The way embassies work is that the main embassy deals with routine business with the host government.
The consulate portion deals with boring stuff like passports and visas.
The CIA folks (presumably undercover) have a separate operation—usually in a secure area of the embassy closed to everyone else—for obvious reasons.
Normally they are three very separate operations.
This is why some folks might be a bit skeptical of CIA involvement in issuing visas. That does not mean it is impossible—just that there would need to be strong evidence to support it.
It’s very close to the truth he rubber stamped those visas in some way....
So either stunning incompetence or something else.
And then he goes on to become chief of the CIA.
You can see why some people’s eyebrows might be raised !
Certainly not where I was - half our building was host country military, our military was the other half and the spooks were in the basement.
All Brennan had to do was make a call to the Consular General’s office to have the visas issued. Would have been quite easy.