Visa-Free Travel Expanded by Homeland Security

The Department of Homeland Security announced proudly on March 17 that three former Eastern bloc nations - Slovakia, Hungary, and Lithuania - have entered into a memorandum of understanding allowing visa-free travel to and from those countries and the United States. Which would be cool for international travelers - if the electronic measures to be employed are light years ahead of the United States' own system for monitoring who comes and goes on airplanes and who the potential terrorists are.