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Homeland Security Congressman: ‘We Cannot Vet the Refugees from Syria’

John Bickley

Rep. Pete King (R-NY), a member of the Homeland Security Committee and Chairman of the Sub-Committee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence, said unequivocally Tuesday that we cannot adequately vet the “refugees” from Syria—a perspective shared by top-level members of the intelligence community.

King’s warning came during an interview with a panel on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, in which increasingly combative co-host Mika Brzezinski attempted to tell King that she knew better than him about what the “vetting process” entailed, despite his classified knowledge on the subject and, as co-host Joe Scarborough reluctantly pointed out, the agreement of other top officials.

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