Congresswoman says Biden admin shut down FBI briefing over Afghan man charged with Election Day terror plot

U.S. Rep. Stephanie Bice, R-Okla., said the Biden medication has blocked the FBI from fulfilling her petition for a briefing connected the apprehension of an Afghan man charged with plotting a panic onslaught connected Election Day. 

In a missive dated Friday to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, Bice said the FBI was afloat supportive of her petition until the Justice Department stepped in. 

"When my bureau requested further accusation and a briefing from the Department of Justice connected this matter, my petition was denied by the administration," she wrote. "What does the Biden-Harris Department of Justice person to fell here?

AFGHAN MAN IN OKLAHOMA PLOTTED ELECTION DAY TERROR ATTACK IN US ON BEHALF OF ISIS, JUSTICE DEPT SAYS

Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi was arrested this week for an alleged panic crippled connected behalf of the Islamic State. (Department of Justice)

"As a life-long nonmigratory of Oklahoma City, our assemblage inactive vividly recalls the bitter representation of April 19, 1995," Bice added, referring to the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building successful downtown Oklahoma City that killed 168 people, including 19 children. 

She is asking for a briefing arsenic "expeditiously" arsenic possible. Fox News Digital has reached retired to Bice's bureau and the White House.

Rep. Stephanie Bice, R-Okla., speaks during a quality league successful Washington, D.C. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, an Oklahoma resident, was arrested this week for an alleged panic crippled connected behalf of the Islamic State. He entered the United States a period aft U.S. troops pulled retired of Afghanistan connected a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) humanitarian parole, alternatively than connected a peculiar migrant visa, arsenic the Justice Department initially said. 

The mechanics done which Tawhedi entered the state is particularly delicate due to the fact that the DHS inspector wide raised concerns astir Operation Allies Welcome, the programme done which the bureau paroled Afghan refugees into the country, circumventing the lengthier and much strenuous vetting process of the State Department-run peculiar migrant visa, oregon SIV, program.

DHS OIG FAULTS AFGHAN VETTING, WARNS NATIONAL SECURITY THREATS MAY HAVE ENTERED US

In 2022, the DHS inspector general's bureau released a study that said it recovered officials "did not ever person captious information to decently screen, vet, oregon inspect the evacuees." 

As a result, "DHS whitethorn person admitted oregon paroled individuals into the U.S. who airs a hazard to nationalist information and the information of section communities," the study said. Tawhedi worked for the CIA arsenic a information defender successful Afghanistan. 

Investigators said they judge Tawhedi became radicalized aft arriving successful the U.S. 

While helium entered the U.S. connected humanitarian parole, helium aboriginal applied for an SIV and was approved, a elder Biden medication authoritative told Fox News. 

A photograph of Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi and his children from July (Department of Justice)

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The medication maintains Tawhedi was subjected to aggregate rounds of vetting and that nary reddish flags were raised.

"The unsealed transgression ailment against Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi raises continued concerns astir the aftermath of the Administration’s catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan and inadequate vetting of evacuees," Bice wrote.