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President Joe Biden’s national agencies knowingly resettled 400 Afghans listed as “potential threats to nationalist security” last year, a whistleblower said.
Following the U.S. Armed Forces’ withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021, Biden opened a refugee and parole pipeline for tens of thousands of Afghans to be flown into American communities.
These Afghan refugees were not interviewed or screened before coming over.
Biden has resettled more than 85,000 Afghans across 46 states since mid-August 2021 and plans to continue resettling more this year.
These allegations were revealed in a letter from Senators Josh Hawley and Ron Johnson to the Department of Defense Inspector General. They wrote:
We write to you with concern over new allegations raised by a Department of Defense (DoD) whistleblower. This information may show the Biden Administration’s failure to vet those evacuated from Afghanistan was even worse than the public was led to believe. The following allegations demand an immediate investigation by your office.
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A patriotic whistleblower paints an even darker picture. According to new allegations, 324 individuals evacuated from Afghanistan were allowed to enter the United States, despite appearing on the DoD’s Biometrically Enabled Watchlist (BEWL). The BEWL—commonly known as “the watch list”—identifies individuals whose biometrics have been collected and determined by analysts to be threats or potential threats to national security, including known suspected terrorists (KST). This is in addition to the reportedly 65 individuals who are known to have entered the country without adequate vetting.
Furthermore, the whistleblower alleges that political appointees at the National Security Council (NSC) and DoD instructed agency personnel to cut corners when processing evacuees in Afghanistan and at staging bases in Europe, also known as “lily pads.” According to the whistleblower rather than administer fingerprint tests on all ten fingers, personnel were told to abbreviate their tests in order to promote the rushed evacuation from Afghanistan.
Finally, it is alleged that personnel at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) who work on vetting Afghan evacuees have been authorized to delete old biometric data, whenever they personally believed that such information is out of date. This is a troubling development that could threaten national security and public safety.
These new allegations come after a Department of Defense Inspector General report revealed that Biden’s agencies failed to vet Afghans arriving in the United States. The report says that as of November 2021, fifty Afghans already in the U.S. had been flagged for “significant security concerns.”
Most of the unvented Afghans that were flagged for possible ties to terrorism have since disappeared into the nation’s interior.
A Project Veritas report alleges that the Biden administration resettled Afghans that were listed on the federal government’s “Terrorism Watch List”.
Afghans will continue to be resettled in the United States.
Biden’s Department of Homeland Security announced in June that Afghans who “provided … limited material support” to terrorist organizations would still be able to qualify for resettlement in American communities.
