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Lazamataz is fading away!
Posted on 04/29/2011 10:06:49 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Three people convicted of crimes as a result of a terrorism-related investigation by the Department of Justice (DOJ) were later naturalized as U.S. citizens by the Obama administration, according to federal auditors.
The March 2011 audit (released on April 21, 2011) by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), entitled Criminal Alien Statistics: Information on Incarcerations, Arrests and Costs, shows that three individuals were among “defendants where the investigation involved an identified link to international terrorism but they were charged with violating other statutes [not directly related to terrorism], including fraud, immigration, drugs, false statements, and general conspiracy charges,” referred by DOJ as Category II terrorism-related cases.
The three individuals in question can be found in a DOJ list of unsealed terrorism-related investigations conducted from Sept. 11, 2001 through Mar. 18, 2010. There are 403 defendants on that list of which, according to the GAO, at least 43 percent were aliens--both legal (26 percent) and illegal (17 percent)--at the time they were charged with crimes.
“Prosecuting terror-related targets using Category II offenses and others is often an effective method--and sometimes the only available method--of deterring and disrupting potential terrorist planning and support activities,” explained the DOJ in the document that listed the defendants.
Staff members of GAO's Homeland Security and Justice team who worked on the audit told CNSNews.com in an e-mail that the three individuals were naturalized as U.S. citizens under President Barack Obama.
“One of the individuals was naturalized in late 2009. The other two were naturalized in 2010,” says the e-mail from the GAO.
Let me guess: they are all working as White House Czars now?
H/T to the Drudge Report.
Does “IMPEACHMENT” come to mind?
Obama administration supports terrorists
kind of hard to make that case in front of SCoTUS considering a third of them are suspect for conflict of interest .. ie: also incompetent or is that incontinent? :-)
EatB,
Read this earlier! Still looking for my jaw. Think it’s under a file cabinet.
Wow! Treason?
If this is going to have any traction CNS has to post names and addresses of these people.
bttt
The hot link in the article to the names isn’t working for me. Could you possibly post another link? Thanks. I just get a message that the file cannot be found.
That is all I have.
Incompetence?
Understatement of the day!
Thanks for the ping EatB. Upon reading this article I wonder if the three of them turned what I would normally call “States Evidence”, but in this case will tongue in cheek state “Left’s Evidence” in order to gain citizenship.
This administration of the Street Punk in Chief’s works in quite mysterious ways.
CRIMINAL ALIEN STATISTICS Information on Incarcerations, Arrests, and Costs
Based upon our analysis of USCIS and DOJ data, three of the individuals on the DOJ list received U.S. citizenship after their convictions. Two were convicted of unlawful production of an identity document and one was convicted of transferring funds out of the country in violation of U.S. sanctions.
According to USCIS documentation, in all three cases
• the convictions were outside of the statutory period, were not aggravated felonies, and resulted in no prison time for the defendants;
• all required background checks were conducted and resolved with appropriate law enforcement agencies; and
• no national security, public safety, or other grounds of ineligibility existed.
As a result, USCIS determined that each of these individuals were able to demonstrate good moral character within the required period of time and met all other requirements for naturalization.
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no wonder they dont have time to do the work on my wife’s green card application...
WTF? And when I look at the time and money I spent to come here legally with my husband and be naturalized, this makes me sick
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