by Jeff Childers
CBS ran a story yesterday headlined, “Afghan national charged with planning Election Day attack previously worked for CIA in Afghanistan.” Of course he did.
CLIP: DHS Secretary Mayorkas dodges questions about admitting terrorist into US (2:12).
Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi was arrested on Monday in Oklahoma City for planning a massive Election-day terror attack. He is an Afghani national enjoying benefits in the United States under a DHS parole program. The complaint erroneously said he held a special immigrant visa, which the State Department quickly denied.
In other words, the Department of Homeland Security pulled some strings to get Ahmad into the country.
It then turned out ISIS terrorist Ahmad used to work for the CIA in Afghanistan. According to the DOJ complaint, Ahmad “conspired and attempted to provide material support to ISIS and obtained firearms and ammunition to conduct a violent attack on U.S. soil in the name of ISIS.” On Election Day.
ISIS is allegedly an enemy terrorist organization. It was in the news recently for its Crokus City Hall massacre in Moscow. The Russians claim ISIS is a CIA front group that the agency uses for its murderous, illegal black operations. The CIA calls that “misinformation.”
Tuesday’s unsealed complaint alleged that Ahmad had recently sold his home (he bought a home??) and all his stuff, to buy weapons and ammo and a ticket back to Afghanistan. After his arrest, Ahmad admitted to cops that he and his brother bought weapons for the Election Day attack. They planned to target large gatherings of people and “expected to be martyred.”
At Thursday’s White House press briefing, triply-diverse White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre refused to answer questions about Ahmad’s case, citing an ongoing investigation, but insisted that “every Afghan national who entered the U.S. was screened and vetted by intelligence, law enforcement, counterterrorism professionals.”
As Roman poet Juvenal satirically asked, quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
