Friend of San Bernardino Shooter Facing Terror Charges

Authorities investigating the San Bernadino, California, terror attack have filed federal charges against Enrique Marquez Jr., a childhood friend of shooter Syed Farook.
 
Plot after plot developed between the two friends, with one attack aimed at a southern California community college and another against drivers stuck in rush hour traffic.
 
The plots date back to 2011, but the two men never followed through on them. Then Farook and his ISIS-supporting bride launched their own strike in San Bernardino, using Marquez' weapons.
 
"He has provided them a lot of details about the weapons, about possibly other attacks planned," former FBI Special Agent Brad Garrett said.
 
Now, two weeks after the San Bernadino attack, Marquez is behind bars facing serious terror charges.
 
Authorities say the 24-year-old bought the two assault rifles used in the shooting. Marquez himself called 911 after the attack, identifying Farook as the killer and admitting the guns had been his own.
 
It's this kind of attack that has Americans scared.  A new Washington-Post ABC News poll shows only two out of 10 people think lone wolf attacks can be stopped.
 
Nevertheless, President Barack Obama is trying to reassure Americans that there's no evidence of an imminent attack in the U.S. over the holidays.
 
"We cannot give into fear or change how we live our lives because that's what terrorists want," he said.
 
Speaking at the counter terrorism center in McLean, Virginia, the president said changes are being made to strengthen the security of the visa waiver program.
 
Several lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee questioned immigration officials, Thursday, about their inability to keep track of visa violators.
 
"We can either tell the American people that our processes and our systems are flawed,  we have missed information that is otherwise available and let them deal with that," Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., said. 
 
"Or, we can just tell our fellow citizens, we missed nothing," he continued. "We did everything we were supposed to do and there's 14 funerals in California so you just need to get used to the risk. Neither one of those is acceptable, I would argue."
 
Rep. Scott DesJarlais, R-Tenn., agreed.
 
""If we're bringing in 10,000 refugees and we miss just 1 percent, that's 100 terrorists.  It didn't take that many in Paris and it certainly didn't take that many in San Bernardino," he said.
 
Meanwhile, lawmakers want answers about why the Department of Homeland Security granted a visa to one of the San Bernardino attackers, even though she had revealed her desire for jihad on social media.