I’ll point out one odd fact that no journalist has caught up to yet.
This guy...graduated in the spring of 2013, as an electrical engineer. He goes and gets a internship with TVA in Tennessee. Oddly, because it’s a gov’t entity....it requires a security clearance and a drug test. Nineteen days after he starts this internship....they bring him in....and dismiss him (failed drug test). End of the deal.
Now, you’d sit there and think about this. Because of the failed clearance....it’ll come up, so getting a job later with a company that might do business with the gov’t on a contract....means another security clearance episode, and they will ask stupid questions which your boss will realize that you probably can’t pass the clearance and are of zero value to his company.
But there’s the thing....let’s say Muhammad had passed the clearance and gone onto a regular offer of electrical engineering with TVA. You realize....somewhere down the line....there’s Browns Ferry and the nuke plant. If he hadn’t failed....he’d be sitting there at the nuke plant in five to ten years....and likely causing an accident to trigger the deaths of just five DoD personnel.....but literally several thousand from radiation issues. In some ways, this was the better of all scenarios. However, it begs the question....how many other guys made it through the TVA clearance process and are Muslim? It might be curious to see this angle from a distance now and realize the potential impact.
TVA has head quarters offices in Chattanooga where an electrical engineer might work. Additionally,TVA Sequoyah plant is just up the river, closer than Brown’s Ferry.