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THE LIARS – AT 8:16 A.M. ET:  They are the people in the dying Obama administration who tell us they can properly vet the thousands of Syrian refugees that Obama wants to import into the United States, to be certain that they're not dangerous.

That is an outright lie.  First of all, we don't know how many are actual refugees, and how many are infiltrators.  It's been pointed out that all previous refugee crises have one thing in common – the refugees are predominantly women and children.  In this crisis, despite a few well-edited photos that are circulated, the great majority are fighting-aged men.  Why?  Why has no one tried to find out?

Then we come to the vetting claim.  Andrew Malcolm, at IBD, discusses it this morning:

During a news conference in Turkey, Obama claimed to have "rigorous (refugee) screening and security checks" in place.

His aide, Ben Rhodes -- the fellow who helped perpetrate the video hoax in the days after the deadly Benghazi incident -- assured Sunday morning TV audiences, "We have very robust vetting procedures" for refugees. Can you say ObamaCare?

Here's the problem with those assertions: They're not true.

In early October senior immigration officials testified before Congress they had no databases from failed states such as Syria and Libya to use for vetting would-be immigrants.

"Refugees" thus would be admitted on blind faith. That's not something most Americans seem prepared to allow now, even before the Paris attacks and thousands of refugees swarmed Europe in recent months.

As IBD reported last month, "Senior FBI officials recently testified that they have no idea who these people are, and they can't find out what type of backgrounds they have — criminal, terrorist or otherwise — because there are no vetting opportunities in those war-torn countries."

And don't forget, both Boston Marathon bombers were asylum-seekers from Chechnya, brothers so dangerous that Russia warned American authorities about them, to no avail. Three Americans died and more than 260 were injured by the two explosions in 2013.

The president and his diplomatic go-fer John Kerry announced the Syrian refugee admission policy earlier this fall in typical Obama style, peremptory and free of advance warning to legislators or explanation to voters.

COMMENT:  Obama, a profoundly left-wing man, and very pro-Muslim, will not relent.  He intends to make his last year in office a long sneer at the country for which he has obvious contempt – his own.

November 17,  2015