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US Officials Admit Concern Over Syrian Refugee Effort (Is Obama letting ISIS in?)
ABC News ^ | 2/17/2015 | JUSTIN FISHEL AND MIKE LEVINE

Posted on 02/17/2015 5:50:17 PM PST by Beave Meister

Top U.S. counterterrorism officials say they worry a potential terrorist could be hiding among refugees who are looking to come to the United States after escaping the brutal war in Syria.

"It's clearly a population of concern,” the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Nicholas Rasmussen, told the House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday.

Committee Chairman Mike McCaul, R-Texas, went further, saying it would be a “huge mistake” to bring refugees from the conflict to the U.S. – even as an estimated 4 million children, women and men have been forced to flee Syria and another 7 million have been displaced from their homes there, unable to leave.

Senior officials leading the State Department’s refugee efforts say the U.S. government has a long history of caring for the innocent victims of war.

“It’s not a matter of should we do it, it’s really a matter of how we do it,” Larry Bartlett, the State Department’s director of Refugee Admission for the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration, told ABC News. “One of the fundamental principles of our country is that we care about others. We will help others.”

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: bureauofpopulation; cia; fbi; homelandsecurity; isis; liberals; migration; obama; refugees; statedepartmen; statedepartment; syria; us
Let the revolution be televised.....
1 posted on 02/17/2015 5:50:17 PM PST by Beave Meister
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To: Beave Meister

Is water wet?


2 posted on 02/17/2015 5:55:31 PM PST by Lake Living
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To: Beave Meister

If they’re Christians, I’m all for it. Even the Yazidis and other minorities.

However, I know better to think it’ll be nothing but Muslims.


3 posted on 02/17/2015 5:56:17 PM PST by Shadow44
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To: Beave Meister
there getting the kid used to wearing a suit....and then theyll scrub off his warpaint and hide his ISIS WAR Headress!


4 posted on 02/17/2015 5:57:40 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Beave Meister

““It’s not a matter of should we do it, it’s really a matter of how we do it,” Larry Bartlett, the State Department’s director of Refugee Admission for the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration, told ABC News. “One of the fundamental principles of our country is that we care about others. We will help others.”

government stooge. yeah, we care more about these poor Syrians than we do about the welfare and protection of the American citizenry.


5 posted on 02/17/2015 5:59:10 PM PST by IWONDR
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To: Beave Meister
One of the fundamental principles of our country is that we care about others. We will help others.

Really? Perhaps there's a list of "fundamental principles" known only to the State Department. If so, I'd like to read it.

This is liberal-speak for "we want to do it and you're a bad person if you even question it." In short, it's crap.

6 posted on 02/17/2015 6:00:41 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Beave Meister

“...a potential terrorist could be hiding among refugees...”

DOH!!!...(why didn’t I think of that? /s)


7 posted on 02/17/2015 6:02:30 PM PST by EagleUSA (Liberalism removes the significance of everything")
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To: Shadow44

Americastan is here and thriving. Seldom can I go to the local Mall without see a group (or two) of tents with eyes and a bearded handler following. I always look the handler in the eye and snicker. Just my subtle way of protesting.


8 posted on 02/17/2015 6:06:59 PM PST by doc1019 (Blue lives matter)
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To: Beave Meister

We’re training them to kill first.


9 posted on 02/17/2015 6:15:21 PM PST by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: EagleUSA

Obama is ISIS.


10 posted on 02/17/2015 6:46:56 PM PST by jospehm20
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To: Beave Meister
(Is Obama letting ISIS in?)

Yes, of course he's letting them in. It's his jobs program.

11 posted on 02/17/2015 6:48:10 PM PST by Colorado Doug (Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
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To: Beave Meister

Obama did not become President to help Citizens of the United States


12 posted on 02/17/2015 6:56:15 PM PST by molson209 (Blank)
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To: Beave Meister

Put them all in NYC!


13 posted on 02/17/2015 7:08:10 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Helping him cinch up his homicide vest?


14 posted on 02/17/2015 7:40:48 PM PST by The Sons of Liberty (Some say I hate 0bama; "HATE" is a strong word, but in this case NOT STRONG ENOUGH!!)
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To: molson209

How true it is!


15 posted on 02/17/2015 8:06:20 PM PST by mcshot (I pray someone comes forth with the strength, fortitude and burning desire to save our Republic)
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To: Beave Meister

Bringing them here is insane. At what point does BHO endanger our country so badly they have to just physically remove him from office? Its almost getting to the point of treason.


16 posted on 02/17/2015 8:15:04 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

This is why B. Hussein Obama does dot refer to terrorists as Islamic. Since he is bringing so many here he needs to downplay this as not alarming. it’s all just strategy.


17 posted on 02/17/2015 8:47:04 PM PST by inchworm
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To: Beave Meister
King Obama has already let ISIS in along with probably the worst criminals in the world. His main objective is to destroy America and he has done a great job.
18 posted on 02/17/2015 9:01:52 PM PST by Logical me
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To: inchworm

This is not incompetence. This is very deliberate.


19 posted on 02/18/2015 5:16:41 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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