If not for a feisty online news organization, Potomac Local News, we wouldn’t know that earlier this month two Jordanian nationals attempted to bring a truck onto Quantico Marine Base:

On May 10, PLN reported: “Two people inside a box truck tried to force their way onto Quantico Marine Corps Base.

After being pressed by Potomac Local News, base officials today said that in the early morning hours of Friday, May 3, 2024, the two men drove a truck up to the base’s main gate on Fuller Road, just outside Dumfries, told guards that they were contractors for Amazon and were making a delivery to Quantico Town’s post office. The town is located inside the military base.

The men did not provide any approved access credentials, and police determined the vehicle had no affiliation with the base, so officers directed the truck to a holding area for standard vetting procedures. “One of the military police officers noticed the driver, ignoring the direct instructions of the officers, continued to move the vehicle past the holding area and attempted to access…Quantico,” said base spokesman Capt. Micheal Curtis.

The military tried to keep the incident secret and didn’t notify personnel on the base until two weeks after it occurred.

The Potomac Local News noted that this attempted incursion was just the latest in a series of incidents at military installations around the country, including one at Little Creek in Norfolk on April 28.

In a follow-up story, The New York Post quoted a military expert who suggested that these may be dry runs for a serious terrorist attack in the works.

According to the Post, Matt Strickland, former infantry combat medic, Blackwater private military contractor and combat incident analyst at the National Ground Intelligence Center, said that “in his experience of convoys under attack and later in combat intelligence analysis, the secrecy surrounding what happened at Quantico is meant to spare the administration embarrassment, not keep the country safe.”

“The secrecy is purposeful because it was illegal immigrants, one of who was on the terror watch list, who breached the gates. 

“And they’re allowing these illegal immigrants to come across the border. There are people coming across the border who hate us and want us dead.”

Alarmingly, Strickland added: “In all my time downrange, every attack that happened, especially with VBEDs [vehicle-borne explosive devices], there was always a dry run, always.”

The Biden administration has confirmed that one of the two men in the truck was an illegal alien on the terrorist watch list. Yet the Department Of Homeland Security denied a Fox News FOIA request for the names of the two men, citing their privacy rights.

Think about it: The Biden administration is keeping American citizens in the dark about an alarming incident at a secure Virginia military base in order to protect the privacy of criminals. 

Sen. Lindsey Graham fired off a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas demanding details.

“Please explain how they came to the United States. Were they here illegally? Are either of them on any terrorist watchlist?" Graham, a Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member, said in a letter to Mayorkas issued Thursday.

"Please provide the committee with the answers to these questions and any other information relevant to their background and intent, including copies of the complete and most current alien files for each individual. This will allow us to make an informed decision about how to address the recurring threat posed to our national security by this kind of incident, which is not isolated."

In an appearance on Fox News Wednesday night, Graham said he had received no response from Mayorkas. The senator noted that these were apparently “two fighting age males, here illegally” yet getting information about them was “like pulling teeth.”

It’s clear that Biden’s open border policies, which have welcomed perhaps 11 million illegal aliens into the country, have also let an unknown number of terrorists slip into the U.S.

The American people have a right to know what happened at Quantico on May 3rd and the identities of these two Jordanian nationals.

The secrecy makes no sense. If they are part of a larger terror cell, the other terrorists already know their names.

In the meanwhile, kudos to Potomac Local News for doing the investigative work that legacy newspapers like The Washington Post once did.