The man accused of taking hostages in a Texas synagogue over the weekend was screened before entering the United States but the screenings raised no red flags, according to the White House. “Our understanding—and, obviously, we’re still looking into this—is that he was checked against U.S. government databases multiple times prior to entering the country, and the U.S. government did not have any derogatory information about the individual in our systems at the time of entry,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters in Washington on Tuesday. Malik Faisal Akram, 44, has been identified by law enforcement as the armed man who ended up dead after U.S. authorities rushed into Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville on Saturday. Malik Akram, a British national, was on the watch list of MI5, the British security service, according to British media reports. British media said he was probed by MI5 as a possible terrorist …