{"id":63361,"date":"2015-12-18T11:35:54","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T16:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=63361"},"modified":"2015-12-18T09:03:45","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T14:03:45","slug":"thank-you-captain-obvious-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63361","title":{"rendered":"Thank You, Captain Obvious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, even a stopped clock is right twice daily.\u00a0 <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2015\/12\/17\/johnson-yes-terrorists-could-try-to-exploit-refugee-system.html\">From our &#8220;good DHS Secretary&#8221;, Jeh Johnson<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We do have to be concerned about the possibility that a terrorist organization may seek to exploit our refugee resettlement process,&#8221; he said Wednesday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Johnson further went on to say that the \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">group of fools and tools screwing things up by the numbers in DC<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 current Administration &#8220;is continuing to reevaluate&#8221; screening associated with the US refugee resettlement program.<\/p>\n<p>Gee, Mr. Secretary &#8211; ya think?\u00a0 Maybe seeing 14 killed and 20+ wounded by a terrorist who should have been refused admission to the US because of a grossly insufficient visa screening process gave him a clue.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I think Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois had the proper response: &#8220;I mean this respectfully to the secretary, but, duh.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I agree, Rep. Kinzinger.\u00a0 Even Stevie Wonder could see there was a potential problem with refugee screening months ago.\u00a0 One has to wonder why those in current Administration couldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>And speaking of screening those seeking to enter the US, here&#8217;s another bit or two of &#8220;oh so good&#8221; news.\u00a0 A senior official of the Department of State admitted when testifying before Congress the other day that it\u2019s not just so-called &#8220;refugees&#8221; that pose a security problem.\u00a0 It seems that the State department <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2015\/12\/18\/feds-cant-say-whereabouts-those-whose-visas-were-revoked-over-terror-threat.html\">has no idea of the whereabouts of literally thousands of persons admitted to the US whose visa was later revoked<\/a><\/em>. Many of those visas were revoked due to later concerns that the individual had ties to terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>Further, a senior DHS individual also confirmed in later testimony before the same Congressional committee that while pilot projects are have begun to test screening of visa applicants\u2019 social media posts, &#8220;such checks aren&#8217;t being done in an abundant manner&#8221;.\u00a0 Let me provide a plain English translation of that bit of Bureaucrat-Speak:\u00a0 &#8220;We\u2019re still trying to figure out how to do that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yep.\u00a0 It sure sounds to me like the current Administration has this issue &#8220;completely under control.&#8221;\u00a0 No need to be concerned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, even a stopped clock is right twice daily.\u00a0 From our &#8220;good DHS Secretary&#8221;, Jeh Johnson: &hellip; <a title=\"Thank You, Captain Obvious\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63361\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thank You, Captain Obvious<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,213,238,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-floggings-will-continue-until-morale-improves","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-government-incompetence","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}