Dick Cheney was talking about Gitmo when he said he was afraid that the nation’s new management would make the country less safe. But it doesn’t end there; the State Department is relaxing the tougher visa procedures that were instituted in the wake of the “Visa Express” program in Saudi Arabia issuing visas to the 9/11 hijackers–visas that should have been refused on simple immigration-control grounds, even apart from security concerns. As one of my analysts writes, “The Bureau of Consular Affairs has decided to allow posts to waive the interview requirement for applicants who are applying to renew temporary visas. The move represents a return to the reckless assembly line corner-cutting mentality that facilitated the entry of the 9/11 terrorists.” (Reporting in NR exposed Visa Express and led to the end of the program–at least for a while.)