Saudi Air Force Lt. Mohammed Alshamrani, the gunman behind the Pensacola attack, has been the subject of a lot of review since the attack, in which he killed three and wounded eight others.
In response to the attack, the Pentagon has put active training of thousands of foreign troops in the US on hold. Though Pentagon officials have said they don’t envision ending that, they did say they want to review the vetting of those foreigners.
Pentagon officials now say that they’ve concluded Alshamrani had a perfectly rigorous vetting process, and that there was no problem detected. He set off no alarms at all in the vetting.
This doesn’t counsel any changes, and while the Pentagon hasn’t indicated how much change is likely to come, this report suggests that they are not clear they did anything wrong in the lead-up to the shooting.
Great vetting process!
I accept that he was subjected to the standard vetting. That is obviously no guarantee.
Where is the glorious FBI, CIA, NSA, and all the 14 other “intelligence” agency’s ??,,another failure just like all the others!! Pull their funding and start from scratch! Hold them accountable!
just flipped out, who would have known?
Why should anyone question the Pentagon? Just because they “dismissed” the Afghanistan papers? Or they won’t give metrics on how that war is going? Or why there are 600 trucks, one for every soldier, at the Syrian oil fields? And that’s just todays little tidbits.
Pentagon Perfect.
Is it my imagination ? or does having terrorism around just mean job security to these guys….
With sales of American war-making materiel to the Kingdom in the 12-figures, who would blame the screeners for some oversights and exceptions?