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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 5179397" data-attributes="member: 12952">[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://americanmilitarynews.com/2022/02/dozens-of-potentially-dangerous-afghans-brought-to-us-most-cant-be-found-pentagon-audit/[/URL]In an audit <a href="https://media.defense.gov/2022/Feb/17/2002940841/-1/-1/1/DODIG-222-065.PDF" target="_blank">report</a> published Tuesday and publicly released Thursday, the Department of Defense’s Inspector General said the DoD’s National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC) had identified “50 Afghan personnel in the United States with information in DoD records that would indicate potentially significant security concerns.”Adding to the security concern, most of those Afghan individuals who have been flagged for security concerns can no longer be found after being brought to the U.S. The inspector general said NGIC tried to track down 31 such Afghan individuals who were linked to derogatory security information. “Of those 31, only 3 could be located.”“Not being able to locate Afghan evacuees with derogatory information quickly and accurately could pose a security risk to the United States,” the report states. “In addition, the U.S. Government could mistakenly grant ineligible Afghan evacuees with derogatory information from the DoD [Automated Biometric Identification System] database [special immigrant visa] or parolee status.”The lapse in vetting may be due in part to NGIC personnel not having had access to all DoD data prior to Afghan evacuees arriving in the U.S.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 5179397, member: 12952"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://americanmilitarynews.com/2022/02/dozens-of-potentially-dangerous-afghans-brought-to-us-most-cant-be-found-pentagon-audit/[/URL] In an audit [URL='https://media.defense.gov/2022/Feb/17/2002940841/-1/-1/1/DODIG-222-065.PDF']report[/URL] published Tuesday and publicly released Thursday, the Department of Defense’s Inspector General said the DoD’s National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC) had identified “50 Afghan personnel in the United States with information in DoD records that would indicate potentially significant security concerns.” Adding to the security concern, most of those Afghan individuals who have been flagged for security concerns can no longer be found after being brought to the U.S. The inspector general said NGIC tried to track down 31 such Afghan individuals who were linked to derogatory security information. “Of those 31, only 3 could be located.” “Not being able to locate Afghan evacuees with derogatory information quickly and accurately could pose a security risk to the United States,” the report states. “In addition, the U.S. Government could mistakenly grant ineligible Afghan evacuees with derogatory information from the DoD [Automated Biometric Identification System] database [special immigrant visa] or parolee status.” The lapse in vetting may be due in part to NGIC personnel not having had access to all DoD data prior to Afghan evacuees arriving in the U.S. [/QUOTE]

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