A new Pentagon audit of last year’s U.S. military-led civilian evacuation of Afghanistan found that dozens of Afghans considered potentially dangerous were brought to the United States. According to the Department of Defense (DoD) Inspector General report (pdf) published Tuesday, DoD’s National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC) has identified “50 Afghan personnel in the United States with information in DoD records that would indicate potentially significant security concerns.” And NGIC has not located most of those Afghan individuals. The report says, for example, the agency made an attempt in September 2021 to locate 31 of the security risk Afghans, and “of those 31, only 3 could be located.” The report also says the National Counterterrorism Center (NTCT) was not accessing all available data from the Pentagon when vetting Afghan refugees that came over during the evacuation. This is reviving concerns about the screening process used for Operation Allies Welcome—a resettlement plan …
Pentagon Audit Shows Dozens of Afghans With ‘Security Concerns’ Were Let Into US
February 18, 2022
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