We’ve discussed Janis Shinwari the former Afghan English teacher who became an interpreter for the US Army for the last seven years. Earlier this month, he was finally given his visa to move his family to the United States in order to shield them from retribution for his service to US soldiers. Then suddenly, a few days later he was told that his visa is on hold according to Yahoo News;
“From time to time, after a visa has been issued, new information will become available indicating that a person who has been issued a visa may not in fact be eligible for that visa,” a State Department official wrote in an email to Matt Zeller, a former Army captain who has been aggressively lobbying for Shinwari’s clearance.
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Zeller, a former CIA and military intelligence officer, told Yahoo News he believes a slanderous anonymous tip by the Taliban is the source of the government’s about-face.
“They used to call our U.S. Army base all the time in Afghanistan claiming all sorts of lies about our interpreters in an attempt to get us to fire them, ” Zeller wrote in an email to the State Department.
Zeller faults U.S. counterintelligence agencies for not vetting the validity of the information.
“They’ve known about him for years,” he says. “Total knee-jerk. That’s just dumb.”
Shinwari, who says he is on a Taliban hit list for helping U.S. forces, says he also wouldn’t put it past insurgents to try and interrupt his plans.
That’s what happens when a bunch of DC bureaucrat wienies in the State Department are responsible for something important. Lives are put in danger by their total disregard, and they’re tougher on our allies than they are on actual terrorists.
Thanks to Andy for the link.
idiots.
Oh, NOW I understand how people like Nidal Hassan and Aaron Alexis fall through the cracks. Incompetence at both ends of the spectrum is in full force.
Nice to see how my tax dollars are being wasted. I want my money back.
B. Hussein 0bama & Co., the terrorists’ friend and ally!
Wish the DC bureaucrats were that stringent about our Southern Border. Pretty much anybody can come in that way.
“That’s what happens when a bunch of DC bureaucrat wienies in the State Department are responsible for something important.” I guess this would also explain Benghazi, then?
I normally just lurk here, but this topic has hit home for me recently. My interpreter was wounded and I were wounded in an IED blast in May 2012. He lost a leg and one of his ears. I hadn’t heard anything from him in over a year and had no way of contacting him. Just last he popped up on my email looking for an endorsement from me for the special immigrant visa program for linguists. I gave him what he needed, but I know it is a long shot. This was his first interpreter job, and only our second mission. So he is a diasbled Afghan who will likely be stuck in that hole. What are his chances after December 14?
Then I read thing like this, and how long it took Dakota Meyer’s interpreter to get here (especially considering his actions) and think my guy has no chance. But we’ll allow anyone to cross our southern border, offer then sanctuary, give them government benefits, etc. when they have done nothing to earn it – all while basically writing off those who worked and fought by our sides.
Sorry for the rant. Thanks for letting me vent here.
If a slanderous anonymous tip was sent by the Taliban, this man is living on borrowed time. If the CIA gives a damn, they need to body-snatch him and his family, get them the hell out of there, and then sort the paperwork out.
Sometimes it’s necessary to get forgiveness rather than permission.
It is just like when the troops left Vietnam. The yards and anyone who helped the US was thrown under the departing bus. Why someone would assist the US in a time of war is beyond me, but most likely it is motivated by money and a better lifestyle for themselves and family in their country – while it lasts. We should take care of those who take of us.
Simple solution, fly them to Mexico, then bring them across the border. They will then qualify for amnesty and lots of bennies. Or is that only for Hispanic illegals?
Anyway, they would at least be safe while DC figures out the paperwork.
Explain to me again why anyone in the rest of the world should help us or trust anything we say to them? We f#ck our own troops out of benefits we promised them we f@ck our military retirees out of benefits we promised them, we’re about to f@ck everyone out of their social security….
If I were on the outside looking in I would suspect this entire nation to be filled with liars and thieves who promise everything and grant nothing based on the evidence as reported by our own government and our media.
Calling the useless turds in Congress to see if we can’t get this fixed ASAP and do the right thing by some one for a change.
There’s only one way this kind of crap can be fixed.
Start putting the ****sticks against a wall and shooting them dead while the rest of their fellow numbnuts watch.
This crap, and all the other bullshit that’s been going on, happens only because we allow it to. We sit on our hands and do nothing except whine about it all.
ok, let me get this straight. A man who risked his life helped our soldiers during a war and now needs to leave to prevent he and his family from being killed by those 11th Century Sand Monkey Jihadists has his visa pulled and 15 million illegal Mexicans squatting in our country are getting free schooling, drivers licenses and medical care?
If he is here he can avail himself of the federal court system, and should do so post haste. A stop at Fox news/ABC/NBC/CBS might help as well. Force state to back down just like their fearless leader does. Ass Hats times ten to the sixth.