be a concerted effort to bring unvetted Afghans into the United States. At least 82,000 Afghans were brought to the U.S. without being vetted. In October 2021, Senate Republicans noted in a memo, accordingto the Washington Examiner, “senior officials across the departments of Homeland Security, Defense, State, and Justice described a disastrous screening and vetting process.” Immigration officials accepted uncritically what Afghans said about who they were, without making any effort to check their stories. According to the Examiner, “the large majority of people, approximately 75%, evacuated were not American citizens, green card holders, Afghan Special Immigrant Visa holders, or applicants for the visa.”
Special Immigrant Visas (SIV) had been given to Afghans who aided U.S. forces in Afghanistan. In September 2021, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas revealed that “of the 60,000 Afghans who have entered the U.S., nearly 8,000 are either U.S. citizens or residents, while about 1,800 are SIV holders, having obtained visas after assisting the U.S. military.” That meant that 52,000 of the 60,000 Afghans who had come into the country were not U.S. citizens or SIV holders. In November 2021, Senator Rob Portman (R-Ohio) stated that only 700 of the 82,000 Afghans now in the U.S. were SIV holders.
The Examiner noted that Biden’s reception of these Afghans “violated long-standing U.S. government policies for handling refugees.” This was a deliberate decision: “Refugees are to be screened and vetted before being admitted to the U.S. through an extensive process that includes multiple interrogations. Rather than follow the protocol, the Biden administration instructed federal law enforcement and military officials handling the evacuations and processing to adhere to less stringent standards.”
Hawley confronted FBI director Christopher Wray about all this Thursday. According to Epoch Times, “Wray wasn’t able to give a clear answer about the FBI’s efforts to track down and interview the 324 Afghan evacuees.” Once again, no one should be surprised. Clearly this is all going the way the Leftist elites want it to go.
Check Burry says
Truly awful, mad, deranged, but unsurprising from the man who cannot put a jacket on.
Samer Ibrahim says
If there are gullible missionaries who want to preach Christianity in Afghanistan, this is good news for them. The reason for this is that they will not need to travel to Afghanistan to preach Christianity since Afghans are now in their country in very large numbers. Let these missionaries try to preach Christianity to Afghans living in America before they turn into a time bomb that could explode at any time.
somehistory says
Christians in America shouldn’t have to be the people that expose the true nature of these terrorists. It is the government’s responsibility to make sure anyone allowed into the country is not a threat to the citizens…Christian or otherwise.
gravenimage says
Samer Ibrahim has sneered at Christians before–despite his having claimed in the past to be Christian himself. Note that he seems to be fine with Muslims murdering Christians.
He has also said this:
“May God weaken America”. Ugly, ugly stuff.
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2022/05/connecticut-libyan-muslim-brotherhood-supporters-bankroll-democrat-congressional-candidate#comment-2423322
John says
It has been said that the USCIS office in Washington DC that issues humanitarian parole visas which is a visa that allows foreign nationals to come to the United States for medical care not available in their own countries for six to up to 12 months, has been bombarded with tens of thousands of Visa request for afghans. This agency normally handles 2 to 3000 applications per year. The petitioner must prove he has the financial resources to pay for the medical care of the individual being sponsored. And he must also indicate that medical care is not available and that individual’s country of origin. The huge number of Afghani applications has paralyzed the system. Does anyone really believe that these afghans will go back after they have their alleged medical problems addressed? ( I don’t.) Meanwhile, legitimate petitions for humanitarian parole visas sit in a pile for months at a time with 80,000 others.
Can anyone get USCIS to publicly admit this is true or false?
gravenimage says
I hadn’t heard this, but it does not surprise. Muslims constantly try and use our humanitarian laws against us.
James Lincoln says
Hawley confronts FBI director Christopher Wray about the 324 Afghan evacuees:
https://rumble.com/v1ete07-hawley-spars-with-fbi-director-over-refugee-terror-threat.html
somehistory says
thanks for the link. My question is “why” did it have to be in a ‘short period of time’? why was getting them all here more important than making sure they weren’t going to blow some of us to smithereens, rape little kids, steal, disappear, etc.?
Of course, the answer is, because they wanted those things to happen…the blowing to smithereens, the raping of little kids, the stealing, etc.
As Glenn Beck has been saying for years, “bottom up-top down.” they make the bottom up so bad that the people in the middle cry out for relief from the threats, the violence, the crime, so they can bring down the entire weight of their evil at the top
gravenimage says
+1
somehistory says
According to Daniel Greenfield, wray left the hearing early…in the private jet assigned to the bureau, evidently so he could be all prepared for the more important assignment of raiding Mar a Lago.
People says
I get the population replacement theory…Bring the 3rd world to the West
Out of peaceful Hindus and Buddhists in many poor countries why choosing muslims over and over to flooding the West?
Why muslims?
Hank says
Ask the voters who vote people into office that want more illegal Muslim migration into the country. Those voters love to have it so.
People says
But voting doesn’t matter…look at the US how they steal elections…
We all know voting has no real power nowadays
In Germoney last year there were several “different” parties who made a coalition after the election, so all of them got into the gov anyway…except for the afd…voting there doesn’t matter there either
gravenimage says
Biden’s Handlers Released 324 Unvetted Afghan Evacuees on Terror Watchlist Into the U.S.
……………………………..
Well, this just *keeps getting worse*. I realized that many of these Muslim invaders from Afghanistan could not be properly vetted; I didn’t realize that some of them had been and *were granted entrance anyway*. Suicidal insanity.
somehistory says
the military was provided those facial recognition and fingerprinting devices that were usable right in the field of operations, on the roads, and in the villages of that awful country, some years ago so the terrorists could be identified later if need be. A big thing was made of how it would help the military in the middle of it all to be safer and for the citizens here and there to be safer.
so much for *safer.*
gravenimage says
Grimly true, Somehistory.
OLD GUY says
This whole open border and open immigration policy of the far left is destroying America from within. The personal wealth of our political class is more important to them than what happens to the country they fail to represent. Most of our politicians represent the money flowing their way not the voters.