Good idea! I knew there had to be more to the story last night. The guy just looked too smarmy on his facebook page for any level of comfort.
I don’t see any “more to the story”. Consular visits are routine. We have consular officials visit each and every US citizen jailed abroad, no matter how worthless and guilty we know they are. And if you bother to read between the lines here, you’ll see that the jailed Qatari terrorist was being given a 5-star snub. Anybody the Qatari government gave a crap about would get a visit from responsible and fairly senior member of the consular staff. This jailee got the stupid young kid who sneaks smokes in airplane lavatories and “jokes” about having a shoe bomb to authorities on the plane. Since Stupid-Young-Kid didn’t quite make it all the way to the jail, they’ll have to send somebody else now, like maybe the janitor.