Federal Bureau of Investigation divers recover items from lake near site of massacre

But the search turned up nothing related to the investigation, a law enforcement source said.

A Federal Bureau of Investigation diver searches the water at Seccombe Lake Park after a shooting earlier this month in San Bern …

American law enforcement officials said they recently discovered those old and previously unreported postings as they pieced together the lives of Ms. Malik and her husband, Syed Rizwan Farook, trying to understand how they pulled off the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil since September 11, 2001. The source declined to describe the items found.

Tashfeen Malik, who with her husband carried out the massacre in San Bernardino, Calif., passed three background checks by American immigration officials as she moved to the United States from Pakistan.

On Sunday, police in the city of Hawthorne, 130 miles (210 km) west of Coachella Valley in Los Angeles County, were investigating separate acts of vandalism at mosques, apparently overnight, that authorities have classified as hate crimes.

Investigators have said the killers tried to cover their tracks by destroying emails, cellphones and other items at their home in Redlands. On Thursday, the FBI admitted investigators were looking for “anything that had to do” with the massacre.

Meanwhile, the San Bernardino Division of Environmental Health Services will reopen Monday for the first time since the massacre at the Inland Regional Center, the department said Friday.

More important, he added, is learning about who influenced or supported the couple.

Authorities are continuing to question Farook’s longtime friend and relative-through-marriage, Enrique Marquez, who bought the assault rifles used in the shooting.

David McNew/Getty Images Divers in a lake near the San Bernardino shooting.

Marquez, who checked himself into a mental hospital after the attack, told investigators that he and Farook were plotting an attack in 2012.

The FBI said Farook had ties to a group of jihadists arrested in California three years ago for attempting to travel to Afghanistan to join al Qaeda.

FBI Director James Comey said authorities found online discussions about jihad between Farook and Malik from late 2013, before they began dating.

Malik moved from Pakistan to the United States on a fiance visa. “No one knows her more than me”. Then, her application went through to the State Department, which reviewed her fingerprints against other databases and finally, she applied for a green card and was thoroughly reviewed once more.

It is not clear if the background checks cited by the newspaper are the same checks that the State Department officials discussed with CNN.

“Do you seek to engage in terrorist activities while in the US?” “She knew what was right and what was wrong”, Fehda Malik said. Social media contain is seldom contained.

That incredibly effective multi-layered vetting Obama was talking up while promising that the huge numbers of Syrian Muslim migrants he wants to bring to this country will be thoroughly vetted…