San Bernadino Killer Could Have Been Discovered Before Entering USA

While everyone is allowed to express themselves through speech, those who threaten the United States not be granted a visa to enter the country. Instead of checking visa applicants backgrounds on the internet to determine if the person is a threat, Department of Homeland Security is prohibited from searching social networks to look for trouble with visa applicants.


The policies of the federal government are the opposite of keeping us safe. Checking social networks would have prevented entry by one of the San Bernadino killers.

The State Department today said that “obviously things went wrong” in the visa background check for one of the San Bernardino shooters -- comments that came in the wake of an ABC News report that said officials by policy generally do not check social media postings of applicants due to civil liberties concerns and therefore would not have seen purported evidence of Tashfeen Malik’s radicalization online.