{"id":1452,"date":"2005-10-12T04:22:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-12T04:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=1452"},"modified":"2005-10-12T04:22:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-12T04:22:00","slug":"1452","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=1452","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>HOMELAND SECURITY-ING OUR WAY TO TECHNOLOGICAL BACKWARDNESS<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Post 9\/11 VISA restrictions, in order to avoid accusations of political incorrectness, are doing a bang-up job of encouraging people in the top tenth of 1 % of the Bell Curve with hard science PhDs to immigrate elsewhere or bypass positions at American universities. This is moronically self-defeating, given the importance of a continual inflow of said applicants to America&#8217;s R&amp;D edge and adds next to nothing to American security. Unless of course, you believe that A.Q. Khan is flying in next week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csis.org\/hs\/051005_whitepaper.pdf\">CSIS has a White Paper<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Blanket VISA procedures are no substitute for a functioning counterintelligence system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOMELAND SECURITY-ING OUR WAY TO TECHNOLOGICAL BACKWARDNESS Post 9\/11 VISA restrictions, in order to avoid accusations of political incorrectness, are doing a bang-up job of encouraging people in the top tenth of 1 % of the Bell Curve with hard science PhDs to immigrate elsewhere or bypass positions at American universities. This is moronically self-defeating, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}