The Obama administration is secretly planning to lift a decades-long
ban on Libyans coming to the United States to work in aviation
maintenance, flight operations or train in nuclear science, according to
an internal Homeland Security document.
Two federal lawmakers—Congressman Bob Goodlatte of Virginia and Jason
Chaffetz of Utah—expressed outrage over the administration’s covert
plan after obtaining a draft of the final regulation this week. Besides
appearing on the State Department’s list of terrorist sponsoring nations
for years, Libya is still a terrorism hotbed fresh in American minds
after last fall’s Benghazi massacre.
Ambassador Christopher Stevens, the first diplomat to be killed
overseas in decades, and three other Americans were murdered by Islamic
militants in the September 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. Special Mission
in Benghazi, Libya. Judicial Watch has been a leader in investigating
the Benghazi attack, filing a multitude of public records requests and
litigation in federal court. Read JW’s two in-depth reports on Benghazi here and here.
It’s incomprehensible that the U.S. government is even considering
reversing the longstanding policy banning Libyans from working or
training in areas so crucial to national security. The prohibition was
put in place in the 1980s after a wave of terrorist incidents involving
Libyans. Among them is the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie,
Scotland and the bombing of a French airliner, UTA flight 772, which
went down over Niger.
The Obama administration justifies lifting the Libyan work ban by
claiming the United States’ relationship with Libya has been
“normalized,” according to an announcement posted
on Congressman Chaffetz’s official House website. However, the terror
threat continues and a number of news reports document recent
terror-related stories coming from Libya, the statement points out. The
administration is putting Americans in harm’s way by lifting the
“security ban on a country that has become a hotbed of terrorist
activity,” the Utah Republican says.
Goodlatte, the House Judiciary Committee Chairman, expressed shock
that the administration is ignoring the terrorist threats that still
exist in Libya today.
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