Tashfeen Malik’s Jihadist Social-Media Posts Were Deliberately Ignored by the Feds
by ANDREW C. MCCARTHY December 15, 2015 12:00 PM
San Bernardino mass-murderer Tashfeen Malik wrote social-media posts that endorsed jihad and expressed disdain for America.
Yet, that did not cause U.S. immigration agents to question her admission into our country, much less deny it.
In fact, our government consciously avoided learning about Malik’s Islamist rants.
Commentators stunned by this dereliction are attributing it to “secret” guidance issued by the Department of Homeland Security.
In truth, there is nothing secret about it. The instruction to refrain from scrutinizing social-media commentary, a precious source of intelligence, is a straightforward application of what passes for the official Obama administration “anti”-terrorism strategy, known as “Countering Violent Extremism.”
Malik, a native Pakistani, who immigrated to the United States in July after living for a time in Saudi Arabia, joined her husband, Syed Rizwan Farook, in slaying 14 people in San Bernardino, Calif., earlier this month.
The jihad’s Bonnie and Clyde were finally killed in a gun battle with police.
Government officials now concede that Malik was inadequately screened before being permitted to relocate to the United States on a K-1 visa, issued because she was the fiancée of Farook, an American citizen.
The couple married soon after her immigration. Malik’s visa approval was already the stuff of scandal even before the latest revelations — especially in light of President Obama’s plan to admit thousands of immigrants from Syria and other bastions of Islamic supremacism, which inevitably breeds violent jihadism.
Right after the massacre, it emerged that Malik had provided government screeners with a fake Pakistani address. She may also have been educated in a notoriously anti-Western madrassa. Neither fact was discovered during the vetting process.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/428540/tashfeen-malik-social-media-ignored-dhs
by ANDREW C. MCCARTHY December 15, 2015 12:00 PM
San Bernardino mass-murderer Tashfeen Malik wrote social-media posts that endorsed jihad and expressed disdain for America.
Yet, that did not cause U.S. immigration agents to question her admission into our country, much less deny it.
In fact, our government consciously avoided learning about Malik’s Islamist rants.
Commentators stunned by this dereliction are attributing it to “secret” guidance issued by the Department of Homeland Security.
In truth, there is nothing secret about it. The instruction to refrain from scrutinizing social-media commentary, a precious source of intelligence, is a straightforward application of what passes for the official Obama administration “anti”-terrorism strategy, known as “Countering Violent Extremism.”
Malik, a native Pakistani, who immigrated to the United States in July after living for a time in Saudi Arabia, joined her husband, Syed Rizwan Farook, in slaying 14 people in San Bernardino, Calif., earlier this month.
The jihad’s Bonnie and Clyde were finally killed in a gun battle with police.
Government officials now concede that Malik was inadequately screened before being permitted to relocate to the United States on a K-1 visa, issued because she was the fiancée of Farook, an American citizen.
The couple married soon after her immigration. Malik’s visa approval was already the stuff of scandal even before the latest revelations — especially in light of President Obama’s plan to admit thousands of immigrants from Syria and other bastions of Islamic supremacism, which inevitably breeds violent jihadism.
Right after the massacre, it emerged that Malik had provided government screeners with a fake Pakistani address. She may also have been educated in a notoriously anti-Western madrassa. Neither fact was discovered during the vetting process.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/428540/tashfeen-malik-social-media-ignored-dhs
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