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December 31, 2009 State Department changing visa proceduresPosted: 06:07 PM ET
The order comes in the wake of a failed Christmas Day attempt to blow up a U.S.-bound jetliner. The change was prompted by preliminary reviews ordered by President Obama of the terror attack. The reviews are due to the president by Thursday. A State Department official told CNN the information to be included in so-called "Visas VIPER cables" currently is not required by department guidelines. In the case of the attempted December 25 bombing, crucial information that the suspect - 23-year-old Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab - had a two-year multiple-entry visa was not relayed in the cables. Although other government departments could have accessed that information if they wanted to search State Department databases, they were not required to do so. Filed under: Larry King Live Terrorism
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