Thomas P. Carroll's sentence reduced for selling U.S. visas in Guyana

"A former State Department official caught selling hundreds of visas out of the U.S. Embassy in Guyana was re-sentenced on Friday to six and a half years in federal prison. Thomas P. Carroll, 36, showed no emotion as U.S. District Judge Blanche M. Manning, acting on orders from a federal appeals court, chopped almost 15 years off of his earlier sentence. “There is no doubt that his conduct was very serious,” Manning said. But she bowed to the appeals court, which said the 21-year sentence she imposed on him in June 2002 was too tough. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said in October 21 years was “draconian” and the former Foreign Service officer should have gotten no more than seven years and three months."

In a time like this, should this guy's penalty have been reduced? How many terrorists did this guy possibly let in?