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Verdery cited adjustments to SEVIS, a notoriously bug-ridden database of international students launched in 2003, as an example of the department??s improvement. Last year 300 visa-holders were detained at airports as a result of problems with the processing of their records, he said. Only 80 have reported problems so far this year...
...Defense Department??s response? That the military runs a “safe, humane, and professional detention operation at Guantanamo that is providing valuable information in the war on terror...
Members of Congress, academics around the country, and professors from Harvard were quick to debunk the State Department??s reasoning...
...real rationale is further exposed if one examines the State Department??s unfounded claim that, as Cuban government employees, none of the scholars had “distinguished him or herself for free thinking and for questioning anything the regime has said.” The facts disagree. Several of the scholars were invited to the LASA convention to present parts of a book they had co-written with two Harvard professors: John H. Coatsworth, director of Harvard’s David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, and Jorge I. Domínguez, director of the Weatherhead...
...such balanced content will not be pleasing to the Cuban voters Bush so desperately inklings to in Florida. Fidel Castro and the Cuban government—the supposed targets of the State Department??s actions—will remain unscathed by the decision. Regardless of what one thinks about the longstanding U.S. trade embargo on Cuba, it is clear that the State Department??s censorship of viewpoints is damaging to Americans who are deprived of their first amendment right to the free exchange of information. As Coatsworth said, “The only people really disadvantaged...