Posted on 12/13/2015 3:27:06 AM PST by markomalley
Tashfeen Malik, the Pakistani woman who killed 14 people with her husband in San Bernardino earlier this month, openly advocated violent jihad on her social media accounts before coming to the U.S., but government officials approved her fiancee visa anyway, The New York Times reports.
Law enforcement officials discovered the posts, according to The Times. Had authorities found the messages when Malik applied last year for a K-1 fiancee visa to come to the U.S. with her husband, Syed Farook, she likely would not have been approved for entry. But, as The Times notes, immigration officials rarely check applicants’ social media posts for red flags. And female applicants are generally subject to less scrutiny than male applicants.
As one former senior Homeland Security Investigations officials told The Times, visa applicants’ identities are run against federal terror watch list databases, and if the person is not flagged during that process, they are usually not subject to further investigation.
Malik, who was born in Pakistan but grew up in Saudi Arabia, went through three separate screenings before being granted a green card. That despite the reportedly inflammatory social media posts and her reported association with radical elements as a student in Pakistan.
The first screening Malik went through was a criminal background and national security database check conducted by the Department of Homeland Security. The State Department conducted the second check, when the agency compared her fingerprints against national security databases. Lastly, she was interviewed by officials in the U.S. when she applied for her green card after marrying Farook.
The 29-year-old Malik also went through two in-person interviews, The Times reported — one with a consular officer in Pakistan and the other with an immigration officer in the U.S. during the green card application process.
Farook, who was born in Chicago and is of Pakistani descent, was also vetted by the feds. His background reportedly came back clean as well, as he was not on federal terror watch lists or a no-fly list.
That, too, has become a cause of concern. Farook was reportedly in the same social circle as one of four men arrested near San Bernardino in 2012 for plotting to recruit al-Qaeda fighters. It is still unclear how close Farook was to the would-be recruiter, who was recently sentenced to 25 years in prison for providing material support to terrorists.
IF I HAD ANOTHER DAUGHTER SHE WOULD BE JUST LIKE TASHKEEN!
BHO
IF I HAD ANOTHER DAUGHTER SHE WOULD BE JUST LIKE TASHFEEN!
BHO
The enemy (ISIS, AQ, whatever) takes great pleasure in proving Omuslim wrong every time he opens his lying mouth.
Jayvee team (look at territory now held, etc.)
Contained (Paris)
Not an existential threat (San Bernadino)
Apparently they’re scared of widows [women] and orphans coming into the United States of America,” (Tashfeen Malik)
I’m almost afraid of what he’ll say next & what the terrorist response will be.
Meanwhile, he and his administration continue to scuttle the good ship America - they’ve opened all the valves & hatches to flood the country with illegal aliens and terrorist & they’re ripping holes in the hull by ignoring laws, illegal EOs, trying to take away the ability of the people to defend themselves, asserting control & removing freedom wherever possible & ignoring or running roughshod over the Constitution.
So the media’s frivolous, folly now is “jihadi bride”
I agree with you about universal monitoring of our online postings. We don't need that.
But spying on foreigners is what NSA does for a living. And that spying is done without limits (on foreigners) unless they are placed there by the Administration Policy or by law. There is absolutely no reason to prohibit NSA from plugging in a query to their huge database system to look for Tashfeen Malik + All Social Media and see what pops up.
I'm betting that wasn't done and it wasn't done on purpose.
A step too far, yes, but we already operate on the assumption it does.
“There are striking parallels between him and Winston Churchill.”
I just said that in another thread ;)
All part of the Coward-Piven plan. We need to fight it now or be destroyed.
Probably one of the best one’s I’ve heard.
Woman from Isreal last night On Judge Jenine
You ask about the family mother father brothers and sisters aunts and uncles...and check them.
Terrorists tends to be a family affair.
she may even BE a lily white that no one COULD discover ... thus validating the call to evict every one of them, and closing it off FOR every one of them
AND THAT IS THE TACK TRUMP SHOULD TAKE !!!
They already are.....
Every second 24/7/365.24219
Use that same picture and put
This time it was 14 adults
Next time it may be your children
Thank you Obama
Yet they want all phone records of loyal non-muslims.
Thank Goodness our wonderful, effective, competent government employees are protecting us. We are so fortunate to have such people working for us.
Thanks, Barahq
I’ve said for years there are operatives who are rubber stamping these visas. There are operatives throughout ICE, FBI, CIA, Homeland, BP, etc. Someone needs to check the bank accounts and associates of everyone who signed off on her. Then, continue checking everyone those people they’ve rubber stamped.
I have had a bank account since I was 17-—now 76. 10 years ago, when I moved I had to bring all kinds of records to open a new bank account under the Patriot Act. Born here-—only out of the USA 2 times many years ago to visit Mexican border towns-—when it was still safe to do so.
The complete breakdown of the various departments we are told to trust & support & believe in inside this administration is very troubling.
Obama wants Americans to offer COMPASSION to the invaders from the Middle East, and to suspend our normal references we use when trying to determine if we should trust someone—even a neighbor or a new aquaintance or a co-worker.
Our parents & teachers taught us to be careful in trusting persons, and Obama wants to flood this country with people who hate us, hate our religionS and hate our way of life & our success.
Such decision making abilities are deeply ingrained in most of us, especially over 45 years of age.
COMPASSION will NOT replace TRUST in my house. It should NOT in yours, either.
This swarm of ‘refugees’ is nothing more than a modern TROJAN HORSE, IMO.
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