THEY SENT MOHAMMED ATTA A VISA after 9/11, but they were all over this woman.

I’d be more willing to spot the INS a few embarrassing failures with unthreatening people if I had confidence that they were at least doing a good job with the dangerous ones. But they’re planning to fingerprint people from some Arab countries — but leaving out visitors from Saudi Arabia, where 15 of the 19 hijackers came from. Note to the INS: When you do stuff like that, it’s hard to cut you slack for jumping all over a woman from . . . New Zealand.

UPDATE: Spoons has the best take on the non-Saudi fingerprinting issue: “Just think, if these measures had been in effect last September 11, the terrorists would have been four short!”

ANOTHER UPDATE: It’s even worse than that. Brian Erst points out something that I should have noticed but didn’t: none of the countries from which the 9/11 hijackers came is on the list for fingerprinting.