Your Blood Will Run Cold When You Hear How Many Afghans With Terror Ties Were Welcomed Into US by Biden
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During a Friday morning appearance on Fox News’ Fox & Friends, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said the Biden administration allowed more than 2,000 Afghan nationals with known or suspected ties to terrorism into the United States following the chaotic 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Gabbard’s remarks came just weeks after a deadly ambush in Washington, D.C., in which two members of the West Virginia National Guard were attacked while on security duty. One Guardsman later died from her injuries, while the other remains hospitalized. Authorities identified the suspect as an Afghan national who entered the United States under the Biden administration’s Operation Allies Welcome program.
According to Gabbard, many of the Afghans resettled in the U.S. were not properly vetted. She stated that approximately 100,000 Afghan nationals were admitted after the withdrawal and that “at least 2,000 are known or suspected terrorists.” She emphasized that those figures reflect only individuals already identified, warning that the true number could be higher.
Gabbard also pointed to broader border security failures during the Biden administration, noting that millions of unvetted foreign nationals crossed the southern border during that period, raising concerns about individuals with extremist or terrorist ties living undetected in American communities.
The figures cited by Gabbard come from the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), which operates under the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. NCTC Director Joe Kent echoed those concerns during a Thursday hearing before the House Homeland Security Committee. Kent testified that the Afghan national accused in the National Guard ambush did not undergo the rigorous vetting normally required for entry into the United States.
.@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 individual was vetted to serve as a soldier in Afghanistan, and that vetting standard was used by the Biden administration as a pretext to bring him here,” Kent said. “Had we followed standard operating procedures for special immigrant visas, that individual — and others like him — would not have been admitted. That responsibility lies with Joe Biden.”
During the same hearing, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D–Miss.) drew criticism after referring to the ambush as an “unfortunate accident,” a remark that sparked backlash given the deliberate nature of the attack.
Gabbard also revealed that the NCTC, working alongside the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security, has begun re-vetting every Afghan national brought into the U.S. after the withdrawal. “We know that al-Qaeda and ISIS continue to actively plot attacks against our homeland,” she said.
That effort has drawn objections from resettlement advocates. Shawn VanDiver, president of the group #AfghanEvac, expressed concern that the re-vetting process could be misused. “What I’m worried about is that they’ll use this as an excuse to reassess people in a way that goes beyond what the law requires,” VanDiver said, insisting that those admitted were already vetted.
As scrutiny grows, the fallout from the Biden administration’s Afghanistan withdrawal continues to reverberate across national security agencies and Capitol Hill.
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