Let's not jump to any conclusions here, as Obama would say. (But let's suspend the 2nd amendment anyway.)
"We don't know if this was workplace rage or something larger or a combination of both," Attorney General Loretta Lynch said in Washington, echoing President Barack Obama. "We don't know the motivation."
We just don't know. Could be one of those party arguments that you respond to with heavy firepower within 20 minutes. Or it might just be... terrorism.
U.S. investigators are evaluating evidence that Malik, a Pakistani native who had been living in Saudi Arabia when she married Farook, had pledged allegiance to Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, two U.S. officials told Reuters. They said the finding, if confirmed, could be a "game changer" in the investigation.
CNN reported on Friday that one U.S. official said Malik had pledged allegiance to al-Baghdadi in a posting on Facebook made on Wednesday, the day of the attack, under an account that used a different name.
So obviously it's workplace violence.
Malik had passed a national security check. You know part of the multi-layered vetting process that's supposed to make it impossible for ISIS supporters to come here and kill us.
Farook applied for a permanent-resident green card for Malik within the legal 90-day limit, a federal official said. In July 2015, she was granted a conditional green card, for which, as a matter of procedure, the couple had to prove that their marriage was legitimate. Additionally, Malik had to pass criminal and national-security background checks.
I'm sure none of the tens of thousands of Syrian Muslim migrants coming to America will be able to do what Malik did. And if they do, well it'll just be more workplace violence. Coming to a workplace near you.
