{"id":37711,"date":"2013-09-25T06:50:21","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T10:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37711"},"modified":"2013-09-25T06:50:21","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T10:50:21","slug":"janis-shinwaris-visa-pulled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37711","title":{"rendered":"Janis Shinwari\u2019s visa pulled"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/a>;<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom 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,\u201d a State Department official wrote in an email to Matt Zeller, a former Army captain who has been aggressively lobbying for Shinwari\u2019s clearance.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

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\u2019s about-face.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey 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, \u201d Zeller wrote in an email to the State Department.<\/p>\n

Zeller faults U.S. counterintelligence agencies for not vetting the validity of the information.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve known about him for years,\u201d he says. \u201cTotal knee-jerk. That\u2019s just dumb.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shinwari, who says he is on a Taliban hit list for helping U.S. forces, says he also wouldn\u2019t put it past insurgents to try and interrupt his plans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Andy for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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