The federal government does not have the ability to screen out terrorists from the Syrian refugees that President Obama wants to bring into the country, said FBI director James Comey in a statement last month before a House Committee on Homeland Security hearing. He observed that “We can only query against that which we have collected. And so if someone has never made a ripple in the pond in Syria in a way that would get their identity or their interest reflected in our database, we can query our database until the cows come home, but there will be nothing show up because we have no record of them.”
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