Afghan CIA employee charged in US Election Day terror plot shows disaster vetting of refugees: sources
The Afghan national who is charged with plotting an ISIS-inspired Election Day massacre on American voters is just one example of the “f–king disaster” vetting of process of asylum seekers during the Biden-Harris administration’s pullout from Afghanistan, according to sources and multiple government reports.Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, reportedly worked for the CIA in Afghanistan before being welcomed into the US in September 2021 — weeks after the Taliban took over Kabul and American forces beat a hasty and disastrous retreat.
He was living in Oklahoma City on a Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) when he began stockpiling AK-47 rifles and ammunition to carry out an ISIS-inspired attack on US soil, according to the Justice Department.“They had no clue, they were just shoving them in tents.
They had no organization so we had to start from scratch.And as that was happening, we were getting flights of about 500 to 700 people in a day,” a law federal enforcement source told The Post.“The Afghanistan withdrawal will end up proving to be the worst thing that this administration did.”Tawhedi is just one of 77,000 SIV applicants from the Kabul withdrawal who were paroled into the United States for a two-year period.Technically, he and others in the program were required to re-up their parole if their cases after that.
However, the Department of Homeland Security has failed to track the parole expirations of SIV applicants once they were in the country — meaning that there was no accountability if they stayed in the country illegally, according to a DHS Inspector General report published in May.A federal watchdog later determined that the DHS “encountered obstacles to screen, vet, and inspect” the Afghan evacuees, adding that they lacked “critical data” for many of the individuals.“As a result, DHS may have admitted or paroled individuals into the United States who pose a risk to national security and the safety of local communities,” the inspector g...