AG Lynch Assures Screening Process for Syrian Refugees 'Robust'

Even though the FBI says there are still gaps.

Never fear, the federal government is here and with personal assurance from Attorney General Loretta Lynch that Syrian refugees will be vetted through a "robust" process before entering the country.

This is in direct contrast to what FBI Director James Corney said last month when he warned about ever-present gaps in the screening process.

But according to comments made Tuesday, Lynch is confident they can weed out trouble:

Under the Department of Justice, all of our agencies will make ever effort to vet every refugee coming into this country — from the databases, to the interviews that those individuals are subject to, to the biometric screening.

Lynch is convinced that this process will keep the United States freer of terrorists than what we are seeing in Europe. But added, "Certainly there are challenges to that process because of the situation in Syria."

You don't say?

Yet, during a House committee hearing, Director Corney saw it another way:

 We can only query against that which we have collected. And so if someone has never made a ripple in the pond in Syria in a way that would get their identity or their interest reflected in our database, we can query our database until the cows come home, but there will be nothing show up because we have no record of them.

I feel better.

The conversation on refugees is ramping up because of the ISIS attacks in Paris on the heels of the mass influx of refugees into Europe. President Obama is pining for 10,000 Syrian refugees to come across U.S. borders, a move at least 26 governors are trying to keep out of their states.

And as for the United Nations, it is applying pressure on Europe to not "backtrack" on its commitment to welcoming the refugees with open arms despite the carnage strewn in the streets of Paris.

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