She said she supported it. And she said she wanted to be a part of it.
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Law enforcement reportedly is using the previously unreported postings to build a profile of the lives of the couple – Malik and Syed Rizwan Farook, as they planned the terrorist attack at Farook’s workplace. “In cases where those lists don’t hit, there’s nothing that distinguishes them from people we would love to welcome to this country”.
Immigration officials don’t usually check social media as part of their background checks and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) remains undecided on whether it is appropriate, the Times reported.
Farook’s longtime friend and relative-through-marriage, Enrique Marquez, bought the assault rifles used in the shooting more than three years ago, about the time he converted to Islam, San Bernardino Sun quoted a law enforcement official as saying.
As more details emerge on the couple, officials are also pursuing clues on who their contacts were.
President Barack Obama has now ordered a review of the K-1 program. “Clearly, the social media has placed a whole new burden and a whole new set of questions, but not impossible ones to resolve, and I think we need to look at this very, very carefully – which is what we’re doing – before we jump to any wholesale prohibition without understanding what the implications may be”.
In an era when technology has given intelligence agencies seemingly limitless ability to collect information on people, it may seem surprising that a Facebook or Twitter post could go unnoticed in a background screening. The dive teams were looking to see if they left or stored anything there, the senior official said.
“All applicable security checks were done for that individual, Ms. Malik”, said Edward Ramotowski, the department’s deputy assistant for visa services told another Senate panel.
“That assumes, and this investigation is still under way, that there were flags that were raised or should have been raised in the process of her admission to the United States, and I am not prepared to say that and I’m not prepared to make that declaration”, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said Monday. The Department of State then reviewed her fingerprints against other databases and she was thoroughly reviewed once more after she applied for a green card. Finally, after coming to the United States and formally marrying Mr. Farook here, she applied for her green card and received another round of criminal and security checks.
Malik moved from Pakistan to the United States on a fiance visa. All those reviews came back clear, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation has said it had no incriminating information about her or her husband in its databases. The State Department and the Department of Homeland Security have said they followed all policies and procedures. Specifically noting that the process did not detect the radicalization. Social media contain is seldom contained. First, Homeland Security checked her name against law enforcement and national security databases.
They are seeking the electronic trail of the killers and trying to find out whom they interacted with, how they hatched and carried out the plot, and why.
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Divers recovered items during their search of Seccombe Lake, FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said. However, officials would not specify what was found or if it was relevant to the investigation. Because she was applying for a fiancee visa, the interview primarily sought to prove she knew Farook and really was in a relationship with him.
