Divers recover items at San Bernardino lake

US officials have said their investigation has yet to turn up evidence that foreign militants directed Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, or Tashfeen Malik, 29, when the married couple stormed a holiday gathering of Farook’s co-workers at a regional center in San Bernardino on December 2 and opened fire with assault rifles. On Thursday, the FBI admitted investigators were looking for “anything that had to do” with the massacre.

David Bowdich, the assistant director of the FBI’s Los Angeles office, would not comment on what the divers were looking for.

After days of searching a near by public lake in San Bernardino, CA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has said it found some “items” and has concluded the search.

“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. While immigration officials do not routinely review social media as part of their background checks, the New York Times reported on the weekend that there is a debate inside the department of homeland security over whether it is even appropriate to do so.

Tashfeen Malik, who carried out the San Bernardino massacre along with her husband, reportedly passed three background checks although she openly talked of violent jihad on social media.

Divers finished fishing for clues about the San Bernardino terrorist attack after pulling unknown items from a lake Saturday.

Sen. Richard Burr, R-North Carolina, chairman of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said in an interview Sunday, Dec. 13, on CBS’ “Face the Nation”, that investigators are looking at footage from city cameras as well as those outside convenience stores.

Obama said that while there was no evidence the shooters were directed by a terror network overseas or part of a broader plot, “the two of them had gone down the dark path of radicalisation”.

There is concern that immigration authorities did not pick up on Malik’s radical views before admitting her to the U.S. Immigration officials don’t usually review social media posts as part of background checks and most of the process is spent on vetting against marriage fraud.

A US official told CNN shortly after the San Bernardino attack that the USA only recently began reviewing the social media activity of visa applicants from certain countries. We have a number of tools from which we draw this information.

Speaking in Paris on Saturday, Secretary of State John Kerry fielded a question about the visa-vetting process and whether the policies regarding it needed to be updated.

Online communications recovered so far indicate the two killers became radicalized long before carrying out the attack.