In a Friday morning appearance on Fox News’ Fox & Friends, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard said the Biden administration had let more than 2,000 Afghan nationals with terrorism ties into the United States in the wake of the 2021 botched Afghanistan withdrawal. The startling number was revealed just weeks after two members of the West Virginia National Guard guarding the streets of Washington, D.C., were ambushed – one died of her injuries and the other is still in the hospital recovering – by an Afghan man who was brought to the U.S. as part of Biden’s Operation Allies Welcome program.
According to DNI Gabbard, however, many of these Afghans now residing in the country aren’t our allies, even if they did once work alongside our troops. She revealed that 100,000 poorly-vetted Afghans came to U.S. after the withdrawal, and of that number, “there are at least 2,000 who are known or suspected terrorists.”
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And that’s just the ones we know about. As Gabbard pointed out, millions of unvetted foreign nationals streamed over the southern border during the Biden administration, so we’re looking at untold numbers of Islamists and persons with terrorist ties of all kinds lurking in our communities.
Those numbers come via the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), which is part of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Joe Kent, NCTC’s director, has been sounding the alarm “over the Biden admin’s policy of importing people hostile to our nation,” and told a Thursday meeting of the House Homeland Security Committee that the suspected Guardsmen shooter did not undergo rigorous vetting before he and his family were brought to the U.S.
“The individual was vetted to serve as a soldier in Afghanistan, and that vetting standard was used by the Biden administration as a ruse to bring him here,” Kent replied. “Had we followed the Standard Operating Procedures for special immigrant visas, that individual and none of the (others) … would have come to America. That’s on Joe Biden.”
(It was at this hearing that Democrat Rep. Bennie Thompson (MS-2) made his now-infamous “accident” blunder when talking about the ambush on the Guardsmen. As RedState’s Rusty Weiss reported, Thompson was so riled up that he called the shootings an “unfortunate accident,” when we all know it was an entirely avoidable tragedy that would not have occurred had the Biden administration made the safety of Americans its number one priority.)
DNI Gabbard also revealed that the NCTC, along with its partners in the FBI and DHS, are “revetting every single one of these individuals.” She added, “We know that Al Qaeda and ISIS continue to actively plot attacks against our homeland.”
.@DNIGabbard: “We are going through and working with our partners… and actually revetting every single one of these [Afghans].” pic.twitter.com/sp3PIuAS6T
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) December 12, 2025
The news of the “revetting” apparently scares those who worked to bring so many Afghan nationals into U.S. communities. “So what I’m actually worried is that they’re just going to use this as an excuse to go back through and look at people in a different light than that is actually required by law,” remarked Shawn VanDiver, the president of resettlement group #AfghanEvac. VanDiver added, “And we know 100% for sure that they were all vetted.”
The cleanup on Aisle Biden continues.
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