Blame the bureaucrats, or blame Obama?

Terrorist Tashfeen Malik used the K-1 visa to join husband Syed Farook, prior to their killing spree in San Bernardino.

House Judiciary Committee chair Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) said Friday that “it is clear that immigration officials did not thoroughly vet [Malik’s] application.”

Was it a mere bureaucratic mistake, or was it the predictable result of Obama’s amnesty policy? That is the focus of an article in Breitbart by Joel B. Pollak.

h/t David Adams

Who bought their ammunition?

Jim Geraghty writes at National Review,

Here’s the jihadist couple reentering the United States. If 24 had portrayed a pair looking like that entering the country to launch a terror attack, CAIR would have denounced their appearance as stereotyping.

Geraghty also makes the point that Mr. Obama might now be wishing he would not have said last night, “So far, we have no evidence that the killers were directed by a terrorist organization overseas, or that they were part of a broader conspiracy here at home.” Fox News reports,

The investigation into Wednesday's terror attack in San Bernardino, Calif. has guided federal investigators in the direction of terror suspects in the Middle East who may have made contact with gunmen Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik, Fox News has learned.

A high-level intelligence source told Fox News late Sunday that investigators are pursuing several lines of inquiry that ties Farook and Malik to the Middle East, including the possibility that the two's deadly rampage had been financed from overseas.

"We felt from early on these two couldn't have done this alone," the source said of the shooting in which the husband and wife killed 14 people at a county office building and injured 21 others. The source also said that the amount of evidence pointing in the direction of the Middle East had forced the Obama administration to "do an about-face" about the nature of Wednesday's attack over the previous 24 hours.

The latest developments in the investigation are likely to force authorities to take a closer look at Malik, a Pakistani citizen who spent several years in Saudi Arabia. Farook, a U.S. citizen, traveled to Saudi Arabia to meet Malik in September 2013 after the two had forged a relationship online, then traveled there again in July 2014 to bring her back to the United States on a K-1 visa, known as a "fiancee visa."

Over the weekend, Malik's family members opened up to various media outlets about her increasing religious fervor during the later years of her life.

We start to learn about the killers in San Bernardino

Now we have pictures of the Islamic murderers in San Bernardino.

Syed Farook, whose beard was said to have grown considerably fuller since this drivers license photo was taken.

Tashfeen Malik
The Daily Mail reports,

A Facebook official said Malik praised Islamic State in a post at 11am Wednesday, around the time the couple stormed the Inland Regional Center where staff were enjoying a holiday party and opened fire. The profile was quickly removed from public view and its contents reported to law enforcement.

The lifeless body of gunman Syed Farook, with his hands cuffed behind his back, is seen lying face down on the ground next to a large pool of blood in the wake of Wednesday evening's gun battle with police.

Syed Farook's business card identified him as an environmental health specialist for the San Bernardino County Department of Public Health

Malik was always completely covered by a niqab.

Farook and Malik had illegally modified their two AR-style rifles making it easier to kill a large number of people, officials revealed today.

Meredith Davis, with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, said that while the weapons were purchased legally, they had undergone a number of illegal adjustments afterwards.

One of the weapons had been modified to allow it to fire on fully-automatic mode, while the other was fitted with a large magazine and had the 'bullet button' removed to allow for quicker reloading.

In total, Farook and Malik were carrying four guns - the two rifles and two semi-automatic handguns - and were in possession of 12 pipe bombs and around 4,500 rounds of ammunition.


An additional 1,400 rifle rounds were found inside the bullet-riddled vehicle the pair used to evade police on Wednesday. Police also recovered more than 2,000 handgun bullets.

Malik's family in Saudi Arabia were wealthy.