Obama’s DHS Security Secretary Says In Light of California Jihad, Continue To Give Visas to Muslims Without Reviewing Th...

When you apply for a job, most people rightly expect that your prospective employer will look at your Facebook/Instagram or other social media accounts. If you work for the government, the government tells you they will check your social media. However, Obama Security Secretary for the Department of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson had implemented a secret policy that forbade immigration official from checking an applicant’s social media posting.

Secretary Johnson said that in light of the California Muslim Jihad attack, the government would continue the same policy as before the attacks due to civil liberties concerns.

San Bernardino Jihadis Syed Farook and Tashfin Malik

Via ABC:

The State Department today said that “obviously things went wrong” in the visa background check for one of the San Bernardino shooters — comments that came in the wake of an ABC News report that said officials by policy generally do not check social media postings of applicants due to civil liberties concerns and therefore would not have seen purported evidence of Tashfeen Malik’s radicalization online.

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Fearing a civil liberties backlash and “bad public relations” for the Obama administration, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson refused in early 2014 to end the secret U.S. policy that prohibited immigration officials from reviewing the social media messages of all foreign citizens applying for U.S. visas, according to a former senior department official.

“During that time period immigration officials were not allowed to use or review social media as part of the screening process,” John Cohen, a former acting under-secretary at DHS for intelligence and analysis. Cohen is now a national security consultant for ABC News.

One current and one former senior counter-terrorism official confirmed Cohen’s account about the refusal of DHS to change its policy about the public social media posts of all foreign applicants.

It is clear about who the DHS under this administration is actually interested in protecting.

 

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