"CIA Director John Ratcliffe confirmed to Fox News Digital that Lakanwal had worked with the U.S. government in Afghanistan, "including [with the] CIA, as a member of a partner force in Kandahar," prior to the U.S. withdrawal from the country.
Following Lakanwal’s links to the CIA being revealed, conspiracy theories spread on social media, particularly as some users pointed to unusual Google Trends activity that appeared to show his name being searched in the D.C. area prior to Wednesday’s shooting."
Posted by Disastrous_Award_789
1 Comment
He did work with a CIA-backed unit, but the Google Trends spike is almost certainly just insiders, journalists, or agencies searching his name before it went public. Not evidence of a conspiracy.
The real concern is how someone with that background slipped into the National Guard with minimal screening.