DHS emails have recently revealed that the Obama administration is allowing persons with known terrorist connections into the US.
Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley made public last week an email chain between U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) asking whether to admit an individual with ties to various terrorist groups into the US.
Not only has this individual, with known ties to groups such as Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, been allowed into the US many times, but even sued when not allowed in because he was on this ‘hands-off list’.
“I’m puzzled how someone could be a member of the Muslim Brotherhood and unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation trial, be an associate of [redacted], say that the US is staging car bombings in Iraq and that [it] is ok for men to beat their wives, question who was behind the 9/11 attacks, and be afforded the luxury of a visitor visa and de-watchlisted. It doesn’t appear that we’ll be successful with denying him entry tomorrow but maybe we could re-evaluate the matter in the future since the decision to de-watchlist him was made 17 months ago,” Senator Grassley asked DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson in the emails.
When the Senator couldn’t get a sufficient response, he made this info public.
The Obama administration appears to have a terrorist “hands off” list that permits individuals with extremist ties to enter the country, according to internal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) documents obtained by a United States Senator.
It’s unimaginable that any government would do this, but it seems like the Obama administration is constantly breaking new ground. The disturbing details of this secret initiative were made public this week by Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley, who has obtained DHS electronic mail discussing what could be a terrorist “hands off” list. The exchange includes a 2012 email chain between U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) asking whether to admit an individual with ties to various terrorist groups. The individual had scheduled an upcoming flight into the U.S., according to an announcement issued by the senator.
The person was believed to be a member of the Muslim Brotherhood and a close associate and supporter Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, according to the mail exchange obtained by Grassley’s office. The terrorist suspect had also been in secondary inspection “several dozen times of the past several years,” the agency emails reveal, but had not undergone a secondary inspection since 2010. This seems to imply that the suspect has been on the U.S. government’s radar for some time.
It gets better. The DHS emails also reveal that this particular terrorism suspect has actually taken legal action against the U.S., presumably because authorities violated the hands off policy. The subject “has sued CBP twice in the past and that he’s one of the several hands off passengers nationwide,” according to the DHS emails obtained by Senator Grassley’s office. The documents go on to say that the terrorist’s records were removed and that the DHS Secretary (at the time Janet Napolitano) was involved in the matter.
This is pure insanity and the senator has tried for months to get answers from DHS. In February he wrote a letter to DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson saying this: “I’m puzzled how someone could be a member of the Muslim Brotherhood and unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation trial, be an associate of [redacted], say that the US is staging car bombings in Iraq and that [it] is ok for men to beat their wives, question who was behind the 9/11 attacks, and be afforded the luxury of a visitor visa and de-watchlisted. It doesn’t appear that we’ll be successful with denying him entry tomorrow but maybe we could re-evaluate the matter in the future since the decision to de-watchlist him was made 17 months ago.”
The agency’s response, dated April 10, apparently frustrated the senator enough to make the whole thing public this week. DHS let CBP Commissioner Gil Kerlikowske get back to Grassley. His letter says the agency does not have the authority to ignore information that renders an individual alien inadmissible because CBP does not have the discretionary authority to admit an inadmissible alien. “Accordingly, CBP does not have any list or other mechanism which would render an individual free of the grounds of inadmissibility or from any other inspection requirements, including secondary inspections,” Kerlikowske writes.
He goes on to pass the buck to another agency, the Department of Justice (DOJ). “The Terrorist Watchlist is maintained by the Terrorist Screening Center, which was created by the Attorney General and is administered by the Federal Bureau of Investigations,” the CBP commissioner writes. “All questions related to the watchlist should therefore be referred to the Department of Justice for response.” Kerlikowske also offers to provide the senator with a “more detailed briefing on the particular case cited in your letter, in the appropriate setting.” That means nothing will be put in writing so as to avoid any sort of future incrimination in the event the scandal blows wide open.
Into the White House, too!
For everyone that commented on….ppl have u not noticed everything we say is happening “is happening”!!! And everything we wanna do about we cant!!! Bcuz right now there r very few of us that realize this and the others so f@#kn distracted by other worldly things theres really no stoppin it. And ppl liks us that wanna do something about cant and all we do is just talk about it. Nothing is getting done about it, just talkin bout it!! I would love so much to do something about it,but i am so ilprepared. Ppl— america…we need to all stand up together and take our country back cuz if we dnt we wont b able to withstand what is about to come. Im not trying to sound like a know it all cuz i dnt…but i am concerned for my country for whats goin on in it, mychildren, and myself. America needs to wake up and quit sleep walkin!!!
That doesn’t surprise me.
Bringing all of his buddies and family right on into the USA ! What is really sad is OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS SITTING ON THEIR FAT ASSES AND ALLOWING ALL OF THIS TO GO ON , DO THEY THINK THEY ARE THE SPECIAL ONES THAT ARE EXEMPT FROM WHATEVER THAT THEY ARE PLANNING TO DO IN THE US??? AND THE HELL OF IT IS , WE ARE STILL PAYING THESE $#%&!@*S TO DESTROY US !! WTF ????
Kyle Bock here are some REAL terrorists
somebody please explain why he was re-elected for a second term, when everybody knew he was a noncitizen, liar, traitor, are problem is this, nobody cares enough to actually do something everyone just types out angry messages online or complain at the watercolor. how many of you have actually hand written a letter and sent it to your congress member? ok or EMAILED one. everybody just keeps tabs on their own personal wellbeing. until you lose your home, job, health insurance etc.. etc.. it’s drone on! once the tanks and armored vehicles roll up main st maybe then people will wake up. BUT by then it’ll be entirely too late! are four father’s would be ashamed of what we as Americans have allowed to happen to this once strong and beautiful country. people just dont care anymore! don’t care about anything that doesn’t effect them directly. try this sometime, just wave at the people you drive past on the highway and watch all the looks of confusion and disgust you receive. hold a door for a stranger and watch them silently walk past you. let somebody out into traffic and see if you get the OLD thanks wave. this country is what we have allowed it to become. this country, ARE country is a reflection of its citizens. you want change? then start with the person in the mirror!!
SHOOT THEM ON SIGHT! PERIOD, SEND A CLEAR MESSAGE TO ALL WHO MIGHT WANT TO FOLLOW!!!!!!!!!!!
your right Michael Tardio it begs to answer the question why did GW Bush allow Binladans family to take off and leave US airspace after 9/11???? any ideas?
you people put this traitor, non-american in office. are you happy???????????
Kyle it’s easy to understand that was obviously an inside job and our government is in bed with the Middle East