[FreeReign]

sundance implied he was fired, not for the contents of the memo, but for going outside the chain of command. That sort of thing is pretty important to military folks.

So Higgins should have sent the memo to the person he was complaining about?

[ManHunter]

Good point! To add to your point, the NSC is NOT the military and it used to be that opposing points of view were welcome in NSC discussions. (I participated in quite a number of them some years ago and no one was ever fired for a dissenting opinion or for taking an “unpopular” stance.)

I wonder, however, why no mention of the dismissal of K.T. McFarland as Deputy NSA back in April? I had a few discussions with her several years ago and I was extremely impressed with her in-depth command of details on a broad range of foreign policy topics, including terrorism.