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Here are some exerpts from today's State Department press briefing with Ian Kelly.

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2009/dec/134213.htm

QUESTION: ...When did he get the visa?

MR. KELLY: It was June 16, I believe.

QUESTION: 2008?

MR. KELLY: 2008, yeah. And it was valid for two years. It was good till June 2010.

QUESTION: Can I ask a question about that? What was his stated reason on the visa for wanting to go to the United States?

MR. KELLY: We don’t talk about what’s on his application. But he --

QUESTION: You damn well better start talking about it because you’re about to have the hammer of God come down on your head.

MR. KELLY: Well, we understand there’ll be a lot of attention on this particular visa issuance. At the time that his visa was issued, there was nothing in his application nor in any database at the time that would indicate that he should not receive a visa. He was a student at a very reputable school. He had plenty of financial resources, so he was not an intending immigrant. There was no derogatory information about him last year – last June – that would indicate that he shouldn’t get a visa, so we issued the visa.

OK, so the terrorist nutjob from Nigeria didn't get the Visa under Hillary's watch. That's good to know.

MR. KELLY: Once he had the visa, once he got the visa in June of 2008, it goes into a system, a database that the counterterrorism community has access to and every consular officer here at the State Department and overseas has access to. The visa – the VISAS VIPER cable, it doesn’t require the embassy to report that the person has a visa. It requires them to report on the person’s name, date of birth, place of birth. If they have other information like passport information, they report that as well.

QUESTION: Do you know if --

MR. KELLY: But everybody has access to this database, or everybody who wanted to check could see that this individual had a visa.

QUESTION: Understood. Can you tell me if this cable did include his visa information?

MR. KELLY: Like I say --

QUESTION: Or that he had a visa even?

MR. KELLY: Like I say, it’s not up to the embassy --

QUESTION: I understand that. But can you just say in this case whether it was in there?

MR. KELLY: The Embassy in Abuja – I don’t believe that it did. And it’s not up to the Embassy in Abuja to report that he had a visa that was issued in London.

QUESTION: When you say “we” sent the cable, who exactly sends this cable?

MR. KELLY: Embassy Abuja sent the cable.

QUESTION: What is --

QUESTION: And sent it to who exactly?

MR. KELLY: It goes – it comes here to the State Department and it goes to the counterterrorism community and it goes to every --

QUESTION: Is that the National Counterterrorism Center, or when you say counterterrorism community, where does it – what’s the direct path?

MR. KELLY: It does go to the National Counterterrorism Center.

QUESTION: And how was it determined that there was insufficient evidence to revoke the visa? I mean, does --

MR. KELLY: That’s not a question for me. It’s a question for --

QUESTION: Right. But what I mean is the counterterrorism –

MR. KELLY: -- National Counterterrorism Center.

QUESTION: -- community, who is it that – the National Counterterrorism Center says – they say they’re not going to do anything, or they just don’t act on it and therefore that means there was insufficient evidence?

MR. KELLY: As I say, what we do is – it’s our responsibility to report this information when we get it. We reported it. And it’s – it would be up to the National Counterterrorism Center to make the determination whether to revoke this person’s visa or to take other action --

These are only short snippets from the press briefing. But I thought it was important to highlight these in case y'all come across some Republican or obot who tries to pin this on Hillary. Her agency did what it was supposed to do.

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They better not blame Hillary sounds like its the lefties asking these questions because they just want to blame Hillary.  The person who should have been blamed is Janet Napatano she is HomeLand Security they are the ones that dropped the ball.

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He is very busy passing the buck to the "Counterterrorism center" -- I bet they will never be called upon to explain their lousy inaction in the face of mounting bad karma gathering on one person.

Why can they not share what was on the visa application? Purpose is explicitly there on every visa application.  In a situation like this, it should be made known to public.. It is definitely an item of public interest at this point.  What are they doing? Giving him right to privacy??? Heck!!


-- Edited by Sanders on Wednesday 30th of December 2009 11:46:40 AM

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I just notice that the media is trying to pin this on Hillary but it is Janet's fault.  She is Homeland Security.  What the hell does she do all day?

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