The Washington Times reports that nearly a dozen Iraqi military and law-enforcement officials brought to the U.S. as part of special intelligence and training programs have run away and are seeking asylum in this country or disappeared altogether.
Representative Lamar Smith of Texas, ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, says the national security implications are serious and the Bush administration must do more to ensure that those brought to the U.S. are properly accounted for. Really? Does he expect Bush to move on that with the same sense of urgency he has displayed securing our borders?
Smith has not received answers to questions he sent to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff in December 2006. He asked who the Iraqi military and law-enforcement officials are, whether an investigation was being conducted and how many Iraqi nationals have fled from military installations in the U.S. So, a year after asking what seems to be a very straight forward and logical question, he is still waiting for a reply. Chertoff obviously seems to think he isn't accountable to the American people or he doesn't know the answers.
The documented failings of the government to control who enters this nation has to make you wonder how many instances there are that we are unaware of. No one trustworthy or even capable seems to be in charge.
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