On Thursday, there was a lot of fireworks when the Senate Judiciary Committee grilled FBI Director Christopher Wray. Wray received the boot from Ted Cruz, a Republican in Texas. Chuck Grassley was also criticized by Wray for trying to stop Republicans answering his questions.
But that wasn’t the only concerning news of the day.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) also raised a whistleblower report that was made by him and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) that the Biden Administration had evacuated and resettled 324 people who were on the Pentagon’s “watch list,” including known, suspected terrorists.
NEW whistleblower allegations – hundreds of Afghan evacuees who appeared on DOD terror watch list allowed to enter the U.S. @SenRonJohnson and I lay out what we’ve learned pic.twitter.com/zBHlVB0ujE
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) August 4, 2022
Fox News reported in February that at least 50 Afghan evacuees were brought to the U.S. in the wake of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan whose information indicated “potentially serious security concerns.” The information came in a Pentagon inspector general report, which revealed that U.S. government officials were unable to locate dozens of those individuals who had “derogatory information” that would make them ineligible for parole.
A footnote in that inspector general report stated that the “significant security concerns include individuals whose latent fingerprints have been found on improvised explosive devices and known or suspected terrorists” and for which officials would send that derogatory information to appropriate Pentagon personnel.
They can’t even locate these people–so they can’t even watch them. That’s how bad it is.
Hawley asked during the hearing if Wray understood that number wasn’t just 50 but 324 who posed a “graver” situation, according to the whistleblower.
Wray claimed they were actively trying to investigate a number of the cases, but he didn’t know the status of any of those cases.
Wray told the committee that the joint-terrorism task forces are “engaged in the effort to investigate potential terrorist activity, and any number of them would potentially involve people who came from Afghanistan.”
Chuck Grassley of Iowa, the Ranking Member on the Committee, asked Wray if he knows the location in the U.S. where flagged evacuees were located.
“We have a lot of information about where people are located,” Wray said. “I can’t sit here right now and say we know where all are located at any given time.”
Translation: Who knows what?
What is the secret to this? The whistleblower claims that the DoD and White House told people to save money and not properly vet refugees. The people were not properly fingerprinted and the DoD told them to erase data.
Sen. @HawleyMOAsks FBI Director for information about whistleblower complaints that FBI personnel were instructed to reduce processing time when handling Afghan evacuees pic.twitter.com/bZTQ6Huygo
— MRCTV (@mrctv) August 4, 2022
“We know that hundreds of people potentially connected to terrorism are loose in this country,” Hawley said, because of what the Biden team has done.
Hawley and Johnson are demanding that the Pentagon’s Acting Inspector General investigate the claims by the whistleblower.
Biden claimed people were being thoroughly vetted, but we knew from the start that this was a fabrication. Not only did they abandon the people they owed an obligations to, but they also brought in others to increase the number. These were people whom we didn’t have any connection to, and now it’s confirmed that they didn’t properly check, intentionally, thus endangering us all.
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