The top U.S. counterterrorism official testified on Thursday that the federal government is aware of 18,000 people on the FBI terrorism watch list who were brought into the country during the Biden administration’s botched 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan .

National Counterterrorism Center Director Joseph Kent told lawmakers on the House Homeland Security Committee that the center recently arrived at an “alarming” conclusion about who the United States let into the country four years ago.

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“NCTC has identified around 18,000 known and suspected terr

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