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U.S. Official Who Issued Visas to 9/11 Hijackers Still Works for State Department
2016-04-21
[PJ] The State Department official who issued visas to many of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists is still employed by the federal government, according to J. Michael Springmann, the author of Visas for al-Qaeda: CIA Handouts That Rocked the World.

Springmann, former head of the visa section at the U.S. Consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, told PJM that Shayna Steinger approved 11 of the visas granted to the 19 9/11 hijackers. Fifteen received their visas at the Jeddah consulate.

Page 7 of the 9/11 Commission report states that "one consular officer issued visas to 11 of the 19 hijackers." Those visas were reportedly approved between the years 1999 and 2001.

Springmann, an attorney who no longer works for the federal government, learned the State Department commissioned Steinger as a class four foreign service officer in 1999, which he said is "a high rank for someone hired just out of Columbia University with no prior experience."

"Despite her issuing visas to terrorists and giving equivocal answers to the 9/11 Commission, Steinger is still an FSO," Springmann wrote in his book.
One must wonder given the obvious threat, if Ms. Steinger was acting at the behest of others.
She was appointed and confirmed by the Senate under the Clinton administration in 1999 as Shayna Steinger Singh in the Congressional Record, Volume 145.
Have the infamous 9/11 '28 pages' been leaked ?
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