GOP senator warns thousands have been 'rushed' into US after Afghanistan withdrawal: 'Weren't properly vetted'
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Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., discusses concerns raised after an Afghan national was arrested for allegedly planning an Election Day terror plot.
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SEN. MARKWAYNE MULLIN: I was briefed a few weeks prior to this, not by the FBI, but from a different agency. What we understood is this individual was vulnerable to touch points, meaning that they were accepted in on an SIV, special immigration visa, but there's confusion if he was prior or after the withdrawal. We believe that he was rushed with an SIV after the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, and it wasn't proper vetting to actually say he was an SIV. The issue that we have here is there's thousands of individuals that [were] rushed over here because of the Harris-Biden withdrawal, and they weren't properly vetted. And when you don't probably vet them, you don't know what their touch points – touch points mean their vulnerabilities – vulnerabilities mean what can be leveraged against the individual to make them turn on their host country like this individual did. Fortunately, the FBI was doing their job. They did it correctly that no one was actually at harm, but they caught the individual. How many individuals are out there that we're not paying attention to?
Authorities announced last week the arrest of Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, an Afghan national who came to the U.S. in 2021 after the withdrawal from Afghanistan. Tawhedi is charged with conspiring and attempting to provide material support to ISIS and receiving a firearm to be used to commit a felony or a federal crime of terrorism.
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