Congressional Report Reveals Virtually None of Afghan Migrants Airlifted by Biden Were Vetted

A Congressional report presenting eyewitness accounts from government officials regarding President Joe Biden’s transportation of tens of thousands of Afghan migrants away from the country following the Taliban’s rise reveals a troubling lack of caution.
The report, summarized in reporting of the Washington Examiner by an individual familiar with the document, reveals almost none of the nearly 100,000 migrants airlifted out of Afghanistan were interviewed in-person by a representative of the federal government. The government instead relied on faulty terrorist and criminal databases, containing limited information that can’t be accurately used to assess the criminal and ideological histories of Afghan citizens.
“They created a brand new, out-of-cloth screening process just for this population. And then they told everyone, ‘This is what you follow,‘”said a federal source to the Examiner, describing the expedited process. “DOD was such a heavy part of this, and they follow orders. And so, they’re like, ‘OK, here’s the checklist. I’ll do exactly what the checklist says — no more.’ So, that’s how it happened, but it was centrally managed via DHS, the National Security Council, the White House. They said, ‘This is how we’re going to do this. And we’re going to depart significantly from the standard way of doing screening and vetting as we would in literally any other situation.’”