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...commission found that the CIA shares some of the FBI's recessive genes: 18 months passed between the time the agency was told that hijacker Khalid al-Midhar had obtained a U.S. visa and the time the CIA put his name and that of his traveling companion, also a hijacker, on a government watch list. Tenet told his top managers in 1998 that the CIA was "at war" with bin Laden, but the word never really filtered down through the agency, much less to other arms of the intelligence community. The CIA had follow-through problems. The German government gave...
...Nawaf al-Hazmi arrive in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, with Khallad bin Attash; they stay with Yazid Sufaat. Suspecting that al-Midhar and al-Hazmi are al-Qaeda members, the CIA monitors them there. From a third country, the CIA learns that al-Midhar's passport contains a U.S. visa. After a few days, the three men leave for Bangkok, where Thai intelligence agents lose them...
...jumbo jets. His teachers discover he has almost no flight knowledge but wants to train on the 747 simulator. The manager reports Moussaoui's suspicious behavior to the local FBI office. Agents question Moussaoui and then have the INS arrest him for staying too long without a visa...
Yang was tried in Chinese court last August on charges of espionage and visa violations. A verdict was supposed to be issued by December...
...letter, Summers proposed a number of strategies the U.S. government could use to relax the visa requirements for students from foreign countries like China. He suggested that the government implement the State Department’s new proposal to give priority to students scheduling immigration-related appointments. He also wrote in his letter that the government should consider creating “timeframes for the adjudication of visa application,” appoint an ombudsperson within the State Department to help universities with speciality visa cases, allow university students security clearances, and conduct “comprehensive background checks...