Consular officials liken visa critics to neo-Nazis
Son, what we have here is a failure to communicate.
How many more al-Qaeda terrorists do we need to admit to the country before the cookie pushers admit that maybe our visa policy is too lenient?
Mr. Burton, Indiana Republican and chairman of the Government Reform Committee, “slanders [ousted Consular Affairs chief] Mary Ryan, the Bureau of Consular Affairs, Civil and Foreign Service employees of the State in Washington and overseas through a litany of half-truths and outright canards that would have done [McCarthy lawyer] Roy Cohn proud,” Mr. Keil wrote.
I’d like to see Mr. Keil make that slander charge stand up in court.
Mr. Boucher, while critical of the e-mails, said there was within the consular service “a level of frustration and anger at press stories” accusing staff of lax policies in granting visas.
I’d be mad, too, if I wasn’t doing my job and got caught at it.
The senior State Department official said that before the use of new technologies, staff might have gotten away with sharing such sentiments. “People who spouted off on the phone now do it on e-mail,” the official said.
And I guess that made it right in those days. Right?
The big heads at the Department of State need some deflation, methinks.