Time and bandwidth cannot suffice to express the utter disdain and loathing that deserves to be heaped upon the State Department (where to begin? You start off with "nobody lost China" and even that takes an infinite amount of time to do justice to). Why they've been spared in the aftermath of 9/11 is beyond me - the INS was broken up over letting terrorists into the country, but it was the State Department that gave them Visas!!!!
The story about the story is even shadier: Young, starry eyed conservative activist goes to work for NRO. Young, starry eyed conservative activist does a little digging, uncovering a cable conclusively proving that those duplicitous Arabists at Foggy Bottom are so drunk from all the oil money that they've drinking for the last half a century that they gave visas to 14 Saudis very interested in flight school rather than offend Our Friends the Saudis. Young, starry eyed conservative activist is detained by 8 burly large men and asked to give up his source. Hilarity fails to ensue.