National Guard Assassin Not Only Tied to CIA, but USAID as Well – HotAir

I am not so cynical as to believe that either the CIA or USAID figures wanted to import Islamist terrorists into the United States, but it doesn’t say anything good about either agency that they don’t have a track record of ferreting them out, or even exercising good judgment. 

Of course, it’s hardly surprising that the CIA works with some very sketchy people. It’s got to be part of the job description when your job is to track what sketchy people do. The same could be said of some special forces types working in primitive cultures. They have to ally with one group of bad guys to fight the others. I’ve no personal experience with this sort of thing, but I have talked with veterans who were pretty disgusted with some of the Afghans they worked with (and quite impressed with others, to be fair). 

🚨 BREAKING: The Soros-linked NGO “World Relief” FUNDED the settlement of National Guard shooter Rahmanullah Lakanwal in Washington State, from Afghanistan.

World Relief has received US TAXPAYER DOLLARS through USAID.

This same NGO has worked with pro-migration and open borders… pic.twitter.com/CaR6MdAxlD

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 27, 2025

Rahmanullah Lakanwal appears to fit into the former category. He worked with the CIA and was part of an elite group who worked with the US and Afghan governments to root out and eliminate the bad guys, but it’s pretty obvious he was just one of our bad guys. 

🇺🇸 #US: A collection of witness-recorded footage from Wednesday’s attack on National Guard members near the White House in Washington, D.C. showing the Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal drawing a handgun, followed by a National Guard member returning fire.

As a complementary… pic.twitter.com/YQfqm4jppY

— POPULAR FRONT (@PopularFront_) November 28, 2025

As a complementary detail, The New York Times, as well as the non-profit Afghan Evac (@afghanevac), which works with Afghan SIV applicants stated that Lakanwal previously served in NDS-03, an elite Afghan “counterterrorism” unit that operated with CIA oversight and direct US intelligence and military support.

No doubt it makes sense to temporarily ally with such people in their home countries, just as the police work with criminal informants in order to go after bigger and nastier targets. But that doesn’t mean that they are our allies. Just as we are using them, they are using us for their own purposes. It’s like making a temporary alliance with Stalin in order to take out the Nazis. 

Stalin and the communists were never on our side, and they turned their energies against us after that war. Same thing here, obviously.  Rahmanullah Lakanwal was never our ally, obviously. 

My hearts breaks for this sporty cricket man who simply wanted a better life. 💔

— 🫃🏼💉🇺🇦🥥Hollaria Briden, Esq. (@HollyBriden) November 28, 2025

Unfortunately, we have been governed by naive or merely stupid people who have romanticized the third world and Islamic culture. Naifs in the refugee resettlement community open their hearts and their homes to people who mean us harm. USAID spread the money around, and decent people wanting to do good opened their homes to people who are obsessed with undermining our country. 

This is Stanley & Valerie Creighton from Bellingham Washington.

They let National Guard shooter Rahmanullah Lakanwal live with them at their $2.7 million home.

The Creightons hate President Trump & hate Republicans. https://t.co/Ecl3pjUHji pic.twitter.com/3DFaObZ8mf

— JLR© (@JLRINVESTIGATES) November 27, 2025

A lot of people are talking about harassing these good-hearted people, but that is misguided. Their crime is having soft hearts that make their thinking processes soft as well. They helped enable an awful thing, but not for awful reasons. That doesn’t excuse anything, in the sense that anybody with common sense could predict that opening the doors to mass migration from Afghanistan would be disastrous, but liberals believe that common sense is colonialist thinking. 

Reasoning with such people is like arguing with toddlers. 

One thing that is confusing is that USAID was basically a CIA front, and while I have no reason to believe that many CIA agents want to get American citizens killed, it sure looks like the people involved here were strongly dedicated to preventing it, either. At least not to the extent that they should be. 

Allowing THIS 👇 is what led to the Afghan named Rahmanullah Lakanwal yelling “Allahu Akbar!” then shooting 2 National Guard members at the White House

An entire auditorium of Muslims shout “Death to America!”

“Until we turn the White House into a Hussainiya (Shiite Islamic… pic.twitter.com/xhKvI1QFb2

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) November 28, 2025

I suspect that this attitude comes down from the top. The Biden administration clearly had a bias to evacuating anybody they could, since we have learned that they approved “refugees” with red flags for evacuation, and once they were evacuated, they were let out into the wild. 

/2 We obtained these documents through litigation against the Department of Justice after it stonewalled our investigation into the Biden-Harris Administration’s decision-making over the disastrous withdrawal.

The documents we received reveal utter chaos and incompetence… pic.twitter.com/lZVFpoKdu4

— America First Legal (@America1stLegal) August 26, 2024

Again, as cynical as I am, I doubt that anybody thought, “Let’s let in terrorists so they can destroy America.” Few people think exactly like that, and I doubt that even the socialists and communists who want to bring down our system think quite like that. 

At least I hope not. I suspect that they believe their own propaganda about how only the West is evil, and that diversity is our strength, or whatever rot they claim. 

But it’s the rot that is dangerous. Diversity is not our strength, and the world is much harsher and more dangerous than they believe. 

None of this means that all Afghans are bad people or ticking time bombs. Rather, statistically speaking, the more you let in and the less you insist on integration of people from horrific cultures, the likelier horrors will happen. If you don’t want those horrors, the obvious solution is to minimize the likelihood. 

In other words, extreme vetting. Afghan translators are the most likely to deserve our help, I would expect. random Afghan civilians, less so, and mercenaries, the least of all. The presumption should be to say no without a compelling counterargument. 

This attack was almost the definition of predictable. Not this individual, of course, although to me, he looks very high risk; that is easy to say in hindsight. But that some Afghan refugees would turn out to be bad apples is as predictable as finding a bunch of gang members who were smuggled in by cartels in a mass migration wave from Latin America. 

The point? We should lean toward protecting Americans rather than being kind-hearted but at higher risk. That is obvious. 

Liberals lean the other way, willing to sacrifice a few Americans (or many) to be “kind.” In criminal justice, it is the same. 

This should be obvious. But not, it seems, to our warm and fuzzy friends on the left who characterize an illegal alien with a long history of crimes that harm others as a “victim.”

One man is an American who lost tens of thousands of dollars after his identity got stolen.

The other man—who stole the first man’s identity—is an illegal immigrant with multiple arrests, several DUIs, and three deportations.

The New York Times thinks they’re both victims. pic.twitter.com/ifZrQ2MTmv

— Robert Sterling (@RobertMSterling) November 24, 2025

Or think of a terrorist as just a sporty guy who loves cricket. When your view of the world is that twisted and divorced from common sense, you are just as big a danger as the really bad guy.