Posted on 11/19/2015 3:23:19 AM PST by markomalley
Several top Obama administration officials warned of the potential risks of accepting Syrian refugees before the Islamic State’s terrorist attacks on Paris, France last Friday.
Homeland Security secretary Jeh Johnson, according to CNS News, said Oct. 13 that the U.S. wouldn’t know a “whole lot” about potential refugees.
“One of the challenges we will have is that we’re not going to know a whole lot about the individual refugees that come forward from the UN High Commission on Refugees for Resettlement and Vetting,” he said.
At a security industry conference on Sept. 9, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said the potential for Islamic State to “infiltrate” the refugees was a major concern.
“I don’t, obviously, put it past the likes of ISIL to infiltrate operatives among these refugees, so that’s a huge concern of ours,” Clapper said.
FBI director James Comey also acknowledged at a congressional hearing on Oct. 22 that Iraq War refugees who evaded screening in the U.S. were later arrested on terrorism charges, and that even less would be known of Syrian refugees. The Washington Post reported:
Comey added in congressional testimony last month that “a number of people who were of serious concern” slipped through the screening of Iraq War refugees, including two arrested on terrorism-related charges. “There’s no doubt that was the product of a less than excellent vetting,” he said.
Although Comey said the process has since “improved dramatically,” Syrian refugees will be even harder to check because, unlike in Iraq, U.S. soldiers have not been on the ground collecting information on the local population. “If we don’t know much about somebody, there won’t be anything in our data,” he said. “I can’t sit here and offer anybody an absolute assurance that there’s no risk associated with this.”
“It is not a perfect process,” counterterrorism official Nicholas Rasmussen said Oct. 21. “There is a degree of risk attached to any screening and vetting process. We look to manage that risk as best we can.”
President Obama wants to resettle 10,000 Syrian refugees in the U.S. over the next year. A Bloomberg poll published Wednesday showed 53 percent of Americans opposed accepting Syrian refugees into the United States.
He doesn't give a rat's rear end. He is such a piece of excrement.
Vague pronouncements do not warnings make.
Evidently, the current President of the United States doesn’t care at all about the safety of the citizens of the nation.
This is quite without precedent.
With another congress, it would be grounds for impeachment.
Yes, but they took the warnings about the Tsarnaev brothers seriously.
No, wait...
Let’s just serve up a big, hearty “Welcome to America” breakfast that includes eggs. oatmeal, grits, bacon, ham, sausage, and scrapple. If you don’t touch the meat, you get shipped back home! Problem SOLVED.
Jeh must be a racist Islamiphobe.
Well then it’s up to the citizens to do the work.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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And said, send them in. All you can. Vetting, we don't need no stinkin vetting.
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Jeh must be a racist Islamiphobe.
As a country we are going to pay dearly for what that man has done.
It seems to be well-established that Obama doesn't listen to his advisers, except ValJar and maybe Mooch. He does whatever he pleases.
And, to insure that he doesn't have to even be bothered with contrary opinion, his appointments are overwhelmingly leftwing (if not outright Muslim), except in the few cases where specific technical competence is required.
Refugees -> Terror attacks on U.S. soil -> permanent martial law -> "fundamental transformation" complete -> Post-American world - just like POTUS' favorite book.
SUUUUUUUUUURE they did..
There's an old saying in computer development: "That's not a bug, that's a feature!"
The real form probably has “No” and “No”.
The Republicans ought to draft a measure proclaiming that if there are any terrorists who sneak through the system and cause terror, then Obama will be impeached. If I knowingly harbor a criminal in my home, I am breaking the law how is this any different with what Obama is doing?
Let’s see and hear dems say that is unfair on national television.
I don’t understand his intransigence on this issue, either. He is appearing totally insensitive, if not downright contemptuous, of the concerns of those is he charged to protect.
Has he made some back door promises to Iranians or other ME countries who harbor terrorists? Or to European leaders? Some kind of quid pro quo?
Maybe Congress can’t put a stop to the Syrian refugees, but hopefully they can muck up the works so much that it will delay implementation until after the 2016 election.
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