{"id":80653,"date":"2018-07-18T09:57:31","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T13:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=80653"},"modified":"2018-07-18T09:57:31","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T13:57:31","slug":"security-concerns-led-to-weeding-out-foreign-born-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=80653","title":{"rendered":"Security concerns led to “weeding out” foreign-born troops"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to the Military Times<\/a>, Pentagon officials were concerned that foreign-born recruits had falsified their backgrounds when they tried to enlist. For that reason, they started culling the herd of recruits;<\/p>\n

In a statement filed by Roger Smith, branch chief for personnel security policy at the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, DoD argued that regular reviews of the program found security holes, including that some applicants could not be vetted because the U.S. lacked \u201caccess and the ability to conduct standard security screening and interviews with associates, friends, and family members, as many [Military Accessions Vital to the National Interest (MAVNI)] soldiers are from nations who remain hostile to the United States or do not have data-sharing agreements with the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition, in his statement Smith said that through a 2016 review, DoD found that \u201c(1) a number of individuals accessed into the military based on receiving fraudulent visas to attend universities that did not exist; (2) some MAVNI recruits attended, and later falsified transcripts from, universities owned by a Foreign National Security Agency and a State Sponsored Intelligence Organization (notably, most of the university classmates of one MAVNI recruit later worked for the same State Sponsored Intelligence Organization); and (3) one MAVNI recruit who entered the United States on a student visa professed support for 9\/11 terrorists and said he would voluntarily help China in a crisis situation.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Another MAVNI recruit had family connections to foreign military entities. <\/p>\n

In DoD\u2019s judgment, these examples indicated that sufficient vetting of MAVNI personnel was not occurring at the accessions stage, contrary to the goal of avoiding altogether the accessions of individuals who present potential counter-intelligence, security, or insider threats.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I guess Associated Press reports aren’t as interested in the story now as they were a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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