{"id":26357,"date":"2025-12-08T06:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T06:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/?p=26357"},"modified":"2025-12-08T06:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T06:16:10","slug":"trump-intel-chief-reveals-shocking-detail-about-alleged-guard-shooter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/?p=26357","title":{"rendered":"Trump Intel Chief Reveals Shocking Detail About Alleged Guard Shooter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Trump administration issued a warning Friday after a senior intelligence official disclosed that the Afghan suspect accused in the fatal Washington, D.C., shooting had not been vetted before entering the United States.<\/p>\n

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Joe Kent, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, said Rahmanullah Lakanwal was \u201cnot vetted\u201d prior to his 2021 entry into the country. Kent attributed the lapse to policies in place during the Biden administration.<\/p>\n

According to Kent, more than 2 million people arrived in the U.S. from \u201cMuslim-majority nations and regions\u201d during that period, many with \u201cminimal scrutiny amid record border crossings.\u201d He said the total included approximately 85,000 Afghans who were \u201crapidly admitted\u201d without the screening procedures used in previous years.<\/p>\n

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Kent explained that the suspected terrorist \u201cwas only vetted to serve as a soldier to fight against the Taliban, AQ, and ISIS in Afghanistan.\u201d He said the approval for battlefield work \u201cwas not vetting for life in America.\u201d<\/p>\n

He noted that Lakanwal was never assessed for life in terms of being a neighbor, a resident, or a prospective citizen.<\/p>\n

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A senior U.S. official corroborated Kent\u2019s account, describing the wartime vetting process used during the 2021 Afghanistan evacuation as \u201ca low standard\u201d that had not previously been relied upon for admission into the United States. The official noted that, prior to the Biden administration, applicants for Special Immigrant Visas typically waited 18 months or longer because they were required to undergo in-person interviews in a third country.<\/p>\n

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Current and former national security officials have also linked the lapse to the Biden administration\u2019s handling of the Afghanistan withdrawal. According to\u00a0reporting from the New York Post, former Trump-era officials at the Department of Homeland Security and the CIA said the chaotic evacuation created an opening that allowed Lakanwal to enter the U.S.<\/p>\n

CIA Director John Ratcliffe said the Biden team justified bringing him in \u201cdue to his prior work\u201d with U.S. forces and his agency in Kandahar.<\/p>\n

Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin added that Lakanwal entered as part of Biden\u2019s parole program. She noted further that he came in with tens of thousands of other Afghans and that \u201cthis monster would not have been removed because of his parole.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lakanwal lived in Washington state after entering the country through Operation Allies Welcome, settling in Bellingham with his wife and five children. He later applied for asylum and was granted approval in April 2025.<\/p>\n

According to investigators, Lakanwal ambushed two members of the National Guard on Thanksgiving Eve in Washington, D.C. Army National Guard Spc. Sarah Beckstrom was struck first and died the following day. Andrew Wolfe, a member of the Air National Guard remains in critical condition. Both were members of the West Virginia National Guard.<\/p>\n

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Officials said the suspect initially fired a revolver and then used Beckstrom\u2019s rifle before being subdued by another Guardsman who intervened while he attempted to reload.<\/p>\n

Security analysts have said the incident highlights broader concerns raised about the vetting process used during the 2021 evacuation from Afghanistan. One veteran involved in the evacuation effort told reporters that \u201czero vetting\u201d occurred for some of the tens of thousands of Afghans airlifted during the withdrawal, adding, \u201cWe have no idea who they are.\u201d<\/p>\n

U.S. Attorney General for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro identified the two National Guard members during a Thursday press conference, confirming at the time that both had undergone surgery and remained in critical condition. Pirro said Beckstrom and Wolfe had been sworn into service less than 24 hours before the shooting occurred,\u00a0Newsweek reported.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are praying that they survive and that the highest charge will not have to be murder in the first degree, but make no mistake, if they do not, that will certainly be the charge \u2013 murder in the first degree,\u201d she said at the time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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