Honestly, if there’s one agency in the federal government we should expect to know how to carry out a background check, and how to uncover if a particular person is potentially dangerous or harbors radical beliefs, that agency would be the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA.) I mean, it’s their job, right?
One guy slipped through the cracks – and he happens to be Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, who was recently arrested for plotting an Election Day terror attack right here, in the United States. And he worked for the CIA:
An Afghan man arrested on charges of planning a terrorist attack on Election Day worked as a security guard in Afghanistan for the CIA, two sources with knowledge of the matter told NBC News.
Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, was arrested on Monday in Oklahoma and accused of plotting to kill Americans with an assault rifle on behalf of ISIS. Court documents said he had contributed to…