On Wednesday, House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark E. Green, MD (R-TN) released the following statement after a shocking report by Fox News’ Jacqui Heinrich that Biden-Harris administration officials misrepresented the level of vetting conducted on Afghan national Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi. Released into the United States in September 2021 following the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal, Tawhedi was arrested earlier this month for plotting an Election Day terrorist attack in Oklahoma.
“This report demonstrates, at best, pure incompetence, and at worst, outright deception by the Biden-Harris administration. Americans ought to be enraged, not just by the Biden-Harris administration’s mass-parole of nearly 80,000 Afghans in our country—many of whom were not sufficiently vetted—but also by the administration’s lack of forthrightness. The Biden-Harris administration’s claims about vetting were never truly feasible, particularly at the level needed for the ‘Special Immigrant Visa’ that officials have claimed Tawhedi received.
“If true, these revelations cast into question everything else we have been told by this administration. What other vetting failures are currently at large in our communities, plotting similar evil against Americans? We deserve answers, and a change in policy, before innocent Americans suffer the consequences.”
