Obama wants us to trust
him on vetting those thousands of lovely Muslim “refugees” he’s letting in. Yet his administration could not be
bothered with looking at the social media postings of the Jihadi Bride of San
Bernardino infamy, Tashfeen Malik.
Big omission that:
Tashfeen Malik, who with her husband carried out the
massacre in San Bernardino, Calif., passed three background checks by American
immigration officials as she moved to the United States from Pakistan. None
uncovered what Ms. Malik had made little effort to hide — that she talked
openly on social media about her views on violent jihad.
She said she supported it. And she said she wanted
to be a part of it.
But it gets worse. Not looking at her social media
postings was part of Obama Administration policy:
Fearing a civil liberties backlash and “bad public
relations” for the Obama administration, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh
Johnson refused in early 2014 to end a secret U.S. policy that prohibited
immigration officials from reviewing the social media messages of all foreign
citizens applying for U.S. visas, a former senior department official said.
“During that time period immigration officials were
not allowed to use or review social media as part of the screening process,”
John Cohen, a former acting under-secretary at DHS for intelligence and
analysis. Cohen is now a national security consultant for ABC News.
One current and one former senior counter-terrorism
official confirmed Cohen’s account about the refusal of DHS to change its
policy about the public social media posts of all foreign applicants.
And Ed Morrissey points
to one Janet Napolitano, Obama’s first DHS Secretary as the one who put this
policy in place.
But now the Obama
Administration is making noises about changing this policy. I would say better late than
never. But it’s not better for
those murdered by Malik and fiancé in San Bernardino.
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