FBI Search of lake ends, nothing related to San Bernardino shootings found

She was first vetted by the Department of Homeland Security, which checked her name against law enforcement and national security databases. After coming to the U.S. and formally marrying Farook here, she applied for her green card and received another round of criminal and security checks.

US immigration officials said they recently discovered that Malik, who with her husband killed 14 people and injured 21 others during the attack in San Bernardino, Calif., was posting about her desire to get involved with violent jihad, according to the newspaper.

This is the vetting process the White house wants America to rely on.

“All applicable security checks were done for that individual, Ms. Malik”, said Edward Ramotowski, the department’s deputy assistant for visa services told another Senate panel.

Authorities say Farook and Malik, who came to the United States on a fiancee visa in July 2014 and married her husband the next month, were not known to law enforcement before the shooting.

“Well, clearly, we now know that these individuals were radicalized way before, probably as early as 2010 for him and 2012 for her”, said Sen. Specifically noting that the process did not detect the radicalization.

Here’s the complete uselessness of all that multi-layered vetting in all its multi-layered glory. If they’re not in the database, then we can’t know anything about them.

“Had the authorities found the posts years ago, they might have kept her out of the US”.

“That presumes, and this investigation continues to be under way, that there were flags which were raised or should have been lifted in the procedure for her entry to America, and I’m not ready to say that and I am not ready to make that statement”, Johnson said. “On a case-by-case basis, consular officers and our interagency partners may examine any publicly available information, such as social media, about the applicant, including for evidence of the bona fides of the relationship”.

The current system used by the Department of Homeland Security, however, does not routinely review social media as part of its background check. In a brief telephone interview, her sister Fehda Malik said that Tashfeen was not an extremist, and she rejected the allegations against her sister. “She had no contact with any militant organisation or person, male or female”.

She said her sister was religious, studied the Quran and prayed five times a day.

Finally, a State Department official told yet another panel the screening process that allowed Malik into the USA, where she paired with Farook to commit a massacre went smoothly and by the book. The family was very anxious and tense, before hanging up the phone, she said.

On social media, Fehda Malik has made provocative comments of her own. If that is confirmed, it would be the most lethal such attack on US soil since the September 11, 2001, hijacked plane attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.