Today on Good Morning America, John Cohen, a former acting under-secretary of the Department of Homeland Security and now a national security consultant for ABC News, dropped a bombshell: over the objections of security-minded DHS personnel, the Obama administration secretly barred DHS from looking at postings on social media by visa applicants like Tashfeen Malik:
Fearing a civil liberties backlash and "bad public relations" for the Obama administration, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson refused in early 2014 to end a secret U.S. policy that prohibited immigration officials from reviewing the social media messages of all foreign citizens applying for U.S. visas, a former senior department official said. ...
Former DHS under-secretary Cohen said he and others pressed hard for just such a policy change in 2014 that would allow a review of publicly-posted social media messages as terror group followers increasingly used Twitter and Facebook to show their allegiance to a variety of jihadist groups.
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When You're Dead, You Don't Have Any Civil Liberties
John Hinderaker spills the beans on an Obama Administration policy that intentionally blinded the United States to information that might have prevented the San Bernardino murders:
The 14 people who were murdered by Jihadists in California no longer have civil liberties. Do they count?
P.S. The idea that there is a privacy interest in what you intentionally post on social media -- that's S-O-C-I-A-L M-E-D-I-A -- is a thousand miles beyond preposterous.
P.P.S. You gotta love the idea of the government's "secretly" adopting a policy to protect civil liberties.
Hey Bill, this Administration couldn't even figure out to exclude criminals from the "suspend deportations to Haiti"--so what happens? Kesler Dufrene, a Haitian criminal, wasn't deported, wasn't detained by ICE (Davydas v. Davis) and he went on to kill three innocent people.
Bill, this Administration doesn't care. If they did, Dufrene would have been deported.
There can be no further doubt that this administration is more interested in furthering its agenda of open borders, weak immigration oversight, and Democratic Party hegemony than what should be the priority of any President- the security and welfare of Americans.