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His investigation into Tablighi Jamaat and potential radicals within that organization was shut down. not by his superiorhis superior recognized his importancebut by people way up the chain. If that investigation had continued. it appears pretty clear there would have been people alive today in San Bernardino who are dead. "Numbers obtained from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection show 60.010 Syrian visa holders have entered the U.S. since 2012. including 16.245 this year through August. Additional numbers provided by a Congressional source showed another 42.303 Syrians were granted citizenship or green cards during the same period. "It is highly unlikely that the 102.313 Syrians who were admitted over the past three years were effectively vetted. said spokesman Ira Mehlman. of the Federation for American Immigration Reform. Even in countries where we have a strong diplomatic presence. the sheer volume of background checks being carried out precludes the kind of thorough vetting that is necessary. " We know also. from Mark Krikorians research. that it costs 12 times more to bring Syrian refugees here to the United States than it does to keep them alive and keep them functioning somewhere in the area of Syria. So it is pretty arrogant for the United States to claim we need to bring these Syrian refugees to the United States even though we could. actually. help and keep alive and keep functioning 11 more people in addition to the ones we brought here if we were to just help them where they are. We also had this report yesterday: "Chattanooga shooting a terror attack. FBI Director James Comey says." "The semantic dance of whether or not to call the July mass shooting in Chattanooga a terrorist attack appears to be winding down. "FBI Director James Comey twice called the deadly Chattanooga shooting that killed four Marines and one sailor a terror attack during a press conference with NYPD commissioner Bill Bratton on Wednesday.