(Hill) Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and fellow committee members Sens. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) asked acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf for further details on the process by which a Saudi national who killed three people at a Pensacola, Fla., naval base was able to obtain a visa to participate in military training in the U.S.
“On December 6, 2019, Ahmed Mohammed al-Shamrani, a Saudi Arabian national here in the United States on an A-2 visa for military training, killed three people and injured eight at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida. On January 13, 2020, Attorney General William Barr described this attack as ‘an act of terrorism’ and referred to evidence that ‘the shooter was motivated by jihadist ideology,’” the three wrote in a letter Wednesday.
