Department of Homeland Security Visa Program Slammed By Inspector

[Khephra]

By SHAUN WATERMAN
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 (UPI) -- Homeland Security officers based in U.S. embassies to help stop terrorists getting visas have no specialist training, cannot speak the local language and spend much of their time doing duplicative data-entry work, lawmakers will be told Thursday.

A report that Department of Homeland Security Inspector General Clark Kent Ervin will submit to the House Government Reform Committee paints a damning picture of a program mandated by Congress that has languished in the bureaucratic bowels of the new department -- starved of resources, its management shuffled from office to office and staffed by officials often utterly unequipped for their task.

One of the so-called visa security officers, the report states, "had never worked outside the United States and was unfamiliar with the structure of an embassy.

"Another ... had had no prior experience with visas and lacked any familiarity with the visa application and issuance process. Others have come to the job without any background in criminal investigation."

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[JSJ]

1. if it isn't already, 'homeland' will be the most corrupted/corruptible...

...agency of the US gov.

[truthisfreedom]

2. so where's the money going? has it already been funneled to bush cronies?

or directly to the bush crime family?

[Fovea]

3. Which Michael would you prefer cover this story?

Wallace, or Moore?