After more than a month of being detained by authorities, Sam LaHood will be allowed to leave Egypt's borders. We're guessing he's going to head straight home, to the old U.S. of A.
It looks like the U.S. embassy in Cairo saw the writing on the wall last week when American N.G.O. workers were stopped from leaving the country, and will now open its doors for workers to hide out for fear of a government crackdown.
The son of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood got stopped when he tried to board a plane out of Cairo, apparently because Egyptian authorities are still trying to decide whether a non-governmental organization he runs there broke the law.
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