National Review Columnist gets Hassled

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With intentions to further undermine our border security by expanding Visa
Express, State is the last department that should be entrusted with the
authority to issue visas. This week, the House of Representatives is in the
final stages of a bill to create the new Department of Homeland Security,
yet State has successfully maintained visa-issuance powers under the bills
that passed out of several committees last week.

Secretary of State Colin Powell has made retention of visa authority his top
priority, and he has been burning up the phone lines to pressure lawmakers.
Let's hope he doesn't succeed.

- Joel Mowbray is an NRO contributor and a Townhall.com columnist

http://www.nationalreview.com/mowbray/mowbray071602.asp

Maybe it's because I've just been reading about these NRO sleazebags in
Brocks book, but it seems to me the real story in all this is a dangerous
dept of Homeland Security wants power over the visa process.  Why no mention
in Mowbray's article about Intelligence over-ruling visa rejections as has
been stated by some ex-officials who have joined with relatives of WTC
victims to question events leading up to 9/11?  Maybe the detention story is
just another turn in the right-wing spin machine.