The Afghan Shooter and the Limits of Vetting

FBI probes possible ties of National Guard shooter to Tablighi Jamaat, a

FBI investigates Tablighi Jamaat connections in Washington DC attack as Afghan veteran's radicalization path emerges through disturbing family phone calls.

The Afghan Shooter and the Limits of Vetting

Rahmanullah Lakanwal, looking at peace somewhere, sometime. (instagram)Many decades ago in South Vietnam, I was running a spy targeted on communist troops headquartered in the jungles about 15 miles away from my office in Da Nang, a bustling former French colonial port on the central coast. When I arrived on scene in late 1969 we didn’t know much about Mr. Dao, a man twice my age, other than he’d worked for the French before us and was a fervent…