[wizardoz]

"a cabal between the vice president of the United States, Richard Cheney, and the secretary of defense, Donald Rumsfeld, on critical issues that made decisions that the bureaucracy did not know were being made.''

WHAT?? You mean the people at the top were actually making decisions without your permission?? OMG!! This is outrageous! The leaders are actually... leading!!

Well, you can't blame some of them for being shocked. They've never seen that done before.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

"Never allowing the experts, the people who understand the region to have a say."

The condescension of Risen and the career employees whose case he pleads is breathtaking.

These people "understand the region" so well that over the course of the presidencies they let Iran and Afghanistan fall to murderous mullahs, and let Al-Qaeda run rampant, leading to 9/11.