Posted on 11/16/2015 3:11:56 AM PST by markomalley
White House Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes, intent on damage control, made the rounds of the talk shows on Sunday, partly to defend President Obama's remark that ISIS has been "contained"; partly to respond to criticism that the Obama administration has underestimated the enemy; and partly to support the president's decision to let thousands of Syrian refugees into this country.
One of the bombers in Paris reportedly arrived in France with other refugees. But that won't deter the Obama administration from admitting people from Syria:
"No, Chris, we're still planning to take in Syrian refugees," Rhodes told Chris Wallace on "Fox News Sunday."
"We have very robust vetting procedures for those refugees. It involves our intelligence community, our National Counterterrorism Center, extensive interviews, vetting them against all information.
And what we need to be able to do, frankly, is sort out that foreign fighter flow, those who have gone into Syria and come out and want to launch attacks or those people who have connections with ISIL in Syria. We need to be able to have the intelligence base to identify and target those people.
"At the same time, we have to recognize there's tragic victims of this conflict, there are women, and children, orphans of this war and I think we need to do our part, along with our allies, to provide them a safe haven."
Rhodes said similar things on the other Sunday shows:
"Does the president now have any pause about bringing Syrian refugees into the United States?" NBC's Chuck Todd asked Rhodes on "Meet the Press."
"No, Chuck," Rhodes said. "We have very extensive screening procedures for all Syrian refugees who will come to the United States. There is a very careful vetting process that includes our intelligence community, our National Counterterrorism Center, the Department of Homeland Security so we can make sure that we're carefully screening anybody who comes to the United States.
"Let's remember though, Chuck, we're also dealing with people who suffer the hardest of war -- women and children, orphans -- we can't just shut our doors to those people. We need to sort out how to focus on that terrorists that we need to keep out of the country but I think we do need to do our part to take those refugees who are in need."
Appearing on CNN's "State of the Union" with Jake Tapper, Rhodes said:
"With respect to refugees, we have the most extensive security vetting that we have ever had to deal with Syrian refugees coming into the United States that involves not just the Department of Homeland Security and the State Department, but also our intelligence community, the National Counterterrorism Center, so that anybody who comes to the United States, we are carefully vetting against all of our information.
"And let's not forget, Jake, that some of these people are people who have suffered the horrors of war. They're women. They're orphans. They're children who have suffered at the hands of ISIL. We cannot close our doors to these people. We can focus on keeping terrorists out of the United States while having an open door to people who deserve a safe haven."
His remarks drew a blunt rebuttal from Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), chair of the House Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence, who spoke to "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace:
"Let me just say, Chris, I was listening to Ben Rhodes. What he said about the robust vetting about refugees is untrue. There's virtually vetting. There are no databases in Syria. There are no government records. We don't know who these people are. And when you meet with the people doing the vetting, they tell us that.
"So, this is really -- they are rolling a dice here. We know that ISIS wants to bring in terrorists with these refugees."
“Mmmmmmmmomma says...”
put them all inside the beltway, they might clean up the neighborhood.
“”Let me just say, Chris, I was listening to Ben Rhodes. What he said about the robust vetting about refugees is untrue. There’s virtually vetting. There are no databases in Syria. There are no government records. We don’t know who these people are. And when you meet with the people doing the vetting, they tell us that.” Rep. Peter King of New York
Okay Peter who in the Congress or the Senate has the courage to stand up and stop this insane policy?
That’s what I thought, NO ONE!
I’m tired of words and sound bites for TV consumption, from spineless politicians,what we need is some decisive action to stop this insanity.
Get screwed.
You people can't even vet your boss.
No Syrians in the US!
How many refugees will be sent to Chicago?
American should hold the US government personally responsible for any of the illegal actions taken by these Islamic immigrants.
If this government says anything, it is a lie. Tell me one truth (of importance) this President and his bureaucrats have spoken in the last seven years.
Don't get hung up on initial placements...no matter where they are sent initially, they're gonna be free to move about the country.
White House Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhode continues by words and actions to give aid and comfort to the enemy.
>> We have very robust vetting procedures for those refugees.
You lying sack of putrid crap. You have NOTHING approaching “robust vetting” and you KNOW it. It’s all theater.
As Ben Rhodes is the brother of David Rhodes, President of CBS News, coordinated government-media propaganda lies are all that the masses can expect. Just as it was with Benghazi or countless other leftwing fronts.
And stooges like NY's Peter King will posture with tepid disagreement without exposing the full nature of their outrages.
Welcome to Soviet America!
"Let's remember though, Chuck, we're also dealing with people who suffer the hardest of war -- women and children, orphans -- we can't just shut our doors to those people
Why can't we shut our doors to those people? Every dollar spent on these "refugees" (welfare parasites - democrat voters) has to be taken at gunpoint from some hardworking American who actually earned it, as opposed to our internal home grown welfare parasites - democrat voters. Where is the compassion for the people who actually live here legitimately and have to pay for their own families on what's left over after and ever increasing tax bite plunders the fruits of their labors?
STUPIT IS AS STUPID DOES....I sure hope ben has lots of room in his house....
Don’t bring any of those murdering SOB muzzies into my neighborhood. I don’t want them anywhere near me or my family.
Yep, the very first and every crime committed by these “refugees” charge everyone in the administration *personally* with aiding and abetting. Not a political grandstand, very much deserved. We all know, WE KNOW, they are going to commit crimes, and yet they are bringing them in anyway. Long past time these un-American $!@#% were held accountable.
Buy more ammo.
Impeach these PC morons asap.
Doubling down on stupid
If the Feds wont vet “refugees” then states should have the right to do so. The states should have the right to detain and deportd then.
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