It has been over a year since the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, and now the Pentagon’s acting inspector general, Sean O’Donnell, has said that he will be reviewing questions regarding a whistleblower’s claim that the Obiden Regime brought hundreds of individuals to the United States whose names were on a Defense Department watch list.
This from westernjournal.com.
As reported:
In late July, a Pentagon whistleblower reached out to Republican Sens. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Josh Hawley of Missouri and outlined problems stemming from the withdrawal.
The two Republican senators outlined in a letter they sent to O’Donnell on Aug. 4:
According to the whistleblower, 324 individuals were evacuated from Afghanistan and entered the U.S. despite being on the DOD’s Biometrically Enabled Watchlist.
The senators’ letter noted the whistleblower also said:
[T]here were an additional 65 individuals who are known to have entered the country without adequate vetting.
The senators wrote:
We write to you with concern over new allegations raised by a Department of Defense (DoD) whistleblower.
This information may show the [Obiden Regime’s] failure to vet those evacuated from Afghanistan was even worse than the public was led to believe.
The following allegations demand an immediate investigation by your office.
In response, O’Donnell sent a letter on Tuesday to Hawley and Johnson telling them that he will start reviewing their questions regarding the allegations once the 2023 fiscal year begins in October.
As part of our ongoing body of work on Afghan evacuees, we are initiating an evaluation, to commence in the first quarter of FY 2023, to address your questions pertaining to the DoD’s role in reviewing DoD databases for information on Afghan evacuees when requested by other agencies.
Instead, he said he would be reviewing the senators’ questions regarding the allegations since the whistleblower reached out to the senators and not to him directly.
O’Donnell also directed Hawley and Johnson to address any other additional questions to other agencies’ inspectors general.
For the remainder of the questions in your letter, we determined that the OIGs for the respective agencies with jurisdiction over those matters, copied on my response, are better suited to respond.
O’Donnell also pointed to a February report that he said:
[D]etailed the extent to which the DoD managed and tracked displaced persons from Afghanistan through the biometric enrollment, screening, and vetting process.
According to CBS News:
The Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general recently issued a report saying the department lacked ‘critical data to properly screen, vet and inspect’ evacuees last August, which said it obtained a copy of the report.
Axios said the evidence found in the DHS report likely means that at least some of the Pentagon whistleblower’s allegations are true.
Final thoughts: Given the extensive degree of corruption of the current communist regime, I’m not convinced any meaningful action will be taken. Any office of Inspector General is only as good as the ethics and ability of the Inspector General and entire staff.
I give you the U.S. Supreme Court as an example. Of the nine justices, perhaps all but four are ethically and/or politically compromised. And each of those four were subjected to challenging, threatening confirmation hearings. Fright may be compromising their decisions.
