Top Republicans probe Biden admin on Afghan nationals' alleged Election Day terrorist plot

FIRST ON FOX: Senate Committee connected Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Chairman Rand Paul, R-Ky., led respective different Republicans successful demanding answers from nan Biden-Harris management astir 2 Afghan nationals arrested successful Oklahoma for allegedly plotting an Election Day violent attack. 

Earlier this month, an Afghan nationalist surviving successful Oklahoma was arrested and charged pinch plotting a violent onslaught connected Election Day pinch an underage co-conspirator connected behalf of ISIS. 

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Sen. Rand Paul, right, led a missive sent to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, left, requesting important accusation astir nan Afghan nationals charged pinch plotting a violent attack. (Reuters)

Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, came into nan state connected Sept. 9, 2021 connected a typical migrant visa aft nan disastrous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan nether President Biden.

"After entering nan United States, Tawhedi promoted ISIS propaganda, sent costs to known charities linked to ISIS support networks, and liquidated each assets to acquisition weapons; pinch nan remaining costs intended for nan ISIS Treasury," Paul wrote Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas successful a missive Friday afternoon, which was joined by Sens. Rick Scott, R-Fla., James Lankford, R-Okla., and Roger Marshall, R-Kan. 

"Tawhedi was moving pinch a juvenile co-conspirator pinch ineligible imperishable resident position who had entered nan United States connected March 27, 2018, utilizing a SIV. According to reports, nan 2 Afghan nationals planned to transportation retired a violent, equipped onslaught connected Election Day."

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"This alarming incident adds to a increasing database of akin information breaches, raising superior concerns astir nan Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) expertise to efficaciously protect our homeland," nan senators said.

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Afghan group climb atop a level arsenic they hold astatine nan Kabul airdrome successful Kabul connected Aug. 16, 2021 aft a stunningly swift extremity to Afghanistan's 20-year war, arsenic thousands of group mobbed nan city's airdrome trying to fly nan group's feared hard-line marque of Islamist rule. (Getty Images)

"The screening and vetting processes nether nan Biden-Harris management are intelligibly failing, allowing criminals and individuals pinch violent links to utilization vulnerabilities successful nan system. Given nan important threat to American lives, it is imperative that we person elaborate accusation to afloat understand nan scope of these issues," nan missive continued. 

The Republicans prompted Mayorkas and DHS to supply each records and information connected Tawhedi and his co-conspirator's migration statuses and criminal history, arsenic good arsenic communications betwixt national departments and agencies regarding them and nan accusation successful nan individuals' Terrorist Screening Data Set.

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A newsman raises his manus to inquire a mobility of Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, during a property briefing connected Monday, July 15, 2024 astatine nan White House successful Washington. (AP)

The DHS did not instantly supply remark to Fox News Digital. 

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Tawhedi was charged little than a period earlier Election Day, which will return spot connected Nov. 5. 

The missive from apical Republicans connected nan Homeland Security committee comes pinch little than 2 weeks until nan statesmanlike contest.