U.S. Rep. Stephanie Bice, R-Okla., mentioned the Biden administration has blocked the FBI from fulfilling her request for a briefing on the arrest of an Afghan man charged with plotting a terror assault on Election Day.
In a letter dated Friday to U.S. Lawyer Common Merrick Garland, Bice mentioned the FBI was totally supportive of her request till the Justice Division stepped in.
“When my office requested additional information and a briefing from the Department of Justice on this matter, my request was denied by the administration,” she wrote. “What does the Biden-Harris Division of Justice have to cover right here?
AFGHAN MAN IN OKLAHOMA PLOTTED ELECTION DAY TERROR ATTACK IN US ON BEHALF OF ISIS, JUSTICE DEPT SAYS
Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi was arrested this week for an alleged terror plot on behalf of the Islamic State. (Division of Justice)
“As a life-long resident of Oklahoma City, our community still vividly recalls the bitter memory of April 19, 1995,” Bice added, referring to the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Constructing in downtown Oklahoma Metropolis that killed 168 individuals, together with 19 kids.
She is asking for a briefing as “expeditiously” as attainable. Fox Information Digital has reached out to Bice’s workplace and the White Home.
Rep. Stephanie Bice, R-Okla., speaks throughout a information convention in Washington, D.C. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Name, Inc through Getty Pictures)
Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, an Oklahoma resident, was arrested this week for an alleged terror plot on behalf of the Islamic State. He entered the US a month after U.S. troops pulled out of Afghanistan on a Division of Homeland Safety (DHS) humanitarian parole, relatively than on a particular immigrant visa, because the Justice Division initially mentioned.
The mechanism by which Tawhedi entered the nation is very delicate as a result of the DHS inspector basic raised considerations about Operation Allies Welcome, this system by which the company paroled Afghan refugees into the nation, circumventing the lengthier and extra strenuous vetting strategy of the State Division-run particular immigrant visa, or SIV, program.
DHS OIG FAULTS AFGHAN VETTING, WARNS NATIONAL SECURITY THREATS MAY HAVE ENTERED US
In 2022, the DHS inspector basic’s workplace launched a report that mentioned it discovered officers “did not always have critical data to properly screen, vet, or inspect the evacuees.”
In consequence, “DHS may have admitted or paroled individuals into the U.S. who pose a risk to national security and the safety of local communities,” the report mentioned. Tawhedi labored for the CIA as a safety guard in Afghanistan.
Investigators mentioned they imagine Tawhedi turned radicalized after arriving within the U.S.
Whereas he entered the U.S. on humanitarian parole, he later utilized for an SIV and was authorised, a senior Biden administration official informed Fox Information.
A photograph of Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi and his kids from July (Division of Justice)
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The administration maintains Tawhedi was subjected to a number of rounds of vetting and that no pink flags had been raised.
“The unsealed criminal complaint against Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi raises continued concerns about the aftermath of the Administration’s catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan and inadequate vetting of evacuees,” Bice wrote.
