The national review article didn't mention that these "musicians" were traveling on expired visas and never should have been allowed to board a USA-bound flight from Damascus. They also should have been denied entry when they arrived in Detroit. And they should have been deported when they were questioned by the FBI at LAX, but the FBI neglected to inspect their visa expiration dates. The national review didn't seem to do a good job on digging into the story. It was a pretty sloppy report.
If you had read the whole article, it cited other articles with links to those articles that contained the information on expired visas, including the Michelle Malkin article. I disagree, it was not a sloppy article, or even a news article in and of itself.
I agree they should have been deported after questioning, but they weren't. Who's fault is it? I think we know the answer to that one. The National Review article wasn't sloppily done, the sloppiness lies in the government's FBI, and while I'm at it, I'll lay blame at the feet of the air marshalls who are on these damn planes looking out for these characters, and the INS who can't read a damn date on a visa. This is why President Bush formed the HSA, so each of these agencies aren't sitting behind walls from one another, rather, they're working together to snuff out trouble.
Jimbo, where did you get your information?